Columbia 2011! Forum

[r6_philly]

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This is depressing

Don't be, I like the people on this list.

[dabbadon8]

Doesn't look great for us non-holds. On LSN looks like a big wave of WL/Dings in the second week of february. Only an occasional acceptance here or there.

[4102011]

For the non-holds:

Form:

--LinkRemoved--

Spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... y=COCx7rcG

[bistduverrueckt]

Doesn't look great for us non-holds. On LSN looks like a big wave of WL/Dings in the second week of february. Only an occasional acceptance here or there.

Don't say that! There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this yet so maybe the pattern will be different from last year?

Please Columbia? I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a VCE.

[akikaze]

Doesn't look great for us non-holds. On LSN looks like a big wave of WL/Dings in the second week of february. Only an occasional acceptance here or there.

Don't say that! There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this yet so maybe the pattern will be different from last year?

Please Columbia? I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a VCE.

I mean, I wouldn't put too much confidence into comparing this year's calendar versus last year's, particularly since December LSAT results came out very very late this cycle. Columbia may very well be generally displeased with the kind of applicants it's getting, and taking a closer look at what were (last year) borderline candidates. Who knows? But in both pools there are clearly auto-admit candidates (based on stats). But the non-hold pool may be receiving both acceptance and rejection letters this week by snail mail. (I don't think we have any reported emailed rejections so far.)

[mel2010]

Either that or, as was mentioned before, there will be an anti-climactic moment when the holds start pouring in again at 8am...

[r6_philly]

Doesn't look great for us non-holds. On LSN looks like a big wave of WL/Dings in the second week of february. Only an occasional acceptance here or there.

The numbers of the non-holds people are not all WL/reject numbers...

[mel2010]

For the non-holds:

Form:

--LinkRemoved--

Spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... y=COCx7rcG

Please sir, could I have some more...sorting by index? Not that it changes anything.

[alphamoose]

Am I wrong for thinking it's not necessarily good or bad to be in either group?

The Forgotten: a mix of dings, WLs and acceptances are coming soon
Held: same mix as above... just later

[bdubs]

Doesn't look great for us non-holds. On LSN looks like a big wave of WL/Dings in the second week of february. Only an occasional acceptance here or there.

Don't say that! There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this yet so maybe the pattern will be different from last year?

Please Columbia? I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a VCE.

I mean, I wouldn't put too much confidence into comparing this year's calendar versus last year's, particularly since December LSAT results came out very very late this cycle. Columbia may very well be generally displeased with the kind of applicants it's getting, and taking a closer look at what were (last year) borderline candidates. Who knows? But in both pools there are clearly auto-admit candidates (based on stats). But the non-hold pool may be receiving both acceptance and rejection letters this week by snail mail. (I don't think we have any reported emailed rejections so far.)

We know that as of early December there were ~200 fewer 170+ applicants in the pool and December test takers were down 16.5%. This means that unless there was stronger 170+ yield from December, the total number of 170+ applicants in the pool is down a fairly significant amount.

No one really knows what that means, but it seems to have schools slowing down their decision processes.

[bistduverrueckt]

The numbers of the non-holds people are not all WL/reject numbers...

+1 I like the way you think philly

[mel2010]

Am I wrong for thinking it's not necessarily good or bad to be in either group?

The Forgotten: a mix of dings, WLs and acceptances are coming soon
Held: same mix as above... just later

Hah, TITCR.

[4102011]

For the non-holds:

Form:

--LinkRemoved--

Spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... y=COCx7rcG

Please sir, could I have some more...sorting by index? Not that it changes anything.

Sorted, but not everyone provided that info. If someone wants to post the formula again I can put it in there if it's not too complicated.

[Curry]

For the non-holds:

Form:

--LinkRemoved--

Spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... y=COCx7rcG

Please sir, could I have some more...sorting by index? Not that it changes anything.

Sorted, but not everyone provided that info. If someone wants to post the formula again I can put it in there if it's not too complicated.

Your spreadsheet skills impress me, dulc.

[akikaze]

We know that as of early December there were ~200 fewer 170+ applicants in the pool and December test takers were down 16.5%. This means that unless there was stronger 170+ yield from December, the total number of 170+ applicants in the pool is down a fairly significant amount.

No one really knows what that means, but it seems to have schools slowing down their decision processes.

Hmm thanks, didn't know that!! That's good news -- I'm not too surprised, though. The classes of '08 and '09 were hammered by the recession -- 2010 seems to be making out comparatively very well. Makes sense that fewer upper-tier candidates are pursuing law school at the moment.

[mel2010]

For the non-holds:

Form:

--LinkRemoved--

Spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... y=COCx7rcG

Please sir, could I have some more...sorting by index? Not that it changes anything.

Sorted, but not everyone provided that info. If someone wants to post the formula again I can put it in there if it's not too complicated.

0.045(LSAT)+0.559(GPA)-5.512, if LSAC is to be believed.

[Siamsa414]

I got a small white envelope from Columbia and nearly died. It was just a letter from their Outlaw group, though. Which was kind of cool to get but not worth the heart attack and subsequent resignation to my fate. Of course, I then remembered that Columbia dings via e-mail anyway.

[r6_philly]

The numbers of the non-holds people are not all WL/reject numbers...

+1 I like the way you think philly

Actually I'd hazard to guess the WL/Reject group should be the bigger group. I thin we are all IN!!! Ha!

[mel2010]

Your spreadsheet skills impress me, dulc.

Also, +1 and thanks dulc

[bdubs]

The numbers of the non-holds people are not all WL/reject numbers...

+1 I like the way you think philly

Actually I'd hazard to guess the WL/Reject group should be the bigger group. I thin we are all IN!!! Ha!

If they want yield, I will give them yield

[mel2010]

This spreadsheet update work with google docs could be a spectator sport, if you had spectators as lame as me...

[padthai]

People! What happened to this thread?! I missed out on all the hype.
Read 7 pgs then gave up and skipped from pg 233-->245
Also a non-hold here!

[The Stig]

If you look at the "CLS Clusterf 2011" versus the "CLS Holds" spreadsheets, there seems to be an overarching difference in submission date. The non-held people seem to be mostly december or later, while the held people seem to be mostly pre-december.

I would guess that the non-held people with early submission dates have VCEs either in the 1/28 wave or they have been delayed in the mail, and the later submission date people just have to wait for either a VCE or a hold/waitlist....

it is also possible that those that haven't heard back with early submission dates might be in for a ding (based off the index number), but that is not possible, because you all are getting VCEs

[Knock]

If you look at the "CLS Clusterf 2011" versus the "CLS Holds" spreadsheets, there seems to be an overarching difference in submission date. The non-held people seem to be mostly december or later, while the held people seem to be mostly pre-december.

I would guess that the non-held people with early submission dates have VCEs either in the 1/28 wave or they have been delayed in the mail, and the later submission date people just have to wait for either a VCE or a hold/waitlist....

Sound reasonable?

Thanks for the laugh, whoever named the first spreadsheet . This theory does seem very reasonable!

[4102011]

People! What happened to this thread?! I missed out on all the hype.
Read 7 pgs then gave up and skipped from pg 233-->245
Also a non-hold here!

FILL OUT THE SPREADSHEET.

Now sorted by index, lovingly calculated by yours truly for those of you too lazy to put it in <3

& that would be me, knock. I name my spreadsheets classy things.