Columbia c/o 2018 Applicants (2014-2015 cycle) Forum

[BillsFan9907]

Nope! Nothing on my end either!

[smile0751]

So is not getting an interview request anything to worry about? I'm GPA>75th and 50th>LSAT>75th and haven't heard a thing from them.

Right there with you with no invite and I'm trying not to worry about it. Columbia says they don't interview everyone but I know when the first non-interviewee gets accepted I will breathe a sigh of relief.

Yeah, I'm below a 25th percentile (by a fair bit) and they are interviewing me. So in my limited experience/sample, I think it's for marginal candidates or people where they may have one or two things they want to question more about. I bet they wont interview the perfect candidates.

[hillz]

So is not getting an interview request anything to worry about? I'm GPA>75th and 50th>LSAT>75th and haven't heard a thing from them.

Right there with you with no invite and I'm trying not to worry about it. Columbia says they don't interview everyone but I know when the first non-interviewee gets accepted I will breathe a sigh of relief.

Yeah, I'm below a 25th percentile (by a fair bit) and they are interviewing me. So in my limited experience/sample, I think it's for marginal candidates or people where they may have one or two things they want to question more about. I bet they wont interview the perfect candidates.

Xylo said it also seemed to be for scholarship purposes last year, so who knows?!

[foamborn]

i believe they are interviewing autoadmits.

[curlietop86]

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[Mack.Hambleton]

i believe they are interviewing autoadmits.

what's an autoadmit?

High stats

[curlietop86]

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[Sacred Cow]

To those of you who were unable to sign up for an interview because none of the dates were available - have you heard back from CLS in response to your email? I'm getting a little nervous since today would be day five of the five days they gave us to book an appointment.

They got back to me today. They opened more interview slots between Jan 20th and the 23rd.

[DK21]

Seems like a lot of speculation about the meaning of the interviews, is there anything instructive we know from last year's interviewees?

[RSN]

To those of you who were unable to sign up for an interview because none of the dates were available - have you heard back from CLS in response to your email? I'm getting a little nervous since today would be day five of the five days they gave us to book an appointment.

They got back to me today. They opened more interview slots between Jan 20th and the 23rd.

[xylocarp]

Seems like a lot of speculation about the meaning of the interviews, is there anything instructive we know from last year's interviewees?

from last year, it seems like everyone who was interviewed was borderline in one way or another — some were borderline admits, and some were borderline Hamilton/Butler candidates. people who were interviewed got held, later WLed, admitted, and admitted with Hamiltons/Butlers. I don't think many (any?) interviewees got straight denied though.

[kingpin101]

i believe they are interviewing autoadmits.

what's an autoadmit?

High stats

aaah. i falsify that hypothesis - i'm media GPA, 25th percentile LSAT, and interviewing next week.

To be fair, he didn't say only autoadmits.

[blueberrycrumble]

Seems like a lot of speculation about the meaning of the interviews, is there anything instructive we know from last year's interviewees?

from last year, it seems like everyone who was interviewed was borderline in one way or another — some were borderline admits, and some were borderline Hamilton/Butler candidates. people who were interviewed got held, later WLed, admitted, and admitted with Hamiltons/Butlers. I don't think many (any?) interviewees got straight denied though.

were there people who received hamilton/butler but did not interview?

[Mack.Hambleton]

Yeah I'm pretty sure

[xylocarp]

yeah there def were

[curlietop86]

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[accessislife]

So is not getting an interview request anything to worry about? I'm GPA>75th and 50th>LSAT>75th and haven't heard a thing from them.

Right there with you with no invite and I'm trying not to worry about it. Columbia says they don't interview everyone but I know when the first non-interviewee gets accepted I will breathe a sigh of relief.

Yeah, I'm below a 25th percentile (by a fair bit) and they are interviewing me. So in my limited experience/sample, I think it's for marginal candidates or people where they may have one or two things they want to question more about. I bet they wont interview the perfect candidates.

mind sharing your complete date?

best of luck on the interview!

[musedreverie]

So is not getting an interview request anything to worry about? I'm GPA>75th and 50th>LSAT>75th and haven't heard a thing from them.

Right there with you with no invite and I'm trying not to worry about it. Columbia says they don't interview everyone but I know when the first non-interviewee gets accepted I will breathe a sigh of relief.

Yeah, I'm below a 25th percentile (by a fair bit) and they are interviewing me. So in my limited experience/sample, I think it's for marginal candidates or people where they may have one or two things they want to question more about. I bet they wont interview the perfect candidates.

Hmm, but from the interview offers people posted ITT, there seem to be perfect candidates (number wise; i.e. above median/75th for both) who received the interview offer so I'm not too sure about that assumption either

[GordonFreeman]

No one has been accepted RD yet, correct? They usually start rolling them out at the end of January via snail mail, right?

[Mack.Hambleton]

No one has been accepted RD yet, correct? They usually start rolling them out at the end of the month via snail mail, right?

Yes

[GreenEggs]

After submitting a little over a month ago I recieved an email from CLS saying my application is not complete and that my study abroad transcript is absent, and that I need it in order to be complete.

Is this normal? I was caught by total surprise considering that LSAC did not ask for this transcript (falls under the category I don't need to submit it for).

[GordonFreeman]

After submitting a little over a month ago I recieved an email from CLS saying my application is not complete and that my study abroad transcript is absent, and that I need it in order to be complete.

Is this normal? I was caught by total surprise considering that LSAC did not ask for this transcript (falls under the category I don't need to submit it for).

I also took an inordinate amount of time to go complete. I called, and it turned out I was missing something as well. Please do not be concerned.

[Mack.Hambleton]

After submitting a little over a month ago I recieved an email from CLS saying my application is not complete and that my study abroad transcript is absent, and that I need it in order to be complete.

Is this normal? I was caught by total surprise considering that LSAC did not ask for this transcript (falls under the category I don't need to submit it for).

they do a lot of weird shit like this and are always really slow

[tal18]

Anyone with the experience of the interviews under their belt, it would be great to hear a bit about the experience. Based on the calendar they look like they must move very quickly...

[DK21]

Anyone with the experience of the interviews under their belt, it would be great to hear a bit about the experience. Based on the calendar they look like they must move very quickly...

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