Columbia University (CUNY Morningside) (2022-2023)

[dusty garden]

i just submitted today and noticed rn that i didnt submit a resume to them

[sly bone]

nah i dont think so+ you could always upload it on portal

[dusty garden]

cause if there isnt that lowkey sucks

yeah im do that cause my resume basically explains my EC's

kinda hard to grasp what I really did with that 1 sentence we can write

[sly bone]

submitted 🥳

[jovial crypt]

yayy all of us submitting the day before the deadline 👏 and not the hour before 👏

[sly bone]

and I recorded myself so when i would be rejected, i'd have some files to destroy😌

[warped quiver]

very cool

hopefully i can just repurpose my princeton essays

lemme check the prompts rq

[sly bone]

well i did repurpose columbia's for princeton, other way around should work

[mortal oriole]

What's the deadline for school supplements (e.g.: mid-year report)

[stable tulip]

College essay guys has some good advice for the community essay

Personally, I might start off with describing some challenges you've faced, what you've learned, and how that would affect your experience at columbia

[warped quiver]

most semester grades aren’t out yet

[manic swift]

would you guys recommend uploading a resume to columbias portal?

[dusty garden]

thats what ima do cause my ecs look so bad without my resume

cause some of them need the explanation lol

[gritty pewter]

congrats!

[dusty garden]

what yall doing for this it says to provide identifying info should I just type it in the box?

Cause I use this resume for all other colleges

[mortal oriole]

Is there a central deadline for the supplementary materials?

specific to time-zone

[empty stump]

do you guys know if there's a deadline for the portfolio?

[tardy scaffold]

I would!

[grave mulch]

yall columbia extendde their dealine

Update as of December 30, 2022: The Regular Decision deadline has been extended until Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. (applicant's local time) for applicants affected by the current COVID-19 outbreak in China. There is no need for affected applicants to request a deadline extension. Please note that this new date will not appear on the application website, but we have noted this internally.

[warped quiver]

what

[jovial crypt]

For pple in China yeah

Penn did the same pretty sure

[grave mulch]

wait what abt if you get covid but not in china

[warped quiver]

it’s only for affected applicants in china

[grave mulch]

ooh

gotcha

[mortal oriole]

anyone?

[warped quiver]

11:59 jan 1 ur time

[mortal oriole]

Ahh I see

[manic swift]

I made a new doc for my resume and included the info!

[honest haven]

Welp, I just applied

Gl yall

[warped quiver]

Is it okay to not have 125 words for the 2nd prompt?

or should i try to reach it

I included museums, news outlets, music, podcasts, movies/tv series, and content creators

should i include magazines although i don’t regularly read them?

or journals

[mint hemlock]

Subreddits if you're a reddit user

I put a few video games but not sure if that's a good idea

[smoky hound]

i also did

i also put tiktok accounts i watch a lot lol

[warped quiver]

ooo subreddits?

[warped quiver]

what did you put that under?

websites?

forums

or

[mint hemlock]

Just "Reddit"

I listed about 6

[warped quiver]

Okay

[mint hemlock]

Related to my hobbies

[warped quiver]

yeah i’ve pretty much contextualized all of my interests

[warped quiver]

did you put a2c on there

LOL i’m contemplating

[mint hemlock]

No 😭

Ik someone in here said they did

But I really don't see how it could strengthen an application

[warped quiver]

r/columbia r/ilovecolumbia

r/pleaseletmeintocolumbia

[mint hemlock]

I've always wondered how these schools feel about bootlicking like that

Does it help? Or just reduce your personality rating

[marble garden]

r/columbiaaoadresses

[mint hemlock]

😳

[warped quiver]

true

r/iknowwhereyoulive

[marble garden]

always check the address sub first 🤭🤭

[warped quiver]

bro i have like, r/astrophysics, r/historymemes, and r/IBO

😭

aside from a2c

[marble garden]

i said uquiz dead ass i need to redo it 💀

[warped quiver]

reddit: r/chanceme

[marble garden]

PLSSSS

[warped quiver]

r/funny (i have a great sense of humor!)

I used to be into really cringe political satire 😭

i’m contemplating putting it but the main creator’s accoutn i used to watch has devolved into madness and i would not want an ao to look him up

[elder iron]

how long did it take after u submitted your app to get your temp pin?

[craggy river]

yall i fucked up fr on my why columbia essay.

i made the worst typo possible

[warped quiver]

did you put princeton instead

[craggy river]

No

[warped quiver]

then ur fine

[jovial crypt]

2-3 business days

[craggy river]

i was writing a lot of the word "inequity"

and

ended up writing

that i wanted to work with dr _____ to promote socioeconomic inequity

i.

[warped quiver]

HHAHAAHAHH

[craggy river]

im so done fr

[warped quiver]

that’s hilarious

[jovial crypt]

OH GOSH

😭

[craggy river]

instant reject

[warped quiver]

bro no you’re fine

[craggy river]

IM DEON

[jovial crypt]

that'll give them a chuckle

[warped quiver]

they’ll know it’s a typo

[craggy river]

I HOPE SO

[jovial crypt]

promoting socioeconomic inequity though, sounds like an absolute admit

[craggy river]

MAYBE ITLL ADD SOME HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC TO MY PROFILE CUZ 😭

HEAHAHAH

[mortal oriole]

would you know if they accept after 11:59 pm pst? Since they mentioned Jan 1, I thought they might have a grace-ish period lol

Because I'm still left with half of my video T_T

[warped quiver]

video for?

[craggy river]

What...

[mortal oriole]

the maker portfolio

[warped quiver]

columbia doesn’t have a video supplemental

[craggy river]

oh thank god

[mortal oriole]

it does in the maker section

[warped quiver]

the maker portfolio is submitted into the portal right?

[mortal oriole]

they have a slideroom for that right?

[warped quiver]

they might….?

the commonapp is due at 11:59pm tonight

with supplemental essays

[mortal oriole]

yeah that's done

[warped quiver]

okay so you’re fine

[mortal oriole]

maker portfolio is left

[warped quiver]

yeah there’s probably a grace period

[mortal oriole]

cool thanks!

[warped quiver]

just realized columbia doesn’t have the direct research i want to do

[jovial crypt]

finally submitted !

hooray :D

[gritty pewter]

congrats!

[gritty pewter]

oh damn
do you think you could email them about it perhaps?

[craggy river]

i'm not sure if a single word is worth the email 😭

[gritty pewter]

true

although it might be since i assume you meant to write "equity" right? so it would be opposite meanings there

but again, you might be right about it not really being worth it

[jovial crypt]

tysm!

