#Columbia University (2025-2026)
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are any of yall nervous
Oh, totally
use CDS
if you think your essays are trash they aren’t, if they are personal
omfg my essaysss
guys im so nervy i cant even focus on my hw rn...
so many things to freak out over
Idk my essays are probably trash
I know it’s so scary lol
“probably” won’t matter if you get accepted, keep your head high you got this
like i have super important calc and french tests coming up and i cant even lock in
what major are you guys applying for?
plus you already submitted
they are good trust
was considering napping 4-8 pm tomorrow so i don't have time to be nervous
That’s the fear actually
I can’t do anything!
I won’t be able to sleep tonight, let alone tomorrow!
i feel like ur the most likely applicant
that's where taking melatonin comes in 🙏
just based on ur personality
Me!?
like u always positive and hoping for the best 🥀 whenever i see u in here
Awww tysm
and ur not addicted to messaging in here like some of us be
Hahahaha I do have to not get terrible grades this semester lol
I just want everyone to get what they want lol
im so gld i have trimesters 😝 my exams were in november LOL
Lucky!
see
this is the winner mindset
if they don’t take me they’re gonna be missing out
yes and at least one of us in here has to get in 🤓
✌️✌️
me. we - ali or some guy idk
Exactly!
i am trying so hard to understand what u saying 😭
OHHH
I think it means that if one of us wins, we all win
It’s fine
We’re all stressed
We don’t have to be good at anything rn
At least that’s what I’m telling myself
Bc I have a ton of hw due at the end of the week and I am doing none of it lol
I have absolutely insane refs though
So I think that’s going for me
I read two of them lol
Bc they were sent to me
I go to what is basically a sped school and half of the student body is just hitting mailboxes and screaming on the floor
So the teachers and admin love me
yesssssss girl
yeah i read one of mine too and it was rlly good
No it’s fine
I’m so excited for you
We’re going to Columbia I can feel it lol
UH HUHHHHHHHHH IKTR
Also I had a job interview like a few hours ago
It went so well
The lady literally finished it up with “I’m excited to see you this summer” like chill out I haven’t even been officially hired yet
employed!!
I know!
I have to get a food handlers permit and cpr cert
My mom teaches cpr classes and she said she could do one for me lol
What’s funny is that my mom is very risk averse and she won’t do anything if she doesn’t think she’ll succeed at it
And she’s been so happy that I’m applying to Columbia lol
She told me that there are a ton of chances she didn’t take bc she was worried about failing and she’s happy that I’m not doing that
Bro my sat reading is like below 25th percentile am I cooked
Wait I sent both sat and act
And my act was good
Do they just only consider that
Ic thank u
I think my course rigor makes up for it
ik people who got into columbia w low 1400s
you’re fine
Oo cool
I’ve heard in general that what classes you take matter a lot, idk about Columbia specifically but colleges care about that
This makes me feel better lol
I freaked out a few weeks ago and was like “wait is 1530 actually bad aaaaa”
WHAT
girl obv 1530 is good🙄
Which is stupid in retrospect
bro if its 1500+ do not worry about it 😭 😭
But I was scared
I think they have this as very important on their CDS if I’m not mistaken
i have a 1530 too
Oh yay!
i have a 900 on the sat
Twinsies!
Which is good bc I have like the hardest stem schedule in my school possible 😭
You’ll be fine. Columbia is test optional
how many of u ed'd
Meee
i'm joking LOL i got a 1170
that's not any better though
💀
i like fordham better than columbia so no
i wish i had EDd
me
I believe in you for RD
yeah
my family was pretty against columbia so i didnt bring up ED
its understandable that they are but like
:(
im hoping i get in RD and just convince them that way idk
its ok me and most of the people ik got in rd
I did a tour over the summer bc my family went to nyc and I loved the campus
yeah, i dont have legacy and im not an athlete and whatever so im not really super upset
most of the ppl i know got into ivies RD too
a big chunk of my friends are likely letter kids 💀
eat the likely letter
i thought it was likely ... letter kids like whats a letter kid
u seem to be hungry
thats insane
yeahhh ik people who picked this school over like harvard because of that 😭
well thats the point of a likely letter
I am hungry
Yeah the rates are pretty low but a lot of people apply to a ton of schools. If you seem passionate about the school, you’ll have an advantage
I’m going to eat the Columbia campus
Noo! I wanna go there!
likely letter is acc insane
i think my essays r pretty good so hopefully
i think i wrote a BANGER why columbia essay
i just gotta hope they vibe
Oh nice!
