Columbia University Early Decision for Fall 2024 Admissions

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This is the official thread for those applying ED to Columbia University.

List your unweighted GPA, any SAT /ACT scores, and ECs. What majors are you going into?
Ask your questions, the CC community is here to help!

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Submitted ED to Columbia today .

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Submitted yesterday. Have you received login details for the applicant portal?

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Submitted mine last week but haven’t receive any confirmation email or portal information. Is there anyone who received any information from Columbia? Thank you

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Not yet

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Not yet

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Hello, I applied to Columbia’s ED on November 1st. Unfortunately, I made a big mistake. I didn’t know that the supplements had to be submitted separately and didn’t click on submit and review until I realized today (November 5).

I know that this is a huge mistake.

What do you think my next steps should be?

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Received on Thursday

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Hello, I applied to Columbia’s ED on November 1st. Unfortunately, I made a big mistake. I didn’t know that the supplements had to be submitted separately and didn’t click on submit and review until I realized today (November 5).

I know that this is a huge mistake.

What do you think my next steps should be?

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I got accepted into Columbia through Questbridge today (ranked 1/9)!

Here’s some of my stats:

Intended Major: Political Science
Demographic: Black, Female, Midwest, FGLI

GPA: 4.0 UW/4.5 Weighted
Rank 3/370
Test-Optional
EC’s: 2 State Level Leadership, 1 National, Student Council, Speech (Leadership in all)
Awards: National Merit Commended Scholar, National African American Recognition Award, some very insignificant school awards

I’m really proud of my essays, recommendation letters, and EC’s. My application also had a ton of red flags:

  • Late Financial Aid (As in this Wednesday late)
  • Recommendation letter from a 10th grade teacher instead of 11/12th (but he coached 2 of my ECs and taught me in 2 classes)
  • Test Optional
  • Grades noticeably slipped junior year (went from 97% and high during freshman and sophomore year to a B and two A-minuses my junior year)

I think this proves that you don’t need to be the perfect applicant to get into a competitive school. Good luck to the rest of the prospective class of 2028!

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Congratulations! I am curious if you know how many other students matched at Columbia?

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87 Students matched with Columbia!

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Did you get a likely letter before final decision?

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I don’t think LL would be issued for QB match as they get matched with the highest school they ranked that accepts them.

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Anyone know exact day ED decisions will be released?

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The “checklist” (like the ED agreement, SAT score, recommendations) on my portal disappeared. Does this happen to everyone? Thanks

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I don’t know, but mine just disappeared too. I’m so scared, hahaha.

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Email from Columbia states result will be released on 12/14, 7pm eastern time… Good luck to all !

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Like I said, interested in why people are still in love with these schools. Am I not allowed to voice an opinion?

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