[blissful minnow]

OMG FINALLY

[tidal cradle]

i would like others opinion on this: should i bother reporting scores of 3s

and only report 4 and 5s atleast for schools of these caliber

i know ap scores prob dont matter that much but rather be safe than running in the possibility of something negative for them to point out

[warped quiver]

Jan 2 11:59

[severe tulip]

ok

[jovial crypt]

ugh, why do we need references for our maker portfolios

that makes 0 sense

i think

it was that way for harvard and mit at least (due on deadline date)

ohhhh.

ok that's interesting, i'm not certain then

if you have it done, send it today to be safe ig

[warped quiver]

considering columbia is in nyc it would be a bad idea to start my essay about an experience with a rlly clear sky, no?

[jovial crypt]

NYC has clear skies lol

[rare cairn]

should i fill the wordcount for the lists

[warped quiver]

the bortle is rlly high

that’s why it might not be a good idea

but i think i can still talk about it especially since there’s observational at columbia

[warped quiver]

you don’t need to

[rare cairn]

ok ty

[jovial crypt]

i'd go for it

or maybe if you're not sure, you could reference the skyline? but idk what specifics you're interested in with that

[warped quiver]

i am interested in dynamics

i think i’m good—i just don’t think columbia has any serious dynamics research

[jovial crypt]

yeah i had a little bit of the same issue tbh, earth sciences

i just referenced some researcher who happened to be there that's well known in the field and added on

[warped quiver]

i’m into the rlly specific and “boring” niche of orbital dynamics, the only places i’ve really seen which cater heavily to it are mit and princeton 🗿

so i’m going to try to connect back to like

idk i’ll figure something out

i have to revise my why major then start on my why columbia

[warped quiver]

that’s very cool. i’m hesitant to add this but since they focused so heavily on media and books we’re into i might as well talk add that i started with x textbook in astrophysics that kinda sparked my curiosity

however the author is a princeton professor 💀

which i hammered on in my princeton essays but

[jovial crypt]

eh, you won't have to mention lol

[warped quiver]

yeah i won’t go into specifics

[sly bone]

https://groups.gsb.columbia.edu/cba/home/

another really good reason to go to columbia💀

[warped quiver]

i forgot weed was legal in NY

wait no i knew that i was there last week and now there’s a smoke shop on every corner

[stable tulip]

legal age is still 21 😭

[warped quiver]

mayhaps

i haven’t seen where columbia is but last week i walked literally FROM TIMES SQUARE to NYU’s campus

it’s pretty

we should’ve definitely gone a more direct route tho because we got lost and walked down like 4 different avenues and 40+ blocks ugh

[rare cairn]

ooh

columbias like a 20 minute drive to times square from what i know lol

[warped quiver]

yeah unfortunately we took the train to nyc and cab prices are ridiculous

[dusty garden]

ay idek what u guys like about NYC

[rare cairn]

ah damn

[rare cairn]

honestly idk either

[dusty garden]

probably faster to walk some days

so much traffic in that city

i hate driving there

[warped quiver]

💀 no columbia is a 4 mile walk

[dusty garden]

not too bad

[warped quiver]

i would not walk 4 miles through nyc

i would take the metro

metro >> walk

[dusty garden]

NYC terminology "its down the block"

[warped quiver]

yeah like 80 streets down the block 😭

[dusty garden]

nah but in ny u dont rlly feel the amount u walk opposed to when you walk in a quiet and big area

[warped quiver]

dude i’ve still get another supplemental to write for columbia and the why major is like “here’s some field im fascinated with!” columbia doesn’t have it

[dusty garden]

at least from personal experience cause there's so many ppl and buildings that u just tryna weave in between ppl and before u know it ur where u gotta be

[dusty garden]

the last part hit home for me

happened with another essay lol

but get off discord u got 2 more hours (if ur est)

[warped quiver]

it’s ok. they have the broader field

yeah i’m est

😭

it’s ok.

[dusty garden]

alr get off discord rn

yo some mod mute this dude for the next 2 hours

[warped quiver]

will come back to beg my friends to proof read

😭

[rare cairn]

omg

[warped quiver]

just one more to write and i have it ghost written in bullet points

i’ll be fine

[mint hemlock]

Just gotta do that identity essay and I'm done for the day 🙃

Central time at least so I've got a couple hours

[smoky hound]

i’m struggling hard on the why essay

it’s the last one i have

[leaden knoll]

🥳 Just submitted my Columbia application!

[jovial crypt]

12ish weeks is so close... but so far away

It'll pass in no time, I'm sure.

[dusty garden]

ay all i want is it to be past january 5th after that all I got is 2 apps left

[jovial crypt]

Sameeee

Another 500 word to complete by tomorrow for babson 😭

[dusty garden]

damn i got 2 due on the 5th, stanford and nyu

probably not gonna do upenn too much work depends on the timing

[jovial crypt]

I got UPenn, Stanford, and UVA for 1/5

Thankfully UVA is pretty lowkey, and stanford i'm just editing my roommate one, gotta start the last one though. upenn, the first one just needs editing, 2/3 need to get started.

[dusty garden]

bruh im in the same boat for stanford gotta edit the roommate one and start the meaningful essay lol

[jovial crypt]

yeah my roommate one is supposedly very unique but doesn't talk about me enough.

[dusty garden]

honestly some of these schools ik i probably have such a low chance at cause im test op but im just applying so i can never say i didnt try

[jovial crypt]

thankfully i just wrote a 690 word for harvard that is hyper specific and cute so i'll probably just edit in some parts of stanford with harvad.

[jovial crypt]

true true. i still submitted my scores to every college 😂

even though it's just a 32

[dusty garden]

for the harvard one i wrote a prompt of my choice talking about how i got interested in the medical field lol

[jovial crypt]

oh interesting

wanna talk more abt it in dms

[dusty garden]

wrote that for a bs/md program so i was like im reusing it im not gonna sit here and write a whole new essay

sure dm me

[jovial crypt]

oh cool

[hidden ravine]

is columbia deadline only extended for chinese students

[jovial crypt]

Yes.

[mint hemlock]

Submitted 🤮

[warped quiver]

submitted on time!

