2008-2009 Columbia College of P&S Secondary Application Thread

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MightyChip26 said:
"Just live your life!"

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😍One of the few rappers I can look at straight on. 😀
 
scarletgirl777 said:
Yeah, the countdown is just a little intimidating. And I don't care where T.I. got his MD, he can be MY doctor. 😀
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haha ok. if everyone wants me to stop, I will. I'm just invested in it now but I can control the urge.
 
yep, the problem with countdowns is they always seem to get excruciatingly slower as the numbers tick down...🙂

I'm much happier neglecting the date and letting it creep up on me.
 
also that date is just an estimated date right? maybe should be 8 days +/- 4 days
 
More like +4 days. Everyone should hear by next Saturday...March 7
 
By which you mean a week from this coming Saturday, February 28th?
 
So the tension is mounting 🙂

Let's all hope the SDN acceptance ratio is high 👍
 
How exactly are you all calculating how long the mail will get to you via priority versus first class mail? I can't seem to find the area on the usps website. Anyone?
 
This assumes that they get them sent out by 5 P.M. though. Is that likely?
 
Last year someone said they saw the USPS truck loading up dolly loads of mail from P&S admissions, so I would think the USPS would pick them up during normal business hours and get them to the post office in time to ship them out.
 
MightyChip26 said:
haha ok. if everyone wants me to stop, I will. I'm just invested in it now but I can control the urge.
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Nah, keep going with the countdown. I like it - but I am getting more on edge with each passing day.

Bradstein said:
More like +4 days. Everyone should hear by next Saturday...March 7
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I really hope I hear by March 5th. I'm leaving in the wee hours of March 6th to go on a medical mission trip out of the country and I won't be back until March 12th!

Bradstein said:
Yeah. I think they'll start mailing stuff out Friday, February 28. Same as last year.
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I hope so. :xf: :luck: Good luck everyone! :scared:
 
Just wanted to wish everyone good luck! I remember being in your exact situation last year, checking my mail and this thread every . . . oh 15 minutes or so. Couldn't be happier with how things turned out. Columbia's definitely worth the stress it caused me
 
I dreamt about waiting for/receiving mail from Columbia. :scared:
 
timcheng00 said:
Just wanted to wish everyone good luck! I remember being in your exact situation last year, checking my mail and this thread every . . . oh 15 minutes or so. Couldn't be happier with how things turned out. Columbia's definitely worth the stress it caused me
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So were you accepted in the initial round or were you waitlisted and then accepted?

Druzie said:
I dreamt about waiting for/receiving mail from Columbia. :scared:
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Me too! 😆 I'm getting so nervous.... 1 week left!
 
7 days 🙂

will decisions be mailed this week?!
 
chad5871 said:
Does anybody know what order our files are typically reviewed in? Is it sequential by the date we interviewed?

Did the adcom start meeting today?
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Just called the admissions office. they said the AdCom is meeting this week but refused to say what day. If they're sending out acceptances on Friday, they're definitely not reviewing them then. So my guess is anywhere from today through thursday. They probably don't review all the applications on one day right? I am guessing they do it over the course of at least two days. So hey, they might be meeting today to discuss your file. Someone who's really buddy-buddy with their interviewer should call him/her and see if they'll divulge more information on the process. 😀
 
Poor admissions office, they're probably getting bombarded with phone calls...

My guess is they probably space it out, but the inner workings of the admissions office doesn't make too much of a difference in the long run...for all we know, they've already met. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference, unless it makes us feel good to know what day the adcom is discussing our fate...all we know is we should expect to hear sometime next week.

Good luck!

PS: I agree, the green countdown looks much less intimidating...but still causes a knot in my stomach, lol.
 
StPlayrXtreme said:
Poor admissions office, they're probably getting bombarded with phone calls...

My guess is they probably space it out, but the inner workings of the admissions office doesn't make too much of a difference in the long run...for all we know, they've already met. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference, unless it makes us feel good to know what day the adcom is discussing our fate...all we know is we should expect to hear sometime next week.

Good luck!

PS: I agree, the green countdown looks much less intimidating...but still causes a knot in my stomach, lol.
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Yeah, I know it doesn't make much of a difference but I was just curious...

timcheng00 said:
I got in off the waitlist in early May
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Congratulations! Did you send a LOI before the initial decision? Any advice for those of us who REALLY want to go P&S?
 
Last week of waiting! It's been 5 months for me...
 
chad5871 said:
Yeah, I know it doesn't make much of a difference but I was just curious...
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Ha, yeah, definitely...of course secretly I kind of want to know, and on the other hand I'm trying not to think about it too much.

