Columbia 2011! Forum

[justhoping]

Maybe the WL letter will come and make me give up.

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does WL have any chance of admission? I think I'm doomed for WL from all schools (and a couple accepts and rejects in the mix), sigh...

[Knock]

Maybe the WL letter will come and make me give up.

does WL have any chance of admission? I think I'm doomed for WL from all schools (and a couple accepts and rejects in the mix), sigh...[/quote]

They have a chance, just not a good one. Although, since apps are down, some are theorizing that schools are being more conservative until they can gauge the entire application pool, so maybe there will be more people enrolled off wait lists compared to last year.

[Knock]

Time for my 4pm sandwich and wait for the mailman .

[arism87]

Time for my 4pm sandwich and wait for the mailman .

I envision you in shorts and flip flops, windows open in the sun, as we sit here in frigid, dark, cold on the east coast...

[akikaze]

Our Columbia status checker will not say anything other than "Complete" when a decision has been reached, will it?

No, "complete" until you graduate.

Then it says, "Decision letter sent."

Thanks boys =]
I'm 171/3.8X from Berkeley and feel like I'm a pretty borderline candidate based on some of the crazy stats I've been seeing here. (Also have good softs, but they hardly matter from what I'm hearing...). Columbia is my #1 choice btw.

Edit: Berkeley's data for placement into Columbia in the past (https://career.berkeley.edu/Law/LawStats.stm) makes me think that I have a decent shot; I would assume that many candidates for a numbers-oriented school like Columbia who were *accepted* but did not *matriculate* (matriculated at YHS or even Berkeley itself) would skew the stats indicated there...

[Knock]

Our Columbia status checker will not say anything other than "Complete" when a decision has been reached, will it?

No, "complete" until you graduate.

Then it says, "Decision letter sent."

Thanks boys =]
I'm 171/3.8X from Berkeley and feel like I'm a pretty borderline candidate based on some of the crazy stats I've been seeing here. (Also have good softs, but they hardly matter from what I'm hearing...)

Similar numbers to me, I figure we're about a 50/50 shot.

[Knock]

Time for my 4pm sandwich and wait for the mailman .

I envision you in shorts and flip flops, windows open in the sun, as we sit here in frigid, dark, cold on the east coast...

It's been beautiful for the past couple of weeks. I took some gorgeous pics of the mountains and blue sky, now if I can only figure out how to remove geo-tagging.

[tgir]

Butler-flavored vomit in Boston! Yummeh.

[ahduth]

Similar numbers to me, I figure we're about a 50/50 shot.

Have people still been filling out that spreadsheet? Are the indices matching last year's trends?

[akikaze]

Butler-flavored vomit in Boston! Yummeh.

Congrats =]

[Dany]

Butler-flavored vomit in Boston! Yummeh.

Whoa, congrats!!!

[Knock]

Butler-flavored vomit in Boston! Yummeh.

Congrats =]

Congrats Tgir! Awesome cycle so far, where are you leaning?

[Knock]

Similar numbers to me, I figure we're about a 50/50 shot.

Have people still been filling out that spreadsheet? Are the indices matching last year's trends?

Yes, fill out the spreadsheet. And so far, it appears that many more borderline applicants have heard back in the first wave proportionally compared to higher index applicants.

[absolutazn87]

No VCE here in NYC...but i got my GULC packets

Postmarked 1/25.

Hope....almost...dead.

[akikaze]

Similar numbers to me, I figure we're about a 50/50 shot.

Have people still been filling out that spreadsheet? Are the indices matching last year's trends?

Yes, fill out the spreadsheet. And so far, it appears that many more borderline applicants have heard back in the first wave proportionally compared to higher index applicants.

Uh-oh; I went complete in early January.

[Dany]

Yes, fill out the spreadsheet. And so far, it appears that many more borderline applicants have heard back in the first wave proportionally compared to higher index applicants.

I didn't study the spreadsheet much, but it looked that way to me, too...

[tgir]

Butler-flavored vomit in Boston! Yummeh.

Congrats =]

Congrats Tgir! Awesome cycle so far, where are you leaning?