[mint hemlock]

I submitted an entire hour early

That is so unlike me

[warped quiver]

oh wow

i submitted at… 11:48pm

[jovial crypt]

Yikes

[warped quiver]

not a yikes but cut it very close

was editing my essays

i submitted main commonapp hours ago thankfully

[mint hemlock]

Tomorrow's an easy day for me now... just northwestern is due 😁😍

[warped quiver]

oh very nice

i have yale

[mint hemlock]

I dropped yale for Carnegie Melon. Yale is cool but new haven 🤢

[warped quiver]

fair enough tbh

[mint hemlock]

And for my field (not CS surprisingly) cmu was better

[jovial crypt]

I have a 500 word due tomorrow for babson... sigh

[warped quiver]

tomorrow i’m going to try my hardest to cram in yale, dartmouth, and jhu

[mint hemlock]

Jfc

[warped quiver]

so i only have caltech jan 3 😭

[jovial crypt]

Imma try cramming uva, upenn, stanford in the next couple days and submit all before thursday

[mint hemlock]

I did harvard columbia and princeton today and it was my most stressful day so far

[jovial crypt]

ouch

[mint hemlock]

Northwestern tomorrow

[warped quiver]

massively productive wow

[jovial crypt]

least northwestern is just one

one 300

[warped quiver]

northwestern took me an hour or two

[jovial crypt]

and even then it's "optional"

[warped quiver]

and that was it

i’m a fairly slow writer

[mint hemlock]

I had a lot of the essays done but I left the hard ones for today

[jovial crypt]

took me the same haha

[mint hemlock]

The community and diversity shit

[jovial crypt]

ouch

[warped quiver]

ouch

[mint hemlock]

Duke and CMU on Tuesday

Rice on Wednesday

[warped quiver]

i’ve had like 10 of those essays written which i just shaped differently for columbia

omg i have rice too

[mint hemlock]

Stanford and Penn on thursday

Then I'm done 😁

[warped quiver]

my upcomings

[jovial crypt]

💀

[mint hemlock]

Mit Stanford and Penn on one day is brutal

[jovial crypt]

thankfully most of my stanford stuff is done already

[warped quiver]

i will die but it’ll be fine

[jovial crypt]

ot

fine ✨

[warped quiver]

i have mit pre written

so that’s good i just need to finish their portal stuff

[mint hemlock]

I did MIT ea thankfully

Cuz their app is a pain

[warped quiver]

ah i should’ve done mit ea

[mint hemlock]

Need to get recommenders in separately

And counselor

[warped quiver]

yup

[mint hemlock]

All that shit

Because they want to be special

[warped quiver]

💀💀💀 my counselor was like “we’ll meet… jan 3 to discuss mit”

[mint hemlock]

I did all that and got my dumb ass deferred

[warped quiver]

[mint hemlock]

Jan 3

Damn

[blissful minnow]

wait i forgot to click submit on my columbia supple

[warped quiver]

uh oh

[mint hemlock]

Do it now if it's ready

[warped quiver]

did the deadline pass?

[blissful minnow]

oh ggggg

[rare cairn]

same 😭😭

[blissful minnow]

yeah i clicked now

[mint hemlock]

You're good dw about the deadline

[blissful minnow]

but deadline was 15 min ago

[blissful minnow]

ok rlly

[warped quiver]

did they still submit?

[rare cairn]

ur main app or ur writing??

[warped quiver]

if they still submitted i think ur fine

[mint hemlock]

The 1.9% acceptance rate for deferred students in RD provides massive copium though

[warped quiver]

you technically have until midnight hawaii time

[blissful minnow]

like first i only submitted this

[mint hemlock]

You're good

Just send that writing sup

[blissful minnow]

then i realized i need to click submit for this

[mint hemlock]

They already have your money so theyre gonna review it

[blissful minnow]

ok

ok hopefully i didn't screw myself up

good thing i noticed now as well

[mint hemlock]

Seriously you're fine

[blissful minnow]

its due at 12 am ur time

[blissful minnow]

okok 🙏

[warped quiver]

they give a little bit of wiggle room

be glad u submitted

[blissful minnow]

yeah

ok thx guys

i was abt to ***

[mint hemlock]

Grats on submitting btw

Columbia is not an easy application

[blissful minnow]

👍

yeah legit need to pour heart and soul into these apps

[warped quiver]

it was a really enjoyable one though tbh

i can’t wait for my ao to judge my music and book tastes

[mint hemlock]

Except the community bs it was pretty good

[warped quiver]

my community one was good… i think

[rare cairn]

i think that was my best one 😭😭

[warped quiver]

i copy pasted another community essay

[mint hemlock]

I think mine turned out okay too. Homeschooling makes a good topic for those questions at least

[warped quiver]

and just rewrote a bit

[rare cairn]

all the word counts were so short tho

[warped quiver]

yeah it was awful

like if i had 50 more words

i’d accomplish so much more

[rare cairn]

literally

[mint hemlock]

Can't believe they did 200 words instead of 250

I'm kinda glad for it, but if I had a more expansive topic it would have sucked

[mortal oriole]

300 words is the most optimum word count tbh

[frank leaf]

I submitted my app common app on time and my supplements 5 minutes late, anything I should do about it

[mint hemlock]

No. 5 minutes is not going to be an issue. Especially because kids in other time zones are still submitting

[frank leaf]

thanks man

[warped quiver]

also i don’t believe AOs get to view time stamps

they just download your application overnight

[fallen field]

Uhhh is Columbia trolling me lol

panic panic panic

[blissful minnow]

i think they're still processing

give it a bit more time

[fallen field]

(although i just got the portal link stuff)

ahhh okay phew

[chrome anvil]

i didn’t even get the portal link i only got the one that said please look for the portal link in ur spam b4 emailing us 💀

[fallen field]

;-; lmao

[blissful minnow]

yeah same i just got 10 min ago

[chrome anvil]

🙈

when did u guys submit

i did around 1am EST yesterday

[fallen field]

i did 10:30pm my time lol

[sly bone]

i did around 5pm ist

ps, my waitlist is also painted in red, just wait, they'd fix it

[quiet sedge]

mines the exact same dw

unless they’re trolling us both

[sly bone]

prolly working on it, they get like 40-45k applicants lol

[rigid imp]

Does anyone else portal say waiting application

[chrome anvil]

hopefully a bit less this year cuz of the US news troll 🤡

[fallen field]

phew and fairs haha

[stable tulip]

this is actually somewhat tru, im pretty sure ed numbers dropped from 6400 to like 5700

[rancid monolith]

can we just appreciate how far we've all made it! Im just so happy Im finally applying to colleges and getting the portals. Its a very stressful process but seeing the portal makes me smile

[mint hemlock]

beautiful, isn't it?

