OFFICIAL COLUMBIA COUNTDOWN THREAD

This forum made possible through the generous support of SDN members, donors, and sponsors. Thank you.
congrats SMW!!!!! sorry E'01 but you still have hope at hopkins right?

SMW I can totally understand...I was in shock I got the interview and now we actually got in!!!!! Hopefully I will finally get to meet you (and accept_me, scooby, alice, epogen, figure five, grasshopper, synite, moonlight, modemduck, gobearsgo, word AND CHOKER!! I've decided that I must have gotten in on the non-book worm component particularly since I spend all my time on this site!
 
Congrats SMW!!!!!!! :clap: 😀 🙂 <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" /> :clap: 😀 😛 <img border="0" alt="[Wowie]" title="" src="graemlins/wowie.gif" />
 
E'01-
I haven't received my reject letter today but I called this morning and the admissions lady confirmed the worst...ahhh, I don't understand...the whole process was going well and then SMACK--two post-interview rejections in the same week (my first). Ouch.

I hope the future holds a reversal of this rather unpleasant trend.

Please Duke/Yale/Penn...I need 'ya!
:wink:
 
Thanks, everyone. 🙂

E'01 and GG16, I'm sorry to hear that. 🙁 Good luck with the rest of your apps!!
 
Thank you the empathy and best wishes everyone 🙂 Well CG my interview was crappy so I certainly wasn't expecting anything positive to come of it. But I'm still holding out for Yale (no interview yet) and Cornell's final decision on me!

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade so let's partayy! - Well I'll watch - :wink:
 
Any word yet on the total number people on the waitlist?
 
GG16 were you there on october 3rd I think it was? Are you the musician dude??
 
Actually gg were you there on dec 13?
 
Hey E'01,

I was the musician dude 🙂 I got waitlisted, but I don't think Columbia was really for me.
 
I JUST GOT REJECTED!!!!!!!!!!!
 
bump.....

what an epic thread about columbia....
 
for a brief summary....

-people began getting acceptance offers on 2/15 of last year
-acceptances are the first batch that they send out, followed by waitlists, and rejections a few days later
-acceptance letters come via priority mail
-interviewers find out if an applicant has been accepted and some will call to inform the applicant
 
man, just skimming the title of this thread makes my heart race. whatever, i'm going to prepare for the worst.
 
hey! my baby lives!

wow, what a weird thing to relive.
 
Originally posted by choker
hey! my baby lives!

wow, what a weird thing to relive.

yeah, but fun. Good luck to all who are waiting!! 🙂
 
28 days
a lunar month
tick tock
 
getting warmer 25 days
 
argh, I must have too much free time - I just sat and read the whole thing! It was kind of like a daytime soap 😉

I guess this is going to be us going through the same thing in 4 weeks 🙁 darn it I had managed not to think about it till now!!
 
hehe boy wonder
i read the whole thing too. i am spending more time dinking around on this site than is healthy or sane. I just learned about it at a med school interview and its pretty neat.

i worry about admission often, i feel like i have my heart really set on it, and I have been dedicated to it and I just want something to happen. agh.

so if i bump this thread ever other day dont e-murder me
😎
 
Doesn't Columbia accept about 300 people? 300 out of around 1100 isn't really horrible odds.

And did they even interview that many this year?
 
Originally posted by jmwalker
hehe boy wonder
i read the whole thing too. i am spending more time dinking around on this site than is healthy or sane. I just learned about it at a med school interview and its pretty neat.

You mean someone at your interviews confessed to using this site?? I asked a few people at interviews but everyone just clammed up as in "uh yeah I might have been there once or twice"
"Great, whats your screenname"
"oh uh...I don't have a screenname...I don't post...honest"

hmmm 🙄 I can't be the only person that posts *and* goes on interviews 😉
 
thats funny. sounds like teenagers not admitted they came from parents or something like that. i dunno.

but then again the person that mentioned it only said they used the interview feedback section...

curious - i wish there was a good pensive smiley ...
 
my feeling is that the majority of sdn users are unregistered lurking leeches who never contribute anything but just use whatever's available for free. i think we should make it a requirement that people register in order to read interview feedback as well as the pre-allo forum.
 
Originally posted by Yogi Bear
my feeling is that the majority of sdn users are unregistered lurking leeches who never contribute anything but just use whatever's available for free. i think we should make it a requirement that people register in order to read interview feedback as well as the pre-allo forum.

i dunno - I guess I think theres room for everyone - I just only shout "yay!" to people that post about getting in if I have seen their posts before. If someone registers just to tell us they got in I don't bother!!
 
Originally posted by choker
hey! my baby lives!

wow, what a weird thing to relive.
so did u get in off the waitlist? where do u school now? sorry am just curiuos
 
I thought they said they are sending letters Feb 1? Who said Feb 15?
 
I thought it was the 15th as well...that's what I remembered from my interview anyway.....
 
it was roughly the 15th last year, and i figure it's the same this year.....
 
i do'nt think i'll be able to wait until feb 15. but i know it's gonna be a rejection anyway so who cares. i don't know how much effect the interview has on the decision considering how it only lasts 20 minutes or so.
 
lets get the ball rolling...anyone have a precise date!
 
Originally posted by alphabeta53
lets get the ball rolling...anyone have a precise date!

I think it is the 15th because:

1. It was the 15th last year (check this thread)

2. I asked at interview and was told the 15th

3. It says the 15th on the website under "Important Dates"::

http://t1.berlinprod.com/accounts/columbia/columbiasite8/applying.htm

Applications available
June 1
Application deadline
October 15
Recommendations deadline
December 15
Initial Round of Acceptances
February 15
Re-visit weekend (by invitation only)
April
First-Year Class Start
August
 
I think I remember someone posting that the Columbia decision mailings were pushed back one week. Can anyone confirm that, or am I just smoking crack again? 😛
 
i called- they said its been pushed back until the last week in feb, and everyone gets a decision.
 
Originally posted by wexy
i called- they said its been pushed back until the last week in feb, and everyone gets a decision.

Ahh, I knew I wasn't really smoking crack. Whew. 😎
 
check emails folks!!!
😉
i know two other MD/PhDs just heard too...
 
they'll send it on the 21st.
 
I called today and they said decisions were being sent out on the 24th. Looks like we have to wait another week.
 
Top