<p>yes! penn is also my second choice :)</p>
<p>AHHH i would be so happy if i were to be accepted. no more staying up until 11:11 to make a wish!!</p>
<p>i wouldn’t mind a deferral…i really like columbia and i would love a second chance to be accepted.</p>
<p>how many people can get in per school</p>
<p>got the letter for dec 10 notification
yay
god bless all of you</p>
<p>yossimaz they don’t place those kind of limits. last year in my school three kids got into Princeton and we rarely send kids to top schools</p>
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<p>cutest thing ever.</p>
<p>This is official!!! I just received the email</p>
<p>The Columbia community is committed to environmental responsibility; in keeping with this commitment, we will provide some admissions decisions only online, not via regular mail. You may request that a copy of your decision letter be mailed to you after you receive it online; further instructions will be available when you check your decision. We plan to post all decisions here on Thursday, December 10, 2009, after 5:00pm (Eastern Time).</p>
<p>I just got the email also. I’m so anxious for Thursday.</p>
<p>@Yossimaz: lamest question</p>
<p>Yeah I can’t understand for the life of me why anyone would want a rejection over being deferred. Don’t get me wrong, I can understand where having a plain yes or no would be nice, but if I’m deferred I’ll still be able to hold onto some hope about getting in (being the optimist I am) and can analyze what went wrong ED and try to prove my worth in RD. Bottom line, I know that they saw something that made me worth a second look. Heck, even if they weren’t to accept me RD at least by the time the actual rejection came around in April (I hope) I’d have some other acceptances to ease my mind and fall back on. Getting rejected now, I’d have nothing to hold onto and very little confidence while completing my other apps. to highly competitive colleges (although I’m sure those of us who get rejected will still go great places!) So those of you who say getting deferred is worse than rejection, I highly doubt that you’d be saying that come Thursday. Then again, maybe I’m missing something…</p>
<p>BUT DON’T GET ME WRONG, I WANT A FREAKING ACCEPTANCE. :)</p>
<p>aldksjg;sdg</p>
<p>i won’t be able to do any hw or studying this week…</p>
<p>how much does the essay count for?</p>
<p>Well, I see it this way: either get rejected and move on, knowing you have nothing else to hold on to, or if you’re accepted… well then college apps are over for you! But if you’re deferred, you’re going to be clinging on to the hope of RD admission while working on other apps, which I think will definitely be detrimental to aforesaid apps.</p>
<p>i can’t write my damn english paper-- i really don’t like pride and prejudice. </p>
<p>and i think the essay counts for quite a lot- i think that it sums up your credentials/passions/character all into one conclusion.</p>
<p>I can’t write my English paper either
we’re all like the same, neurotic people:P
Thursday is going to come soo slowly…</p>
<p>facebook after we get in? :)</p>
<p>I don’t think the essay can count for that much. I’d like to think it counts for a lot, but essays can be written by non-applicants like tutors, paid students, or even parents. I don’t know how much they can trust the essays.</p>
<p>wow. I just refreshed my e-mail for the hundredth time, and there it was. thursday. this is really it, huh? seems so surreal.</p>
<p>yeah definatley facebook IF we get in</p>
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<p>o and I already joined the group btw</p>
<p>I disagree. From every admissions officer I’ve spoken to at all sorts of schools (big, small, private, public, Ivy, etc…), I’m confident that they would never asssume the worst about essays. If they were to be overly cautious about essays, they’d do the same for activity sheets/resumes and even recommendation letters.</p>
<p>As far as I know, nobody will look at your application and make the assumption that you may not have written your essay yourself. That’s partly why they have the agreement you have to sign or check off on every app - the one that says something along the lines of “I verify that all the info on this application is my original work, and that it is all true.”</p>
<p>The link that says ‘here’ on my e-mail doesn’t work. Is it not activated until Thursday, 5:00 EST or something? Or is my e-mail just messed up?</p>