Columbia and UNC colors especially

[rancid monolith]

i love uscs portal

like ive been waiting for this moment for the past 2 years

and its finally happening

[mint hemlock]

ill be done in 3 days and it's all out of my hands from there

well except demonstrating interest

Damn look at you submitting applications early

I've submited every single one on the day it was due

time traveler

?

Funny that UT austin and the HK schools don't have icons

and NYU

ohhh ya

remove and readd the bookmarks maaybe?

[dusty garden]

howd u do this? Links in folders?

[mint hemlock]

It's just a folder of bookmarks

[dusty garden]

oh damn

lemme see if i can do that on windows lol (that looks like a mac)

ah i can

[mint hemlock]

It's my browser

but i'm on windows

[dusty garden]

damn been on computers for this long and i never knew

im dumb as shit

[mint hemlock]

As long as you didn't apply for CS 😉

[dusty garden]

i didnt im more of a hardware kind of guy i build pcs from scratch but hate anything that has to do with software

did some java coding before and after that day i never touched coding again

[mint hemlock]

That's fair

[leaden knoll]

if anyone has submitted a portfolio to Columbia does it show up on ur portals?

doesn't show up on my and just want to make sure i haven't done smth wrong

[weary valve]

Will I get into Columbia?

[slate horizon]

Idk legendarywplays

[jovial crypt]

We all hope so

oddly enough the admissions rate is basically the exact same as harvard/stanford

[slate horizon]

okay

[weary valve]

💀

[weary valve]

😭

[jovial crypt]

It's actually more competitive than harvard, although that's slightly outdated.

And this year because of Columbia getting exposed for lying a little bit on admissions, I'm guessing that they will be a little nicer this round.

or maybe not.

[jovial crypt]

No

[leaden knoll]

Thanks!

[static ermine]

Columbia extended the deadline for submission???

[warped quiver]

HUH

😢

[honest haven]

fuckkkkkk

[static ermine]

aight, i'm gonna shoot my shot then

[honest haven]

good for u lmao

[leaden knoll]

gl

[static ermine]

[honest haven]

columbia did not just use comic sans as their font for the portal

ffs

[jovial crypt]

😂

[chrome anvil]

💀💀💀

[jovial crypt]

that's hilarious

[chrome anvil]

yk all the colleges who contact u through ur SAT

[jovial crypt]

oh well my application literally couldn't have gotten any better so

[chrome anvil]

“i’m personally extending the deadline for u by 1 day!”

💀

[static ermine]

i guess it's true lmao

[jovial crypt]

and they do that for the next 15 days

[chrome anvil]

LMFAO exactly

[honest haven]

case western lmao

[chrome anvil]

🤣

i alr had 3 schools send that to me

columbia following in their footsteps lmao

hopefully cuz they got less apps this year!

[honest haven]

...to think that I hold it in high esteem

(...lol?)

[chrome anvil]

lmfao

[static ermine]

that's not my screenshot fyi, someone just sent it to the gc

[warped quiver]

HAAHH dude these colleges should not be allowing me to procrastinate this hard

i alr did columbia

but aghhh

cornell

[chrome anvil]

nicee

oh

🌽 L

the 650 word one huh

[warped quiver]

yup

[chrome anvil]

have fun 🤣

[warped quiver]

probably after jan 5….

i need to finish yale tn

[chrome anvil]

when’s the deadline for cornell

[warped quiver]

jan 2, extended to jan 16

[chrome anvil]

LOL

damn 2 week extension 🤣

[warped quiver]

they literally said “take this as more time to work on your apps”

thank you cornell, i will!

[chrome anvil]

hahaha

[honest haven]

they read ED apps and went like.....eerrrmm we, we gonna give u guys some more time yea?

[warped quiver]

💀💀💀💀💀

“we want good apps… got it?”

[chrome anvil]

🙉

[honest haven]

corness co 2027 be the worst one frrr

too many peeps applyign

[hidden ravine]

columbia was the strategic ed

regretting rn

[honest haven]

fr

i know a prof there he so cool

[fallen field]

woah wait is this for Cornell?? i wasn’t gonna apply bc the deadline passed but now I will WAIT IS THIS CORNELL SORRY I’M GETTING HYPED

[warped quiver]

it is cornell!!!!!

i’m hyped too!!

[chrome anvil]

https://admissions.cornell.edu/news/cornell-university-will-be-closed-saturday-december-24-winter-break-recess-and-re-open-tuesday

[lean ether]

This may be indicative of them receiving far fewer apps the they hoped to bc their “experience circumstances that did not allow for them to complete their application” is so baseless

[chrome anvil]

yayyy >:)

[warped quiver]

could def be

you think same with cornell?

why else would they extend it 2 weeks

[mint hemlock]

Two weeks is crazy. Has that happened in previous years?

[manic swift]

I hope this is true 😭

[leaden knoll]

the application is bugged for Cornell

there's a question that sometimes doesn't appear on the General questions of their application and if u don't answer it, u can't submit ur common app

that combined with the Cornell email ppl being out for winter break probably

idk if it's the same case for Columbia, mine was fine

[quick isle]

yea

lol everyone is experiencing the same thing

i've seen it sm on discord and reddit

anyway

if you unselect and reselect everything

and then immediately click "continue" and go back to the previous page

it should work

[leaden knoll]

for me, i unselected everything, clicked on activities, clicked back and there was a new question asking regular decision or ed

and that fixed it

[manic swift]

I experienced the same issue and I had to ask the common app people to manually fix it for me

[vestal sage]

good luck columbia RD people 🙏

[jovial crypt]

I spent so so long on my Columbia essays, I hope that time was worth it 🙏

[fathom ridge]

I spent an hour and a half 😭

[dusty garden]

hey im tryna do the same with my doc rn but I cant find my Columbia ID number anywhere whered u find it?

[manic swift]

it should be on your portal iirc

[dusty garden]

oh im dumb for some reason it kept loading me into the upload a document instead of the actual portal

[stable tulip]

let's go

[chrome anvil]

still haven’t gotten my columbia portal 😦

got the confirmation but no portal

[molten onyx]

anyone here applying for any of the dual degree programs? if yes, which?

[rancid monolith]

the portal is part of the confirmation email

[chrome anvil]

👀

[chrome anvil]

but i didn’t get a PIN to log in?

lemme check again lol

[rancid monolith]

click the link

[mint hemlock]

Columbia makes you forget your password instead of a pin iirc

[chrome anvil]

ohhhhhhhhh

[rancid monolith]

yeah

[chrome anvil]

thanks guys

i was worrying for nothing 💀

much appreciated!