Thanks, Knock! Still leaning towards Stanford, I think. A Hamilton would have been very hard to turn down; a Butler, while awesome, is probably not enough to pull me away from sunny California.

[arism87]

Similar numbers to me, I figure we're about a 50/50 shot.

Have people still been filling out that spreadsheet? Are the indices matching last year's trends?

Yes, fill out the spreadsheet. And so far, it appears that many more borderline applicants have heard back in the first wave proportionally compared to higher index applicants.

:'( as a borderline applicant, this does not bode well for me.. but no matter how many times I tell myself this, some part of me will secretly be holding out hope that I got mixed up in the scholarship pile.. at least until the WL notice comes.

[tgir]

Butler-flavored vomit in Boston! Yummeh.

Whoa, congrats!!!

Thanks, eskimo!

[akikaze]

Similar numbers to me, I figure we're about a 50/50 shot.

Have people still been filling out that spreadsheet? Are the indices matching last year's trends?

Yes, fill out the spreadsheet. And so far, it appears that many more borderline applicants have heard back in the first wave proportionally compared to higher index applicants.

:'( as a borderline applicant, this does not bode well for me.. but no matter how many times I tell myself this, some part of me will secretly be holding out hope that I got mixed up in the scholarship pile.. at least until the WL notice comes.

I don't think you're a borderline applicant at all -- I would be pretty optimistic if I were you.

[tgir]

:'( as a borderline applicant, this does not bode well for me.. but no matter how many times I tell myself this, some part of me will secretly be holding out hope that I got mixed up in the scholarship pile.. at least until the WL notice comes.

I don't think you're a borderline applicant at all -- I would be pretty optimistic if I were you.

+1

[arism87]

:'( as a borderline applicant, this does not bode well for me.. but no matter how many times I tell myself this, some part of me will secretly be holding out hope that I got mixed up in the scholarship pile.. at least until the WL notice comes.

I don't think you're a borderline applicant at all -- I would be pretty optimistic if I were you.

+1

Much thanks to you both! I know I'm above both medians, but according to LSN last year my odds would've been only slightly better than 50/50.

[akikaze]

:'( as a borderline applicant, this does not bode well for me.. but no matter how many times I tell myself this, some part of me will secretly be holding out hope that I got mixed up in the scholarship pile.. at least until the WL notice comes.

I don't think you're a borderline applicant at all -- I would be pretty optimistic if I were you.

+1

Much thanks to you both! I know I'm above both medians, but according to LSN last year my odds would've been only slightly better than 50/50.

A thing about LSN: it strikes me as a self-selecting pool for people who have the stats and (frankly) little else. At Columbia, the median LSAT is 172 and yet that means that 50% of people have that or below, with 25% at 170 or below. And I just don't see enough green dots to think that we're getting the whole story. People who have excellent softs, etc. don't seem to post on there.

With the TFA experience, a solid GPA (ideally from a reputable univ.), and a 172, I would say that you're definitely under consideration at Harvard.

[arism87]

A thing about LSN: it strikes me as a self-selecting pool for people who have the stats and (frankly) little else. At Columbia, the median LSAT is 172 and yet that means that 50% of people have that or below, with 25% at 170 or below. And I just don't see enough green dots to think that we're getting the whole story. People who have excellent softs, etc. don't seem to post on there.

With the TFA experience, a solid GPA (ideally from a reputable univ.), and a 172, I would say that you're definitely under consideration at Harvard.

You're my new favorite TLSer

(I was "held" at Harvard though.. just happy to not be a ding *yet* lol)

[WestOfTheRest]

A thing about LSN: it strikes me as a self-selecting pool for people who have the stats and (frankly) little else. At Columbia, the median LSAT is 172 and yet that means that 50% of people have that or below, with 25% at 170 or below. And I just don't see enough green dots to think that we're getting the whole story. People who have excellent softs, etc. don't seem to post on there.

With the TFA experience, a solid GPA (ideally from a reputable univ.), and a 172, I would say that you're definitely under consideration at Harvard.

What are you basing this bullshit on? You win stupid post of the week.