I wrote about my tour there
you will then become the largest private landowner in nyc
I did the list essay lmao
bro my why columbia essay was so bad
Not the other ones
ik the aos were shaking their heads 😭 😭
LOL
still got audited 
its ok i think i got into goergetown DESPITE some of my supplementals not because of them
huh for what
But you got in!
how come
one of my moms coworkers sons is being audited on the UC app rn and hes TWEAKING out
about my life circumstances 😭
oh 😭
his PIQs are the ones being audited too
Wdym
LMFAO my counselor was geeking when she told me about the audit she was so excited for me 😭
yheah no its honestly a net positive tbh
yeah no i fs think that helped lmao she glazed me
The word audit looks scary
Sorry for being stupid but what is an audit in this context
wait thats insane
did you ahve very good life circumstances? well not good but beneficial ones in the college app process?
they called my counselor to check about part of my application
yeah its a random audit after the varsity blues scandal, apparently he has to PROVE that his PIQs are like legit
they do that often?
idts
how does that even work
proving a piq is kinda insane
😭
ikr
but i remember searching about it after and being like okay well if everyone i saw who got audited got in then surely
what about for ecs
i dont kjnow if he has to prove that he wrote it or if he has to prove that the content really happened but either way...
that happens too
they always locked up
Is that like… how I wrote about a guy hitting me at work and they call my boss to check that he actually did hit me?
yale is doing it a lot this year after what happened last year
kinda LOL
do life circumstances before like 13 yrs old matter for college apps
yes
wait what happened last year
Dw they didn’t actually call her
💀 checking that would be insane
Just an example
what ab before like 10
some girl got into yale but all her life details and stuff was faked
Wild
one of my ecs was simulating this business with my class and we made money (not real money LMAO) 💀
well i have a friend whose father passed away by suicide when he was very young so of course hes gonna put that on
she lied about being someone from a tiny north dakota town but shes from the bay area
Omg
that's just blatant??
How do you fake that!?
most honest person from the bay area (sorry californians)
go big or go home i guess
thats why yale is like locked in on the audits this year 😭 😭 😭
how would u put that on? like in 1 of the essays? sorry for the loss btw
bruh why didn’t she just do transfer 💔
yeah they interviewed her and she was basically like "im gonna change my name and try again"
i mean yeah anywhere you can or want to tbh
THATS INSANE
stop fiening for yale
they need to lock her up
😭
bro is bad that ts is genuinely so funny to me
If I go missing tomorrow, she decided to steal my life to get a Columbia spot
oh wait i just reread this
if you mean good life circumstances as in like "hooks" or whatever then i suppose yes like i had a very specific negative life circumstance in hs
i wasnt legacy or facultys kid or anything like that though
okay yeah thats what i meant LOL
Oh no I hope you’re alright now
sorry i didnt know how to phrase that
bro like
i think "hooks" is a BS term
I don’t have any good son stories lol
but idk what to say instead
she was such a character
uhmmmm just read the article 💀
i cant really explain how uh much of a character she was
LMFAOOO its all good dw
I mean, you can. I think “faked her whole life to go to Yale” is sufficient
i dont either but honestly i am very grateful for that... college admissions really reveals inequity like nothing else and its made me feel a lot better about my life circumstances
of course ive faced adversity, and i wrote my essay about it but i dont want or need a "hook" or anything more, if they dont want me for who i am then they dont deserve me tbh
oh my god
I mean, I’m only at a sped school bc I was failing in middle school bc I got touched but that’s weird to write about lol
i think this adds a fourth dimension though 😭
sorry but like she did allat for yale
Uhhhh wtf
good mindset to have : D
this was very strange too
Feeling better about my life circumstances doesn’t help bc I feel like nothing bad has happened to me bc I’m not even worth hurting
But my negative amounts of self esteem is not a topic for rn lol
wow they really wanted to include ALL of the details huh
I’m genuinely going to cry Binghamton emailed me again and it’s not even because of my application
:( i hope ur doing better now
i know right 😭
I know this is probably mass email but I’m still sad
I’m not <3
My grades are though
but yeah her north dakota location was a hotel, not an actual house 😭
Studying is a good coping mechanism
Nooooo
aw :(
insane
Presumably the hotel where she would meet her phone sex boyfriend?