[primal yoke]

gl to all the columbia applicants, hopefully y'all get a better outcome than i did

still very salty abt them rejecting me

[mint hemlock]

Thanks 😊

[rancid monolith]

thank uu

[autumn patio]

@stable tulip hi, sorry to bother u – I wanted to know how you formatted your list question responses. the instructions seem to indicate a list like

book 1, book 2, book 3, book 4 etc.

but the exemplars online kind of look like

book 1
book 2
book 3
book 4 etc.

[molten onyx]

are you allowed to take 2 languages?

at columbia

[empty stump]

I did it the first way (book1, book2, book3) and separated each item with a semicolon cuz some of the titles had commas in them and that was j confusing

The online ones are like examples from previous yrs i think thats why

[autumn patio]

okay that makes a lot of sense, thanks

[stable tulip]

I did It the fiest way although how you format the list doesn't really matter

[mint hemlock]

First way. It makes for a super long document if each is a new line.

[devout raft]

Columbia

[rigid dew]

This thread will be used to discuss Columbia University, regardless of the application types (ED1/RD). Feel free to ask your questions or discuss results or anything else about Columbia here.

Columbia University

[slate horizon]

anyone else's css/fafsa not received

[mint osprey]

yoo

did y'all give explanations in your list essays?

has anyone gotten interviews yet?

[jovial crypt]

No, you weren't supposed to.

[mint osprey]

yep that's what i thought

a couple of classmates did give short descriptions tho

so jw

[jovial crypt]

Ouch, bad of them to do that 😂

[warped quiver]

no and no

[jovial crypt]

They probably just automatically reject anyone who sends in descs for not following directions

[mint osprey]

lol

[jovial crypt]

Guys I have a problem

I haven't had a confirmation email from Columbia yet

[leaden knoll]

when did u submit?

[jovial crypt]

Jan 1

Minutes before the deadline

[quick isle]

You should get it in a couple days dw

[leaden knoll]

^

give them like 5 business days

[quick isle]

It’ll take a bit longer since you submitted so close to the deadline

When there’s a huge amount of apps coming in for them to process

[jovial crypt]

Oh ohh

Thanks

[leaden knoll]

also check ur spam if u haven't

[jovial crypt]

Sure

[leaden knoll]

a few confirmation emails ended up in my spam lol

[quick isle]

And promotions

[jovial crypt]

Can you send me the email address you got the confirmation message from

[leaden knoll]

🤔 I just checked and submitted 11:00 PM EST, Jan 1 and got it on Jan 2 so ... idk

[jovial crypt]

Thanks y'all

[leaden knoll]

@jovial crypt Also double-check that the application is actually submitted. ik a dude who thought he didn't get an email only(not Columbia apps tho) to find that he didn't pay the application fee or smth

[jovial crypt]

Well, Every college picks out some students to just electronically bully..smh

[leaden knoll]

lol u should check out Rutgers, they didn't even pick out some students, they're just bullying everyone

😂

[jovial crypt]

A friend of mine got into NU without the interview

darn

[leaden knoll]

oh goodness

[jovial crypt]

Meanwhile Cornell is indirectly telling applicants to send in more applications

[leaden knoll]

there's a chance it was b/c their common app is bugged

one of the questions doesn't show up all the time, making it impossible to submit

[jovial crypt]

Man NYU is a drag

[jovial crypt]

Ohh

[honest haven]

yeaaa don'ttt they're assholes

[jovial crypt]

Yeah I've tried contacting NYU twice and they haven't responded to either of my emails.

[leaden knoll]

how i feel about some schools promotional emails:

😂

[jovial crypt]

Hilary Clinton is gonna be teaching at Columbia!

[civic thunder]

How do i access the outside scholarship and external payment form

in idoc

[hidden ravine]

won’t u be taking her classes as a polsci major

💀

[jovial crypt]

I think shes SIPA grad school, not even sure if she'll be teaching or just honorary

but still cool maybe il see her

[hidden ravine]

oh ic

[vivid pasture]

thats so cool omg

[drifting vigil]

for those who got in ED, is there a class of 27 discord server or some sort of unofficial group chat? the official instagram and facebook group are kinda dead lol

[marble garden]

try the zeemee app

pretty active community you just need to show them proof of acceptance to get into the private admitted students chat

otherwise idk

you could always make one tbh

[drifting vigil]

ok i'll try out zeemee

i'm down to make a discord server just want to make sure there isn't already an active pre-existing one

[rough yew]

got interview

for anyone who already had the interview, what do they ask

and how conversational is it

[mint osprey]

ayo nice!

Are you international?

and when’d you apply?

[drifting vigil]

Nice!

Unfortunately I did not get an interview so I can’t comment on how it went

[mortal oriole]

do intls get interviews?

[rough yew]

nope

hmm i prob shouldnt doxx myself but like

im in nyc so its not really surprising that i got an interview rather quickly

[rough yew]

and i applied day of, jan 1

like mid-day ish

[mint osprey]

aah okay

makes sense

[molten onyx]

congrats! gl

[dusty garden]

did u have to indicate that u wanted an interview anywhere or do they just automatically send interviews to ppl?

[tardy scaffold]

They’ll reach out and offer you an interview!

If there’s an AO in your region, I mean haha

[dusty garden]

i mean im in NJ so hopefully i get that email soon lol

[jovial crypt]

@drifting vigil did u get zeemee

they want acceptance letter

did u blur anything out like columbia id

[drifting vigil]

I did

[drifting vigil]

I don't remember exactly what I sent but I just took a picture of my enrollment confirmation which had my name (didn't censor anything)

[jovial crypt]

ok

[jovial crypt]

is it dead or am i just not in the right channel LMAO

[drifting vigil]

it's kinda dead lol I'm in the Class of 2027 chat (for committed students), Find a Roommate, Class of 2027 Admits, and General

[jovial crypt]

ok yeah same

[tardy scaffold]

Same here!

[thin hedge]

the grammar is wrong “you’re book” 😭

[ionic ocean]

Have any of you heard from interviewers yet?

[quick isle]

nope

does columbia even do interviews lol

[unreal igloo]

i did

https://tenor.com/view/justin-anorexic-gif-20891745

idk if i trust him tho ^

/s nah i thought that was ED only

[jovial crypt]

I didn't get an interview, don't worry if you don't get one. All down to availability

[rough yew]

yes

[rough yew]

wait did anyone get their portal yet?

i got an email about my portal with no indication of a password

[icy wadi]

you need to password reset it

[rough yew]

oh i see

thanks!

