<p>@neiro6- Oh definitely, I’ve already started thinking about what I’d write for a status if I get in. And, I’d change my profile picture to the one of me with my Columbia sweatshirt looking out over the school into the streets of Morningside Heights, and I’d change my education. People will know, dammit.</p>
<p>I have a small graduating class, and I’m the only one in my school who’s applying to Columbia at all, so basically everyone knows. My plan is just to tell as many people as quickly as I can, beat them to the punch. And whenever it’s come up in conservation lately, I’ve mentioned how I won’t be absolutely crushed if I don’t get in.</p>
<p>Does anyone else keep on kind of forgetting that deferment is an option? Like my mind’s treating it in black and white, ignoring that shade of gray.</p>
<p>I, too, would love to post 2016 on Facebook. I’m going to agree, a notice that an application is being processed through the fin aid office seems like a very foretelling sign (a positive one). I also think that it is a fair assumption that most of those whose grades were requested fair a better shot. One thing I read in the Stanford ED thread interested me, though. They faced the same confusion about grade requests. One CCer put it nicely. They said Stanford is only trying to gather information to accept you, not reject you. They are looking to see upward trends, not reasons to deny admission, they don’t have time for that. I found that interesting and figured the same might be true for Columbia.</p>
<p>I think that at this point (T minus 2 days, 20 hours, 20 minutes) it is silly to debate possible contingencies and the meaning of inconsequential signals from Columbia. We are all anxious (even me with 3 Nobel Prizes under my belt ) but I think that instead of making each other more nervous by debating and speculating, we should just talk about fun stuff. Favorite TV shows, books, movies, jokes, share some funny youtube vids etc. Ya know…get our minds off the obvious big-ass elephant in the room. </p>
<p>ps. bonus points for anyone who knows why I called y’all droogs. (NO GOOGLE)</p>
<p>@theamazing: Two people applied through Questbridge from my school and neither of them were selected as finalists so their applications were deferred. There was a definite sense of disappointment around them, and I feel like everyone treated that as a rejection, so in terms of the attitudes of my peers’, they are sort of black-and-white.</p>
<p>Edit: Droogs = a clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess.</p>
<p>@schemmy888 thanks for your input We will find out soon enough. Anyway I am glad to know that my application hasn’t been tossed aside.</p>
<p>Fortunately I finished high school last month. We’re on our separate ways now; nobody would care unless somebody gets admitted and celebrates it on Facebook.</p>
<p>Clockwork Orange, natch. Never read the book or seen the movie, but I’ve been an avid TV Troper since I was roughly 12.</p>
<p>Also I concur. What’s done is done. Today in English class, a bunch of us were just sharing fun/embarrassing/violent childhood memories. It was awesome.</p>
<p>Like for example, once in second grade we were having a running-backwards race across my school’s GIANT soccer fields. I mean, this was about the size of three normal sized fields. Now the soccer goals, of which there were only two, had posts roughly four inches in diameter. Four inches, in a sea of green.</p>
<p>Guess who ran smack into one, backwards, and slumped to the ground. I may or may not have had a mild concussion.
It was hilarious.</p>
<p>@nondairycreamer: Well, from what I understand of the admissions process, a regional admissions officer reviews the applications, so it makes sense that if you’re compared to other applicants from your same region, you are /definitely/ compared to applicants from the same school as you. Being the only person from your grade to apply would make the competition, in my opinion, slightly less cutthroat.</p>
<p>@amody33 - have you checked the financial aid tracking form? If it says it’s been received, you can probably assume they’ve figured it out… otherwise CALL NOW.</p>
<p>It hasn’t been received. I sent an e-mail and and left a message a few days ago with the financial aid office. I haven’t received a call and the e-mail response only talked about tax forms</p>
<p>@amody33 I would keep calling until you get them on the phone. Are you able to sneak into a bathroom during a school day? I called them at 11ish one day and I didn’t even get put on hold. It was very nice :)</p>
<p>@theamazing: In some ways, I feel like being deferred might be worse (especially because I doubt that the admissions rate for deferred applicants is any higher than regular admissions, and probably a lot lower) because I won’t channel as much energy as I would into other applications.</p>
) but I think that instead of making each other more nervous by debating and speculating, we should just talk about fun stuff. Favorite TV shows, books, movies, jokes, share some funny youtube vids etc. Ya know…get our minds off the obvious big-ass elephant in the room. </p>
We will find out soon enough. Anyway I am glad to know that my application hasn’t been tossed aside.</p>