💀💀
I’m just making a joke lol
was the boyfriend even real LMFAO
😭😭😭
every day i am grateful i live in a city and not one of those places LOL
she basically got caught because she left out her real (presumably californian) id
WTF she couldve gotten away w ts so easily if she wasnt weird
with a different name and a different address
and dumb
Bc if she weren’t she wouldn’t have had to lie to get into Yale
😭 😭
yo ur a cuber right
yes
did u know matty inaba goes to columbia
omg have u seen him lol
Who is that
Matty Quigley? From Unsounded!?
LMFAO
(I’m just messing with you lol)
But fr why are you moots with an 8 year old 🤨
wait what i thought you were taking a gap year
(I’m making a joke about a fictional character)
hes a really goated cuber
Ok cool
i am but co29 was the year i applied
im not tapped into cubing but i think he got his first NAR recently, he's also goated at tennis or smth like that i think i forgot
is there a cubing community at comlumbia
so its like my class but also not
yes
i think they sell a little columbia cube
o thats fire
oh yeah some tennis goat goes here
yea didnt he win nats
cracked
I’m only goated at the stuff I made up
I couldn’t say I was trilingual on my apps bc then I would have to explain that I made an entire language that I spoke almost exclusively for a year when I was 13
LMFAOOO
if i ever attend columbia do u think they'd let us host a comp there
prolly
exclusively?? what
Yeah this is a problem that very few people have lol
some guy wanted the zfellows guy to come to columbia and he did so they hosted some event w him
Yeah my family wasn’t happy
are the girls at columbia pretty
like im sure youd be able to do it LOL
Well, I’m pretty and I’m going to Columbia trust
did u go to school and speak the language there 😭
yes you get mogged daily by the barnard girl in front of you when you swipe in at the gates
the cornell image
Yes.
LMAOOO
priorities straight
i'm joking LMAO
comp in nyc would be goated
i'm also a girl
is this something you consider when applying to a school
🏳️🌈
LOL
oh
i considered this briefly
when i was scrolling on the columbia subreddit someone said people at the library smelled terrible
😭
Not as weird as the fact that I started referencing historical and political happenings from the not real place that the language would hypothetically be spoken
but yes you probably will run into attractive people, esp GS because there are plenty of models/actors/influencers that are in GS or the liberal arts graduate schools
And then started practicing a whole ass religion that came out of nowhere lol
even the men? 😟
But I didn’t put that on the apps
cs majors
yes 🤗
real question is are the pretty women wlw ⁉️
everytime i walked into the cs room i got instantly hit with the smell of sweat
Really important but
it was sour
Where is the boba near campus
scary year of apcsp
there is a heytea probably
when do you NOT get hit with this scent walking into a cs room
some dudes chair was sweaty n my friend had to wipe it to sit 😂
I did AP compsci but I was the only one at my school who took it lol
since the period ended
That class smelled fine
I had to go to a different school to take the exam bc my school didn’t offer it
will you be opening the results as soon as they're released??
Ofc
we r all here
we are ALL getting mogged in new york city
bro ong we need to looksmaxx before we pu
by the Chinese international students…
💔💔
yall are so nice
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
i quite like this thread
Hey, we all know what it’s like
i am actually quite mean
i appreciate that you guys are mostly normal and not rude stats-obsessed crashouts
ok lub
I’m not normal but I try not to be rude
dg ?!
soho fashion demons
I don’t take a ton of pictures but I have one with a jacket I like even though you can’t see it very well bc I took it at night 😭
Face censored to not doxx me
Tysm
whats up
wait model
omg speaking of jackets i just got a new one with fur on the collar and i love it
hello adriana lima????????