[thin hedge]

i didn’t get an interview yet

💔💔

[leaden knoll]

no interview yet either

🥺

[warped quiver]

no interview here

[visual finch]

no interview as well

[weary valve]

samee

[chrome anvil]

nope

[jovial crypt]

its fine guys

[distant laurel]

Haven’t checked

[sly bone]

me neither

[lean ether]

most of the admitted students here I’ve seen didn’t get interviews lol and many who did got rejected. really starting to think it holds almost zero weight

[leaden knoll]

^ this lol

[drifting vigil]

interviews are pretty much 100% based on interviewer availability

if they actually look over applications to determine who gets an interview they would not be sending interview invitations out this early

[lean ether]

yea

[jovial crypt]

they do have an effect, but theyre based on availability

https://arc.undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/arc/guide/sites/archandbook/files/ARC Training - General - updated 07-12-12.pdf

scroll to bottom

Oh yes I looked at that doc and was like, "oh my"

[lean ether]

yes im sure they do lol but im saying it feels like they arent meaningful

[sly bone]

well the best analogyI've heard is linking interviews to caltech optional supps
it wont matter if you dont have any but if you do'em its a nice outlet for your personality, which does make an effect

[jovial crypt]

I had an interview with a small liberal arts college yesterday and I've realized how FUN interviews can be as long as you make them that way.

If I have an interview with a more competitive college, my goal is to just be myself and to enjoy the experience. Because that authenticity will really come to show.

Of course providing good answers are great but at the end of the day it's about just being me.

Having social anxiety obv doesn't help but thankfully interviews are supposedly lowk

google

[weary valve]

Is Columbia easy to get into if you are as smart as Elon Musk?

[jovial crypt]

Being smart doesn't mean you have good character ✨

[quick isle]

Probably

Assuming you did something similar with it

[drifting vigil]

the question is how smart do you consider Elon Musk to be

[fading nebula]

If by smart you mean family money then yes

[thorny wasp]

has anyone not gotten a portal?

[warped quiver]

are columbia interviews offered by availability or “we need more info”?

[molten onyx]

.

[fallen field]

generally as with all T10s, should be availability

for int’ls it used to be semi-selective and might still be for many schools, but anecdotally since covid there’s way less alumni interviewers volunteering so not getting one isn’t a death sentence necessarily

source: had friends in previous admissions cycle get into Stanford without an interview as int’ls

[unreal igloo]

this is the most absolutely colossally fucking stupid thing I've read

"yoyo here's two literally perfect students with insane ECs, one got great essays and one has a mediocre essay rite guys rite guys" "OH NO JOHN DOESN'T WANT TO BANG HIS MAJOR???? NOOOOO REJECT REJECT, WAIT IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE HE'S SOCIALLY AWKWARD??? NERD ALERT GET THAT BRO ON THE REJECT TRAIN RN" "MEGAN THO, GUYS SHE CAN SPEAK LIKE A 30YO GET HER IN RN"

fuck this process bro

like its way better than the intl system where a minute point diff on a standardized test cucks u out of 99% of unis but still

[warped quiver]

HUH.

WHERES MY COLUMBIA TEDDY BEAR

[fallen field]

cries in UCAS

[fallen field]

NAH I WANT THE SWEATSHIRT

[warped quiver]

that too bruh

[unreal igloo]

thoughts on predictions

they've been 100% right so far

in state Cali

also these are ballsy asl if not obv

gently, you're wrong

ye i applied very very last minute

like day b4 due

was like

wait

GA has only 1 supp?

yea lemme apply

[jovial crypt]

... john had worse essays the interview just reinforced committee view that megan was better

its not about being socially awkward either it was just john gave bad answers

you need to be good at these things to succeed anyways

[lean ether]

the issue is that the interviewer mainly commented, “he failed to convince me he believed those answers,” which could be unlucky. I mean these revelations would otherwise be missed if he never did the interview at all, in which his interview had a negative impact

[unreal igloo]

lowk

we could avoid all these issues by forcing ivies to make new campuses and take more people

they have the funds

[thorny wasp]

most?

[jovial crypt]

job interviews are like this too

internship interviews as well

i think its fair

i think all students should be required to interview

[lean ether]

^

That’s what job interviews are

If it wants to comparable to job interviews, it should be a requirement

[jovial crypt]

like gtown

[jovial crypt]

naaah

i can say about tech internship interview

its totally different

[jovial crypt]

i meant politics at least

[jovial crypt]

yeah, politics is all about communicating with others

so it makes sense

[jovial crypt]

They just give an example

[prisma vigil]

Anyone else not receive their portal yet

[true patio]

anyone else did the research supplement for columbia?

[quiet sedge]

i did

[mortal oriole]

Yes

[tardy scaffold]

I did!

[scenic jackal]

did columbia give out portals yeet

[prisma vigil]

Haven't gotten mine yet

[quiet sedge]

i got mine jan 2

[lucid glen]

i got mine like the day after the deadline

[jovial crypt]

got mine 3? days? after

[rigid imp]

Has anyone heard about interviews yet?

[prisma vigil]

havent even gotten my portal yet

[jovial crypt]

anyone would like to have columbia's css profile fee waiver

i already paid the fees

so i don't need it

[humble tiger]

that wld be awesome😭😭

[jovial crypt]

u want it?

[humble tiger]

yes pls

[jovial crypt]

dm

[still geode]

did any of u guys get the columbia portal yet lmao

[humble tiger]

yes, they shouldve sent an email with a link in it to these instructions

the reset password page that is hyperlinked:
https://apply.college.columbia.edu/account/reset?r=/apply/status

[still geode]

ohhh

thank u i get it niw

now

[mint osprey]

Anyone got interviews?

[jovial crypt]

nope

[jovial crypt]

u didn't get interview?

[jovial crypt]

nope

[jovial crypt]

ohhhh

its based on availability anyways so

dont worr if you dont get one

idt thats allowed here and also there is no

[jovial crypt]

yeah

decisions arent uploaded until the day of

[jovial crypt]

there is one

but nvm

lets not discuss that

no, finaid isnt representative of anything

[jovial crypt]

not fin aid

dm me

ohk

[sly bone]

If I have a recent achievement which is def worth mentioning
where on portal do i upload it? like the supplementary section would be an obvious choice but like
its not descriptive enough to make a document out of, its literally just 2 lines saying I recently qualified for xyz

[jovial crypt]

mail them

they will add that mail

to ur app

[stuck sierra]

i just got an interview hell yeah

[rough yew]

yall i need advice
so basically i got my interview email right
i responded saying i could work around their schedule, and they sent me a few timeslots, of which i picked wednesday
also inquired what platform we'd be using
this was back on sunday morning btw, the morning after their response
they never responded
should i send a follow up? since the interview is tomorrow...

