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No, they don't have a status website or anything... They send an e-mail once you're app is complete or if they find out that you're missing something. However, it can take a while to get this e-mail.
hey lovelyMD, do u by any chance remember what the delay was from when u submitted your application (with the picture and stuff) to when u got that complete email? sorry, im just trying to get a ballpark feel of when i might be hearing back from columbia...thanks!
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They're really bad about emailing on their own- I submitted on 07/09 and never heard anything from them, so I actually emailed them yesterday, asking if there was anything missing because I hadn't heard from them in oh...two months. I got a reply within a couple of hours saying I was complete. If you have any doubts, I'd say just shoot them an email.
I submitted my secondary on 8/28 (LORs were in before then), and I was marked as complete on 9/17. I actually called them on 9/14 to find out if I was complete and they said they are going in order of when your secondary was submitted. If it has been a long time since you submitted your secondary, perhaps you should give them a call.
Agreed.. I submitted everything for Columbia in early August (around the 5th)? including the photo form, etc... I called them a month later to ask if they had received the form, and they said yes, and we'll contact you when things are updated. I was finally sent a completion e-mail on 9/27 saying my application was now ready for review. Almost 2 months! 🙁
Why are some places so delayed??? I really hope this doesn't affect our chances of admission (b/c of interview lateness, seats filling up etc).
Why are some places so delayed??? I really hope this doesn't affect our chances of admission (b/c of interview lateness, seats filling up etc).
Columbia doesn't have rolling admissions, so delayed completion doesn't affect your chances of admission. I actually forgot to send the photo until they reminded me, so I wasn't complete until the end of September (even though the rest of my secondary was in around early July). Still got in.
Good luck to those waiting to hear.
Good luck to those waiting to hear.