Thank you lol
lololol
yes
im excited for tomorrow now
drain gang pfp
I know
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
it's a hip hop group with the artist ecco2k who released an album called "e" (aka the e profile pic)
i am too nervous to do anything else so i feel like ill just go to bed now 😭
I have to eat dinner
And I promised myself that I’ll do homework after before bed
But I’d say that’s actually 50/50 lol
i rmb this
isnt teachers college somewhere down nthere
yea
i think im actually pointing at it in this pic
also the mosaic is so pretty
One of my recommenders went to Columbia lol
She’s so excited to find out if I get in
trust 🫂
I know 😭
Boy
i saw this and i was like brother none of us are practicing self care tonight.
diva
I’m going to emulate the lion tonight
The lion concerns himself with his Columbia acceptance
The lion is very concerned rn
awe thank youu
quest bridge!
Oh I’m not lol
low income individuals can apply and if qualified have a chance to attend a top university on a full ride
Oh cool
so cute
Yesss
how low income do u have to be
incl the parents?
thats what family of 4 means
oh ok
but there isnt a like
“set” income
thats just where most people who advance are in
u can read more on the questbridge website
if my dad doesnt live w me and my mom but he still provides child support and all our incomes combined r 43k/y is that btwn a family of 3 or family of 2 would u say
ud definitely qualiy
qualify
i think u should look into it!
it works sort of how matching works with dental and medicine programs
im a soph so cant do anything yet but they have a thing for juniors ill def sign up for
the other nice thing is u can also submit all applications for free
once ur a senior
so lets say u get rejected
and u dont matc
u can send applications for rd to colleges for free
and still be considered for rd even if u didnt match
oh fr? wow
u also will probably qualify for a common app fee waiver so that is free as well
does matching count as the ea/ed process, so like let's say i put harvard on the top of my list and i don't get in thru qb, can i still do their REA or no
Columbia is goated for fee waivers btw
I got rejected from the stars fly in and I still save like 60 bucks
so how it works is you have to apply. if u make it through the initial screening you become a finalist. once you are a finalist, you then go through another portion of questions and stuff. you then will rank 15 schools, 1 being the school you really want to go to, and 15 being the one you want to go to the least
then the colleges will go through their own process. if they want to admit u, whichever college highest on ur list wants to admit u in their ed will be where u match
so lets say harvard is 1 and upenn is 2
upenn wants to accept u and so does harvard
but because u ranked harvard higher, u will be matched to harvard
if u dont match that is alright, u just will need to resubmit applications to colleges to be considered in the rd round
but if ur a questbridge finalist, a ton of people who dont match still get into T20s and other ivies through RD
R u here rn lmao
i've never been more nauseous in my life 😔
Real
ED is tmr?
yea
yes at 7
I’ve taken to having to post rants about my OCs 😭
That’s what it takes to not be stressed
😭
longest 19 hours of my life for fucks sake lmao
pacific time my goat fr i get decisions at 4 tomorrow and i get to calm down before watching the hockey game 🙏
just to get rejected
good luck tomorrow
Yes
Same decisions at 4!!!
Acceptance at 4!
had to put the college back in the name
fact
Also, I’m writing some stuff for my school’s poetry day lol
Just remembered that it would be happening at some point in the future and I thought of a really good line
inshallah
There are no bones of a dead city, there is no displacement, no hope of return, simply a severing of a cord that can never be tied together again; the other end is somewhere infinitely far away, lost in the space between real and unreal.
I hope it isn’t trash lol
oh the server icon changed! i live in eternal fear
They should change it for Columbia lol
em eye tee
i go to a comparatively small school where a ton of people went mit ea, at least i get to tease them for a glorious half hour tomorrow afternoon 
who is designing all these cool icons
members of the community do
i think
ahahaha I get my decision 8am tomorrow… I love time zone differences
oh nah that sounds terrible 😭 😭 couldn't imagine going to sleep then waking up to a decision letter in my inbox
you’re right idt I can sleep tonight…
that'd scare the life out of me
Idk I wish it were like that for me lol
to each their own
Yeah
AHAHAHA I get my decision 17 Dec in my timezone though
Good luck
😵💫
Oof
ayy me at 9am
which is right when i wake up
and my parents are out so i'll be freaking out all by myself
how exciting
@celest violet
hi
i spent most of it talking about me discovering interest in said area of study
then had concluding sentence about columbia
i have no idea if that's how it's supposed to go
that's just how i did it
so in the previous essay
on why columbia in general
what did u talk abt
omg twin
Wait how’d u get in already @autumn minnow
i got in last year, im on a gap
Ohh
did u talk abt major related stuff in that too
or in general
what u wanna do in the future + how columbia is gonna help
with that
was how i did it
yeah
i talked about what i did and how i would continue stuff like that at columbia
i dont know if i should include why columbia college academic stuff in the areas of study essay
or in the why columbia
😭
How many of you guys acc submitted sat
theres no wrong answer
many do many don’t
ur no longer discreet
I did
How much was it
hi, did u connect why columbia eng also in this essay or just why major:
What attracts you to your preferred areas of study at Columbia Engineering? (150 words or fewer)
1530
did anyone submit an ncp waiver form here
Ahhh I intend to go downstairs and open it myself LOLZ
uhhhh idk if i was right but the way i did it was for why columbia i talked more about what they in general offer and clubs etc while for the engineering i talked about research/profs and more academic topics + the eng core e.g. the art of engineering
ok ty!