I should fool myself into believing that it's still January? I could just flip all my calendars back, haha...if only that would work, lol.
 
chad5871 said:
It's been almost 5 months for me too. When did you interview? I interviewed on 10/8. It's a long wait but it's worth it if the news is good!
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It's been so long I don't even remember the exact date lol. Back sometime in mid-October. Yup, Columbia is the last school I have left to hear from, it's been a journey!
 
Interviewed in mid-Nov. here...still waiting for a few schools, not to mention I have two interviews left to go to!

Still, Columbia is #1!
 
Mid Nov. here also...
 
are they finished for interviews?
 
I'm getting so nervous. My fate could already be decided by now! :scared: I just want to know.

I'm trying to figure out which wait has been worse: waiting for Columbia's decision or waiting for my MCAT score...
 
chad5871 said:
I'm getting so nervous. My fate could already be decided by now! :scared: I just want to know.

I'm trying to figure out which wait has been worse: waiting for Columbia's decision or waiting for my MCAT score...
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Waiting for my MCAT score was pretty bad. I fell off my bike on the day of the score release, trying to bike to a building that had a computer.

The score was released late.

🙁
 
I was about to take a Microbiology exam and checked SDN right before the test and saw scores were up ...was in such a hurry to leave ended up leaving 5 questions blank on a multiple choice exam 👍
 
so i just spoke to my premed advisor who just visited columbia last summer. he said he might be mistaken but that he thinks Columbia ACTUALLY reviews interviewees in two major waves. since i interviewed in October, he said that my fate might have been decided a while ago. he said he doubts any school would wait until the week before decisions to review all 1,000 interviewees. could this be true?
 
Seems reasonable. They would barely remember you at this point!
 
That makes sense, but...

does that mean that Chad's and my letters didn't make a difference? Did we send them after our fates were decided?

Drat.
 
Druzie said:
That makes sense, but...

does that mean that Chad's and my letters didn't make a difference? Did we send them after our fates were decided?

Drat.
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hm idk. you bring up a good point about the letters. maybe my premed advisor is wrong? this is just torture.
 
Druzie said:
That makes sense, but...

does that mean that Chad's and my letters didn't make a difference? Did we send them after our fates were decided?

Drat.
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maybe it earned you a second look just in case?
 
ar2388 said:
maybe it earned you a second look just in case?
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Here's hoping. :xf:

Torture. Absolute torture.

Speaking of which, I'm going to attempt to take my mind off of it by making my bf see "Confessions of a Shopaholic" with me. :meanie: Sometimes a girl needs to do something absolutely ridiculous and silly and shameful for herself!
 
MightyChip26 said:
so i just spoke to my premed advisor who just visited columbia last summer. he said he might be mistaken but that he thinks Columbia ACTUALLY reviews interviewees in two major waves. since i interviewed in October, he said that my fate might have been decided a while ago. he said he doubts any school would wait until the week before decisions to review all 1,000 interviewees. could this be true?
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Yeah, if this is true (and it honestly makes a lot of sense that it would be true) and LOIs are therefore useless, this is just more proof that even current students don't necessarily understand the admissions process...
 
I'd like to think my letter was scrutinized by everyone on the adcom who loved it and loved me. I wouldn't worry too much about letters or that the students don't know how things work. I don't see why everyone would say the same thing if it weren't true.
 
Bradstein said:
I'd like to think my letter was scrutinized by everyone on the adcom who loved it and loved me. I wouldn't worry too much about letters or that the students don't know how things work. I don't see why everyone would say the same thing if it weren't true.
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People believe a lot of things that aren't true...but there's no point thinking about it now, they're probably printing decision letters as we speak--er, type.
 
Druzie said:
That makes sense, but...

does that mean that Chad's and my letters didn't make a difference? Did we send them after our fates were decided?

Drat.
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I certainly hope this is not true - I agonized over wording those letters perfectly. If it is true, I'm going to kick myself for not writing my letters sooner, although I did mention that "there is no place I'd rather attend than Columbia" in my thank you notes.

If they do review us in two major waves, wouldn't that make it slightly non-rolling? Unless they allocate a certain number of acceptances to each "wave" then those reviewed in the first wave would certainly have an advantage of those reviewed in the second.

scarletgirl777 said:
Yeah, if this is true (and it honestly makes a lot of sense that it would be true) and LOIs are therefore useless, this is just more proof that even current students don't necessarily understand the admissions process...
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I just don't see how this could be true. I have heard from SO many people that Dean Frantz places such a huge emphasis on LOIs...

Maybe they do an "initial post-interview review" of applicants who interviewed in the fall, and then do a quick re-review with the second wave of applicants (where they'd address LOIs and update letters, etc.) and make final decisions then. Honestly I think this would make more sense for a non-rolling school. Also, if they're going to review us in two waves, why not release acceptances in two waves. I'm skeptical... :/
 
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