here’s a chat for waitlisted students for Columbia’s class of 2028. Let’s support each other through the process.
you can share your stats and anything you’ll find about the waitlist from past years here
Waitlist 4.1 uw. 4.4 weighted
Didn’t report sat
Lots of EC. Strong essays. Experience includes taking care of his mother in hospice at end of her life after 3 year battle with cancer. CS includes 3 summers working with former gang members for Father Boyle at Homeboy Industries in LA.
Columbia was his only Ivy. He has offers from Georgetown, Cal, USC and Boston College. Barring getting off Columbia WL, he’ll be ecstatic to attend Georgetown. But he will take a shot at getting off waitlist.
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I think many of the waitlisted students chose not to submit SAT scores. Not necessarily regretting the decision, just making an observation after reading a ton of comments from various threads. Hearing 20% chance of being accepted, but that seems high. Staying on the list.
D24
From Midwest
Did report Sat 1540
Rejected brown ED but Columbia was second choice
Has a full ride elsewhere but loves Columbia
Where was that stat? Seems so high
waitlisted here too! I hope I can get off the waitlist😭
We need to convince all those that got into another ivy and Columbia to pick the other one for us!
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What’s the AR after WL?
you let your intrusive thoughts win on this one 
nobody has a precise value because Columbia doesn’t share their stats about the waitlist. you can check at the common data set, it’s just blank.
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just hopeful for win-win – they get their Ivy and we get off the waitlist 
Wait?? I went over past CC thread for the CU waitlist to find out that they didn’t accept anyone from the waitlist for the past 2 years
depressing tbh
And out of date. Columbia typically didn’t publish in CDS data until the scandal with their math professor poking holes in their USNWR data put a spotlight on their lack of transparency. Then they briefly published a modified CDS for 2 years that striped their General Studies admission stats out separately. Then once they decided to stop participating in the USNWR rankings last year they quietly stopped doing the CDS again. Which is why they never put out one that covered last year’s admission cycle.
They let in some last year but who knows how many. Did you all claim your spot? Or waiting to claim at the time you submit LOCI?
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I claimed my spot on the waitlist but haven’t turned in LOCI yet. Planning to do so this weekend.
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for anyone that applied for aid, can you guys still access your fiancial aid portal? I have my info saved on my computer that ive used for months but all of a sudden its not working. saying like wrong password or info or something. I submitted by LOCI the day after ivy day
i can access it with my password and columbia id, but i can only see homepage with my name and contacts of the financial aid offices; i can no longer see which documents i submitted / was required to submit
I wonder if I should just change my password and try to go in again