<p>^WhiteWishes</p>
<p>Columbia is, by no means, “far less” selective than Yale. It is, as of last year, comparable. </p>
<p>Overall, last year Columbia admitted 6.9%
(19.5% ED)
Yale admitted 7.4%
(14.5% SCEA)</p>
<p>Obviously an ED gives you more of an edge than a SCEA, so the two are essentially equal.</p>
<p>aughhh I was pretty calm too until yesterday hit. I don’t live in a very good school district, so all I saw were rejections (not even deferrals). A friend (who is an excellent student in every way) got rejected from Penn today… T__T my chances are minuscule to none. I ended up watching YT videos of people recording themselves being accepted/rejected and it freaked me out…I don’t know how in the world I’m going to survive another week of school.</p>
<p>^Talking about school…I have been coasting through it severely over the course of the last week…</p>
<p>I hate waiting. Officially.
I had forgotten about my application until this week and life was wonderful.</p>
<p>Imagine getting deferred and then waitlisted? :D</p>
<p>me too. I was like -I feel nothing my emotions are dead- and then yesterday happened. And today. School has been easy for the past week (AP Bio has just been doing labs) but next week it’s like a minefield of tests and quizzes.
…
I don’t even want to imagine what that feels like. Getting deferred already feels like a death sentence T___T</p>
<p>My friend applied to Duke ED and got an e-mail saying they were releasing decisions on the 14th instead… Man I am so jealous :(</p>
<p>The Stanford EA’s are freaking out right now. That’s us in less than 6 days</p>
<p>reading that forum makes me want to smash something. so. many. deferrals/rejections.</p>
<p>LOL I agree, the Penn ED thread has made me lose just about all hope. So many 35 ACT/4.0 people rejected and deferred.</p>
<p>…that’s my score/gpa too. ;u; there goes that little flame of hope.</p>
<p>All of my friends have gotten into school–Penn, Cornell, Columbia, northwestern, and wash U. So jealous!</p>
<p>The only people at my school who have gotten in so far are athletes. One footballer and one soccer player to Columbia. Yep, my school is amazing at sports but not so much academics…</p>
<p>And I checked the Stanford thread right when it came out and apparently they waited til like 5 minutes after to send. That would be the worst…</p>
<p>I went to a summer program at Penn, and yesterday a girl I met there posted on Facebook that she’d gotten into Columbia. And today a guy (also met there) said he got into Penn. I’m officially freaking out.</p>
<p>Yup, I know two friends who have over 100 likes on their facebook status about their Columbia acceptance. </p>
<p>I have no idea how I am going to get through another week of waiting. Though I certainly don’t have a shortage of things to do (boatload of tests next week, other application deadlines), none of them can truly get my mind off of this…</p>
<p>My sister applied early to Yale too for law school. We’re both watching Christmas specials and checking our computers every few seconds, even though my decision comes out in a week…THIS IS TORTUREEEEE!!!</p>
<p>One of my best friends got into Dartmouth today! And one of my other friends got into Stanford. Both completely deserved it, and I’m so freaking genuinely happy for them haha I thought it would make me more nervous, but it hasn’t. In about a week though I’m sure I’ll be freaking out though haha</p>
<p>6 days left guys!!!</p>
<p>everyone is getting in at my school! i’m freaking out! 1 Cornell, 1 Dartmouth, 1 Penn, 1 Stanford so far…</p>
<p>Five days…</p>
<p>wow you all have been talking for a long time! I just found out about this and it feels so nice to know that I am not freaking out by myself! Any suggestions on how to distract yourself?</p>
<p>hahaah @Allnighter</p>
<p>my friend’s Columbia status had over 200 likes… this is getting crazy.</p>
<p>and i second the question, how are you supposed to distract yourself for another week?</p>