[jovial crypt]

u should mail them

asking for the link

[rigid imp]

Has anyone gotten interview

[dusty garden]

nah I havent gotten any interviews yet 🥹

[mint osprey]

i dont think the interview matters much for columbia

i know intls who got in ED w/o interview

or maybe it matters just for domestics? no idea

[stable tulip]

cds says considered pretty sure

or just important

[lean ether]

i think someone here made a nice analogy where it’s comparable to optional essays. Your application is still complete without it and you can definitely get in, but it’s an opportunity to showcase more of your person—which can end up helping. However, they can end up hurting your app based on the training slides

[marble garden]

^^^

i think that’s such a concise way to put it

i’m mentally upvoting you or whatever it is the kids say now

[jovial crypt]

idt they actually hurt in the training slides: more like the essays were mid so he wouldn't get admitted, and the interview didnt push him to admit. it had little to no effect

at least seems more likely given what everyone incl aos have said about interviews rarely being negative unless you fucked up badly

[drifting vigil]

yeah I feel like unless the interviewer really hated you the interview can't really negatively impact your application

[sly bone]

fr, although if you dont get interviews it feels a lil unfair...almost as if everyone else is getting an additional essay on CA which you really wanna do but can't cuz no one in you neighborhood went to that school

[mortal oriole]

Exactly

If so many interviews for domestic are virtual, they could just roll out virtual interviews for intls too

[lean ether]

Well they added a negative which I would say hurt him. Otherwise he may have been deferred or not so clearly rejected. But also take the case if someone has a great app but is very shy in interviews. Then their report would prob hurt them with similar comments that their app otherwise wouldn’t have had

Now it’s true that those interview skills are eventually necessary for success, but their app wouldn’t have revealed that otherwise

[warped quiver]

I don’t think that’s what hurt him

he had weak essays

this was just reaffirmation that he isn’t the best in person either

[jovial crypt]

yeah it was more of a-> yeah his interview didnt give us a reason to admit him and he was headed to reject anyways

[rough yew]

i was gonna email them this morning

but then

they responded at 1am in the morning

asking to reschedule an hour earlier

so i have 2.5 hours left to mentally prepare

[lean ether]

That’s hurting him lol

[lean ether]

Take my other scenario

[jovial crypt]

idt thats how it would work

interviewers and aos have said that interviews cannot hurt unless you fuck it up really badly

like

kiss interviewer shit

[lean ether]

that clashes with the training slides

at least of someone got a bad report

hard to think that wouldn’t hurt

[jovial crypt]

idt you understand, im saying that the training slides never said the interview hurt, it just reaffirmed/didnt change the reject decision that woulda came regardless- a stellar interview might have pushed him to waitlist/accept

[lean ether]

im not sure why you’re so focused on that one scenario lol. hurting an application doesn’t mean changing the entire outcome of the decision. In the other case I mentioned whats wrong with the scenario

[jovial crypt]

.

[lean ether]

im not saying it made him go from accept/defer -> reject

Bc that would be too much weight ofc

[jovial crypt]

if someone is shy and has a great app, if they would have been accepted without interview, interview wont drag them down, if they woulda been waitlisted or rejected there would be no benefit
at least from what aos including columbia's have said

[lean ether]

if someone is shy but has a great app and they get a report like John’s, that could certainly hurt their app, right?

[jovial crypt]

not from what i've heard

[lean ether]

I really find that hard to believe and I think that’s really fair lol, regardless of general “interview won’t hurt you” statements. I mean John’s report was harsh and would naturally not make you want to admit someone like that if you read it

cause you can’t really unsee or forget it

[warped quiver]

• interviewer could be a lot older than john
• could have have completely different interests / majors
• could have overall just been really stingy

[lean ether]

Exactly

Super unlucky

[unreal igloo]

^^^

Remember to read what the rating was

Rec WITH reservation

outlining weakpoints as things that without a doubt can be attributed to shyness or general anxiety/nervousness when answering questions(also I personally think its idiotic to have an intricate idea of exactly why you want to study a major, it makes sense for a solid 0 majors, i don't mean just wanting to do a major or having a weak reason is okay but needing a whole life story and global impact as reasoning is plain stupid)

like I want to do CS and Finance/biz bc I ran my own company and like coding, there's not much more to it, but I need to turn it into something its not

[jovial crypt]

the thing is, most people will be rec with reservation, thats why a stellar interview will be a + on your app but otherwise it has no effect

[unreal igloo]

thats true

[jovial crypt]

yeah running your own company would be a good reason

the report makes it seem like john didnt really have any reasoning

[lean ether]

which makes all the more sad if he did

[jovial crypt]

well again i still think it wasnt a negative on the app

but even if it was, its fair

[lean ether]

Without strict guidelines, I could totally see someone giving higher ratings on average then another person. But even if there are really strict guidelines, idk if everyone’s report will be as specific as “failed to convince me that…”

[jovial crypt]

the thing is, aos and interviewers recognize that this is most likely someone's first time interviewing
most people will not get a perfect rating on the interview, what seems negative to you is probably the norm for interview reviews
it doesnt matter if there are guidelines or not because it wont harm the applicant at all

[lean ether]

I’m not arguing that being able to talk well is not a desirable skill and that it shouldn’t be preferable in college admissions, but I’m saying that in the interest of an applicant, a stellar app not having an interview can avoid revealing weaknesses that the interview would show. I.e. i could not care less about the college, im referring to the interest of an applicant

[jovial crypt]

and im saying that the weaknesses that the interview would show is prevalent in almost every applicant or is expected, and as such, there will be no negative effect

[lean ether]

well i guess that’s another part I would want to be confirmed. You’re right that I thought John’s report was negative, but it would be nice to see what the majority of reports are like

[lean ether]

im not sure about that either. I think the majority of interviews will go fine with students

[jovial crypt]

there was an interview with columbia ao that basically said this
a few other t20 aos/alumni interviewers on a2c too

[jovial crypt]

again from what ive seen "fine" is John's interview

stellar is the other persons

[lean ether]

it’s hard to believe that the last sentence of John’s report is common. Like with essays, wording matters and can give off different impressions

Which could also vary with interview, as icy pointed out. I wager that if someone else interviewed John, the report could certainly appear different

[jovial crypt]

but this is basically the admissions process

your app could have gotten a different report if you had a different ao for example

