<p>What are you turning down to attend Columbia?</p>
<p>Stanford. Hope I made the right choice.</p>
<p>You rejected Stanford!??!?! Sacrilege! Hehe.</p>
<p>Had I been accepted to every college, I would have still gone for Columbia. It really has everything I want in a College. I can't wait to start!</p>
<p>Harvard, among others. I am looking forward to being at Columbia.</p>
<p>Brown, Caltech...</p>
<p>berkeley and ucla engineering. couldnt resist columbia, just too yummy</p>
<p>yum yum for my tum tum! (Such a pointless post)</p>
<p>I turned down Columbia (and some bogus "scholarship"). I was disappointed in the institution as it also accepted someone I knew who had SAT 400's CR, no APs, and very basic math. Also, a couple of girls got into Barnard and they'd never been in any of the higher level courses at my school, so when they announced to me that we'd be "in the same school" I made other plans.</p>
<p>LOL, I hope that's a joke, because anyone who bases his/her decision on other ppl is plain well... stupid. Notice that I didn't call you stupid so don't flame me about this. Your whole story sounds so weird that I have to assume that you're from NYU.</p>
<p>The school experience is about what YOU are getting out of Columbia, not who else attends....plus, what's wrong with a student that might not have the perfect scores? Perhaps they show great leadership qualities or has a characteristic Columbia seek to create more diversity. I'm just guessing.</p>
<p>Sort of unrelated, though apropos of the above comment: Barnard is ridiculously easy to get into, about three times as easy as Columbia statistically-speaking. The university should sever its ties with Barnard unless it wants to allow a group of women who were not talented enough to gain admission to the Ivy League to continue to claim they went to an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>That said, this is not the thread for a Barnard discussion.</p>
<p>Boy, the Barnard-CU discussion is getting so old. Most ppl don't mind the affiliation, so maybe we can just stop debating it.</p>
<p>Just look at the regualr decision thread and you can see the amazing stats that most who were accepted had. I know of many who were accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton but rejected by Columbia. Columbia was one of the hardest ivys to get into this year.</p>
<p>I would have rejected every school in favor of Columbia. Hence why I applied ED.</p>
<p>Let's be honest with ourselves. Some of the MANY reasons why one elects to attend a specific college are the quality of the student body and the prestige of the institution. The former impacts on the quality of education, and the latter gives one a sense of validation and can have an influence on grad. school and/or employment prospects. Moreover, from an admittedly somewhat petty standpoint, if you've worked hard throughout school - hard enough to get into so-called prestige instits. - having students who have not worked that hard, or who have not achieved quite the same levels of distinction, being admitted to the same instits., or ultimately getting the same degree, is annoying.
Yeah Columbia has admitted some kids with amazing stats., but they've also admitted kids whose stats. are mediocre to miserable. I know, I know, political correctness. So I guess I have to say it's "wonderful," and be thrilled with the intellectual "diversity" Columbia is offering me. Not.
I know these ridiculous policies are embraced by all colleges but I think it would be better if colleges did NOT select students of such varying abilities from the same high school. That way, the achievement of getting into a place like Columbia would not appear to be compromised or undermined. </p>
<p>And then there's the issue of all those very qualified applicants who've been rejected. But that's a very dead horse. Meritocracy is dead. It's all about politics.</p>
<p>"..... but they've also admitted kids whose stats. are mediocre to miserable." </p>
<p>What school hasn't?????????????????</p>
<p>i cant believe you are so elitist as to worry about a handful of students being accepted who are below your "intellectual capacity". honestly im glad you are choosing a different school because you sound better suited to go somewhere like princeton.</p>
<p>im not even going to argue over how your barnard statements are completely unfounded, have fun wherever you go tho</p>
<p>I'm sure he'll be happy at whichever more elitist institution he chooses, because they obviously choose no underqualified students.</p>
<p>I think it's because Columbia knows they're dealing with humans, not numbers. This is a perfect example of humanizing the admissions process. I applaude Columbia for being able to look beyond the digits. </p>
<p>Obviously, sometimes Columbia makes mistake in judging character as we can already see...</p>
<p>Random:
They should be able to look beyond digits, but not past them. Sometimes I think adcomms forget this.</p>