<p>hello y'all. i've been put on the waitlist for columbia. i really, REALLY want to go, so i'm willing to do watever it takes to get accepted.</p>
<p>i've heard that you should email the admissions office, or something like that. also, there's that supplementary essay that we have to fill out. anything special that should go on that, or is that kind of like your commonapp essay?</p>
<p>i konw this has probably been discussed somewhere else, but i was unable to find it...</p>
<p>157 views and not a single reply?</p>
<p>duuuuuude…</p>
<p>1 page letter explaining your continued interest and desire to stay on the waitlist, perhaps wait a few more weeks to ruminate on this (columbia wont be going to the waitlist till early May at best) and gives you time to word it correctly also to add any awards you might have earned in the meantime.</p>
<p>that’s really all you should do (no more or no less, it gives them enough to see you a) want to go to columbia, b) are able to follow the waitlist rules.)</p>
<p>My D is on the Columbia waitlist. Any idea of how generous they are with grants/scholarship money for the people that are accepted from the waitlist? She was accepted by NYU, but their financial aid just wasn’t enough for it to happen. :(</p>
<p>@admissionsgeek: Thanks for the reply! Just to clarify, I should send in that one page long essay, and nothing more, right? Should updates on awards/ECs be sent via email or should they be mentioned in that same essay?</p>
<p>same essay for updates and interests, one page max if you can. if let’s say something happens in mid may and you want to update them more, that’s also a time you can maybe send a brief email. but in general, consolidate as much info as you can to that one - one page letter.</p>
<p>you can both mail or e-mail that letter, columbia doesn’t hold a preference for one or the other (i know some students think that mail is more ‘intimate,’ but columbia digitizes everything so it doesn’t necessarily matter either way.</p>
<p>also waitlisted at Columbia.
where should we send it to? what address? what email address?
thanks</p>
<p>emails should be sent to your regional admissions officer.</p>
<p>The e-mail won’t help you get accepted. I think the moment you sent your application before January was the decisive time. Columbia won’t choose a less qualified candidate out of the waitlist because he/she has shown interest. They look at your academic performance just like in the normal application assessment. What you can do now is hope for the best. Good Luck.</p>
<p>misinformed post gedion.</p>
<p>columbia really looks for students to send something to affirm their interest again because the worst thing is to admit someone off the waitlist that doesn’t want to go. it doesn’t need to be a pleading letter, but a pleasant explanation of their continued interest and any new updates.</p>
<p>sure it isn’t what will admit the student, but it is what columbia asks for in their waitlist decision letter. hence it is what the student should do.</p>