[lean ether]

Yes you’re right absolutely. The interview is just another part of rolling the dice

[jovial crypt]

and interview has less weight than other components

in cds

overall idt its as bad as ram says

[lean ether]

Which you could understand might not be preferable to certain applicants

[jovial crypt]

[warped quiver]

it’s a lottery in that sense

[jovial crypt]

eh

id support mandatory interviews

like gtown

and make them have more weight

[lean ether]

Yea sure, I’d support that too

[jovial crypt]

but have a standardized rubric or at least have standardized something hold majority weight in the interview

[lean ether]

Then everyone would roll the dice multiple times

[jovial crypt]

well idt its rolling the dice

imo the best leaders are able to adapt to social situations

[warped quiver]

would be hard to do so but giving a rubric which the interviewers score with can help

[jovial crypt]

gauge the interviewer and know what to say from there

[warped quiver]

you could still just totally not click with your interviewer

[lean ether]

Who cares about this best leader stuff. As I said i don’t care about the colleges, im talking about the applicant

[warped quiver]

for me w/ harvard my interviewer was super into material physics and i knew 0 about it

[lean ether]

And in helping an applicant who is not gonna present well in a live interview

[warped quiver]

he kept using jargon to get me to talk about it and i couldn’t play into it but talked about the field i’m interested in

[jovial crypt]

well just as how the strongest applicant is the one with best grades, best essays, i believe a strong applicant has to be a good leader/perform well in social settings

[warped quiver]

it’s hard to connect to someone w/ a phd and sound like you’re brilliant

[warped quiver]

this is true

[jovial crypt]

just like how some people dont write essays well and are automatically disadvantaged in the process even if they may be incredibly smart

[lean ether]

Sure I agree

[warped quiver]

you could also demonstrate the last bit in essays tho too

and ecs/recs

[lean ether]

So someone who is not great in that should not want an interview to reveal that part of them

[warped quiver]

no

it’s demonstrated interest

and it usually doesn’t hurt you

[lean ether]

Yea… they feel obligated too

[warped quiver]

unless you say something wild

[lean ether]

because of the current interview system

[warped quiver]

so as long as you don’t do so you can literally just sit down at a screen for an hour and research the bare minimum then go on a tangent and you’ll be fine

[lean ether]

Just how we’re very meticulous to edit our apps to present ourselves in the best light possible

[rough yew]

my columbia interview was great

interviewer was super chill

felt very natural

stuff he asked me was like general introduction, why columbia, if there was a book that you'd show everyone, something you wouldnt include about yourself in a resume, what you want ppl to say about you when you leave the room

and there was a more specific question that was region based bc he wanted to ask that to know more about me (we are from the same city)

[jovial crypt]

Those are odd questions compared to what I've had with other colleges lol

Nice job though !

[rough yew]

the odd questions stuck out more to me

there were definitely more generic questions

[jovial crypt]

Ohh ok

Idk what I'd respond with with regards to the book one

[rough yew]

i said into the wild by jon krakauer!

he had also read it

and recommended me another book by the same author

i mean worst case scenario you can just pull from that list of books from the application

[jovial crypt]

Oh rightttt they totally don't see that

[rough yew]

even if they do see it, it doesn't matter, since maybe the book just stood out to you

if there was a book that i really really loved + read outside of class, id definitely go ahead and say it

just so happens that the book i chose was smth i read in school

[lean ether]

my interviewer didn’t ask me any of that lol. I was prepared too 😭

She basically just asked Why Columbia and what I did. Super generic

[rough yew]

OH I FORGOT IMPORTANT QUESTION

why would you be a good fit for columbia

[rough yew]

rip :(

hopefully the preparedness made the responses rly strong tho

[lean ether]

this was for ED btw. I got deferred so who knows 🤷‍♂️

But I definitely didn’t feel great about it like others

[rigid imp]

dang what are you guys saying for what book?

[sly bone]

i dont think there's much point in sharing our book lists
it's supposed to be what you enjoyed reading during your education

[rigid imp]

ik im just curious on what you guys were reading

im not trynna copy your answer or anyhting

[shy basin]

a bunch of scifi basically

[smoky hound]

i tried to have a lot of variety in the books i included

so it’s a bunch of things

[rough yew]

had a bunch of sci-fi, creative nonfic, generic ya novels

multiple whole sci-fi series 💀

[marble garden]

i picked some sci-fi and classic lit ^.^ i feel like that covers my interests pretty well

and also ofc the secret history i am a teenage girl

[teal dagger]

i put Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!: We Are Growing!

[mint osprey]

where you live?

i mean i'd mention the area or locality

but don't give ur address or smthng 💀

alternatively you can even suggest a meeting spot like a starbucks

[marble garden]

they already know

[steel scaffold]

can interviewers see my essays and stuff

no right

[still geode]

they cant

[steel scaffold]

okkk

[sly bone]

oh no no
i wasnt saying that, i was tryna say it'd simply cause tons of book titles to flood the chat

[sly bone]

i drilled down my top 3 interests
i followed the sequence

1. astrophy book
2. comedy book
3. cooking book
4. astrophy book
5. comedy....

[mint osprey]

damn

nice

Mine was just kinda random ig

Except some books about econ there wasn’t a specific trend

[jovial crypt]

i had like

18 book titles

[jovial crypt]

all related to history and politics?

or somethin else even

[jovial crypt]

nah had some music some econ, math, fiction

[jovial crypt]

wait lemme check how many books did i list

[jovial crypt]

17 books

[still geode]

holy shit

ur still awake

😭

[lean ether]

Yes of course

Most interviews don’t need to be completed until like mid to late February

[tough valve]

Does Columbia give interviews for internationals from Canada?

I just received a confirmation for financial stuff

They want me to confirm to them that I’m not applying for aid 😝

Yeah lol, coping hard cuz cousin went there, rlly wanna go

[mint osprey]

Oh lmao

They send that to everyone

[unreal igloo]

https://tenor.com/view/sigh-facepalm-stressed-disappointed-bored-gif-17570669

[tough valve]

ik lol

cuz not a lot of people from Canada apply to Columbia

There are only a very few each year

[quiet sedge]

really? naviance said around 15 in my school applied, out of 115 ish

[tough valve]

Rlly?

One thing for sure I know is some people didnt apply cuz it has a ton of essays, expensive, and is not very good with aid to intls

Most people here apply with aid so

😨

[jovial crypt]

columbia is pretty good for intl aid

not as good as pton and harvard for sure but

still up there

[tough valve]

rlly? I have personally heard the exact opposite...