~17 hours
16 hours now
thank youuuu that is sweet
:)
🙏
Broooo I don’t want to open it in front of my parents cuz it’s like
What if I cry
They have work to do I don’t wanna burden them with that
lol
i opened mine alone it was a good choice
anyway GOOD LUCK TO COLUMBIA EDers TODAY 🙏
soon you will all be in NEW YORK CONCRETE JUNGLE WET DREAM TOMATO 🗣️
yeppp this is what im doing
oh this thread is gonna blow up
i did
i have to go sleep in an hour....
i hope i wake up to good news
i hope WE ALL GET IN!!!!!
you are so sweet
same
gl to all ed kids in here
I’m rooting for yall
As long as yall leave one spot for me to get in as rd kid
dw dw we all got this 🔥
yes we will make up 99% of the 2030 class
Dw we will
@autumn minnow @untold ore sorry for pinging you... but i wanted to ask 🤓 when yall applied... did your extracurriculars connect to your major/intended study at all...
i feel like mine dont connect very well and its a big hole in app
i only had like 1 ec (research) that was directly in my major
and maybe one more
but other then that its just general stem
bruh i shouldve locked in last year or sophomor year and done usaco/usapho
this thread feels like its own commuinty tho like u guys r so nice lol
Tysm
We’re a community bc we’re all getting in and we’re all going to be a community at Columbia lol
Do they send the folders to everyone who gets in or js the domestic ppl?
leave one for me too
gl
OOTD for getting into Columbia
wait this is cute
i wish i looked nice today but i have to wear my schools format outfit today 💀
also guys this kid at my school got into dartmouth this must be a sign
It’s a sign I believe in you
Tysm!
what if you cry tears of joy
my favorite thing about getting in was the scavenger hunt on the portal
i got a bunch of uh interesting zoom backgrounds
What scavenger hunt?
the what now
My thoughts exactly
Wow you have so much faith in me
JESSICA MARINACCIO MY GOAT I LVOE HER
Also I got appointed as head of the spring dance today lol
omg congrats!
It’s a sign
congratualtions 🎉 🎉🎉
i did not get a holiday message 🙄 (i was rd)
they changed the folders 😭
What usually comes in the folders
I won’t have to
oh oops did they
the admissions packages?
some people got a book and a personalized note
u get a little pennant
i forgot what else
yes and no LOL like there was some stuff i wanted to do in college that i mentioned but that i hadnt done in hs but ig it kinda connected
honestly i wouldnt worry too much about it
apply for the major you actually want to study
im sure theres some connections you can draw-- what you did in hs probably influenced what major you wanted to do even if its not directly correlated
okay 😞 thank youu
helpppppp
I remember when I stumbled across the UPS truck delivering all the acceptance letters
no
Omg our letters are in there!
ahh those stickers are so silly
That was like 2023
How did you know
😭😭😭
holy crap
but ik i am nowhere near qualified

He chillin
You gotta have hope
Nothing means anything except a decision
Tbh I think I’m way more prepared to get rejected than accepted
🙂↕️
It’s fine!
yeah i get that
Like, if I don’t get it, it’s fine
I’ll be sad for a bit, but there are other places I can go
But if I get in
Like
I’ve obsessed about this so much
But the possibility that I could go doesn’t even feel real
yeah this is my feeling too im just more upset abt having to write more essays
Columbia ED decisions are coming ur way!!
