Columbia c/o 2015 Applicants (2011-2012 cycle) Forum

[unknownnumbers]

I am still waiting to hear back after a grade request... they have my stuff but told me i might not hear until january

[jjcheng]

Merry fucking Christmas, in at Columbia via email this morning! (Dec. 24 China Standard Time)

Best. Christmas present. Ever.

[suspicious android]

Wow, congratulations, that's a great way to hear!

So at least some admits went out today, makes me think that they've made decisions and have just decided not to send out deferals/rejections the day before Christmas. Which is probably a good idea.

[EMZE]

I spoke to a member of the adcomm yesterday that I was put in contact with a while back. He says they only try to get the responses out before the new year (insinuating they work post xmas pre new year), and that they give responses as the files complete. They applicant is typically notified once a decision is made. So, that said, I wouldn't put too much stock in the whole bacth thing.

Could be wrong, but that's what the guy at CLS told me

[semicollante]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[username08]

I'm feeling it today...or maybe tomorrow....or maybe Friday. Too many EDers with awesome numbers still out there for all of us to be waitlisted/rejected.

[unknownnumbers]

does anyone know how much delay is typically added as a result of a grade request?

[Nobody]

The lack of responses one way or another at this point makes me think that they're not sending any out this week. There's nothing in the ED contract that requires them to answer by January 1.

[danielhay11]

The lack of responses one way or another at this point makes me think that they're not sending any out this week. There's nothing in the ED contract that requires them to answer by January 1.

I emailed CLS over the weekend about another matter, and in their reply I was told that the office has been closed since Thursday, and just reopened this morning at 9.

[Nobody]

Of course it opens just when I finally convince myself that there's no point in waiting for anything this week.

[bluthbanana]

any people with grade requests switch to regular?

[unknownnumbers]

IN!!!!! Accepted, 175, 3.75 gpa, grade request and dean's cert requested

[addy11]

IN!!!!! Accepted, 175, 3.75 gpa, grade request and dean's cert requested

Amazing! Congrats to you!! I mean, I didn't have much doubt, but that is really great. Cheers!

[unknownnumbers]

IN!!!!! Accepted, 175, 3.75 gpa, grade request and dean's cert requested

Amazing! Congrats to you!! I mean, I didn't have much doubt, but that is really great. Cheers!

thank you

[Take Two]

Congrats!

[crumpledq]

IN!!!!! Accepted, 175, 3.75 gpa, grade request and dean's cert requested

Hooray! Congratulations!!!

[djkrish]

IN!!!!! Accepted, 175, 3.75 gpa, grade request and dean's cert requested

Congrats! When did your application complete and did you find out via snail mail?

[Nobody]

Just rejected ED for reconsideration in April. 3.34 174. I was definitely a long shot, but I'm seriously gonna feel stupid if I don't get into NYU RD.

[EMZE]

Do all decisions regardless of type come via pdf?

[username08]

Just rejected ED for reconsideration in April. 3.34 174. I was definitely a long shot, but I'm seriously gonna feel stupid if I don't get into NYU RD.

Sorry to hear that...

With that LSAT score, though, I'm sure you'll definitely get into NYU.

[Nobody]

Yeah, I'll just feel kind of stupid if NYU RD is a lot more selective. No regrets, though, really, since Columbia was really the only school that I had enough of an emotional connection to to warrant ED. It'd still be nice to get to go to school in the city, though.

Good luck to you, though I'm sure you won't need it with your GPA.

[addy11]

Yeah, I'll just feel kind of stupid if NYU RD is a lot more selective. No regrets, though, really, since Columbia was really the only school that I had enough of an emotional connection to to warrant ED. It'd still be nice to get to go to school in the city, though.

Good luck to you, though I'm sure you won't need it with your GPA.

Oddly it seems like Columbia ED is more selective than NYU RD this cycle. Despair not!

[EMZE]

My pipe dream was dashed with a deferral this morning, I remembered reading somewhere that they sent scanned pdfs of acceptances, and I got a pdf in an email that I couldn't open with my phone, so I was bugging out a bit, but it would seem deferrals come in the same fashion!

Stats are well below normal admits, in fact below most of the rejects (167/3.4/non-URM) but my softs are the rare and unique kind in an already rare field that have already led to me getting accepted at schools LSP had at auto-deny, so I don't believe I was too foolish in my efforts.

I have to gleaned based on my review of past posts that a deferral from ED is something that, well, is not much better than a rejection. Granted, at a school with a 15% acceptance rate or whatever, hard to really tell whats what, but is it pretty much the case such that those who have been deferred to RD have really aleady had their shot, and their best chance is a waitlist? Didn't find a lot in last years threads that gave much hope either.

Something else I wanted to comment on was that CLS mentioned in the deferral letter that this years early decision applicant pool has been stronger than ever before. Though the program doesn't exactly have some decades long history from which to really draw great statistics from, it would seem to run counter to all the expectations that this would be the most generous cycle since the downturn of the legal market/LSAT takers. I've tried to make the leap in my mind as to what would cause that, what with all the strange and out of range (typically at the lower end) acceptances we have seen from other schools that would make this the case at CLS. Maybe more people feel they have a shot and are ED'ng to Columbia, whereas in other circumstances they would have ED'd somewhere in the MPV range?

So, I guess all told this is bitter sweet in that, as someone with my numbers who should be an auto reject, period, was deferred. Maybe it makes sense, as it appears schools really don't seem to use ED for marginal applicants, rather to secure (at least one) median improving applicants. I can only hope they save room for softies like me at the end. Checking out the "reserved" and "waitlisted" threads from last year is heartbreaking. Not to mention the prospect of waiting until April for a decision. No, not decision, re-review. As a man with a family, a house, and a dog and cat, moving is not easy and dorms aren't options.

Thats my rant. Best of luck to all. Comment if you like, since this threads been dead anyway.

[PigBodine]

Yeah, I'll just feel kind of stupid if NYU RD is a lot more selective. No regrets, though, really, since Columbia was really the only school that I had enough of an emotional connection to to warrant ED. It'd still be nice to get to go to school in the city, though.

Good luck to you, though I'm sure you won't need it with your GPA.

NYU and columbia are both odd in that they don't seem to give any kind of bump for ED. Your chances are the same either way, so don't sweat not having ED'd NYU.

[Nelson]

Maybe it makes sense, as it appears schools really don't seem to use ED for marginal applicants, rather to secure (at least one) median improving applicants.

This is probably true for most schools and TCR on TLS. ED is friendly to splitters at schools like UVA because they lock in someone who helps one of their medians/75ths. I don't think NYU or Columbia ever had ED boosts significant enough to bump someone below both medians into an admit. I don't think Columbia and NYU are particularly friendly to softs either, they both have a reputation for being heavily numbers-driven schools.

Not sure where else you applied (you're in at GULC right?) but you still also have a shot at some of the other more softs-friendly T14s like Michigan or Boalt if you applied.