Yessss
You’re so real for that
I love that gif
That is us going to the airport to go to Columbia in August
We’re all going
help no matter what ur decision is i just want u to know u are so sweet and thoguhtful to everyone else here and ik u can do great things
just based off of ur personality alone
truly i have best wishes for you
Awww tysm
Everyone here is so supportive lol
My mom has flat out told me that I’m not getting in, so I need to get my positivity from somewhere
Sounds like my college counselor
its ur parents job to support you and be there for you... im so sorry
My biggest hater
No it’s fine
She’s just really anxious abt everything
she needs to be supportive of u though, damn
She’s terrified of failure lol
She’s supportive of me for trying
Like, she’s glad that I at least took the chance
yeah thats how my college counselor is
This is what I told myself while writing my essays lol
yes😼
4 and a half hours
She told me that if they reject me they’re missing out
awww haha
And go “they’re really missing out :(“
And then I’ll say “they could have admitted someone way better than me”
And show her my acceptance
Cet
I wish you luck
Guys there’s an early decision truck at Columbia rn LOL
wait I’ll send a pic
I wanna see my letter
brb
Also my calc teacher just said that I don’t have to sketch graphs for a problem set 🔥
This is our letters in the truck excited to get to our doors
I make memes sometimes
So I’m good at noticing images and gifs
And thinking of things that are true or funny
Guys campus is a winter wonderland rn
I can’t wait
It will be real for us trust
@fast parcel yo can you make the co30 server w me LOL you can leave it after
That’s a car
crazy what cohesive architectural style can do for a school
lol sure
😂
Every year discord is dead lowkey
This discord is so alive rn
The official one is active
i mean thats lowk just what happens 😞 people get their own friend groups
I hope they get pulled over
For covering their back plate
this is so sooooo cute
illinois plate 😭
so why exactly is there a car though
omg hi queen
IM GOOD I MISS U WHY DONT YOU TEXT ME
LOL he’s taking finals rn
is the core cooking you all 🥀
Wait till sophomore year bro
Yes
Fucking UW BRO
Fuck UW
I love LitHum tho
U either live or despite lithium
Lithum
Barnard core mogs
To give us both our letters
well yes
but im confused as to why the car is on campus
bcs well... they arent driving all the way down here to give me my letter iktr!
oh wait
😭 😭
is it to go to the post office to mail them help
Yes
also my core is lowkey totally differnet #artofengineering
I assume at least
Bc you’re excited
ok yes
Also if I get accepted I’m changing my name to tea-knitting-goingtocolumbia
are U SEAS?
u still have to take UW
As you should be
Bc this is your letter rn
yes yes yes 😝
I’m so hyped
oh.
What’s UW
university writing
Ohhhh
How many ppl use art of engineering project in their essays😭😭😭
I used it
LOL
i actually dont remember if i did or not
good luck :D anyone who gets in dm me ill invite u to the co30 server
What time does ed come out
7pm EST
Awww the early decision truck is out
is there a rd truck when they near desicions
yes
Yay letters for us!
3 hours and 24 minutes!
goated
Ofc
Also one of my teachers did grad school there
She’s so excited
She showed me her Columbia magnet today lol
its so over
the feeling of impending doom is horrible
broo im trying to doomscroll to svoid the stress but then i see columbiadmissions account 😭
i can’t message u
Yes
yea ive been out of school for like 2 hours
I’ve been at school this whole time lol
est tho*
i skipped school today
Look at the ones I made!
I would if you were here 😭
does it taste good?
Cookie update!
Haven’t tried one yet 😭
I didn’t know there were sparkles
Ofc
Yeah
wait the flower is really cute😭😭😭😭😭
Good luck
I went over the summer and did a tour at Columbia
I live in Seattle lol
awwww okay sick
OMG OKAY GOOD.
I LOVE SEATTLE
Yay!
did u apply udub
Did you?
yesss
Omg yay!
i love their campus so so much
It’s so nice
it’s so gorgeous
udub pretty asf i visited dec 2023 ❤️
also i just got home and got my hofstra letter in the mail this must be a sign😝
I used to do little weekend programs there when I was younger lol
It’s a sign trust
Update: the cookies taste good
yeah dw i was confused too
