<p>if I want to defer, do I respond yes to the question that I will attend the class of 2014?</p>
<p>i was accpeted but need to take a year off</p>
<p>You respond that you attend the Class of 2014 and then you send the admissions office (I think it was Dean Diane McKoy in the past) a letter or email requesting a deferral for a year and why you want it (what you will do during that year). Later on in the spring they will send you the formal respnse. Then next year you need to send them another letter or email saying you will join the Class of 2015.</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 670CR, 730M, 730W= 2130
ACT: didn’t take it
SAT II: 690 Math 2 660 Lit
GPA: UW: 3.99 , school doesn’t weight gpa…
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/393
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4) Lit (3) World (3) Lang, Physics B, Calculus AB, Comparative Gov’t
Major Awards: Masonic Outstanding Junior, three Performing Arts Letters, Key Club Awards for community service, Piano Competition Awards etc…
Extracurriculars: Key Klub (Bulletin Editor, DCon Representative) , National Honor Society (Public Relations Officer) , Jazz/Chamber/Concert Choirs (Secrretary/ Treasurer) , World Affairs Club (CoFounder/Senior Board President) , Leadership/ASB (freshman VP/ Class Rep every other year) , FCCLA , Decatur Theatre Company (Officer)
(Volunteer/Community service: Feed the needy, read to elementary kids,
Essays: getting my palm read… eh
Teacher Recommendations: one generic yet solid, and the other very thoughtful and generally amazing
Counselor Rec: thorough and generally aighhttt
Interview: 1 hr 30 min… we connected well
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: political science
State (if domestic applicant): WA
School Type: public school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
Hooks: girllll idk? i do a lot of community service. but that didn’t come through in it.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 640CR, 800M, 700W= 2140
ACT: Did not take ACT
SAT II: 790 Biology, 780 Maths II
TOEFL: (iBT) 113
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): NA
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): None
Major Awards: Maths Challenge - Gold certificate,
Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Varsity Debating, Tennis, Varsity Floorball, Percussions
Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring (peer tutor), Various School Events Organisation
Summer Activities: Summer jobs (Office work, Gardening, Roofing), Summer Program for High School Students at Columbia
Essays: Story of how I made a music video and what it helped me to understand
Teacher Recommendations: Didn’t see them. I have heard they were great.
Counselor Rec: Didn’t see it. I assume it was ok.
Interview: Overnight stay (summer)
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Neuroscience & Behavior
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Czech Republic, Europe
School Type: Boarding School
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Hooks: Debating (Good at speech), Very good evaluation from the Summer Camp</p>
<p>Congrats everyone!!</p>
<p>ACCCEPTED! Argh! I’m so excited!</p>
<p>I didn’t get in, but it was nice talking to you guys. Congratulations! :)</p>
<p>is the consensus that the ED decisions were rough this year? or generous?</p>
<p>For those deferred, is it possible to schedule an interview if we have never had one?</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 650CR, 610M, 730W - 1990
ACT: 31
SAT II: 770 US History, 750 Lit
GPA: 4.05 UW: 4.00
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/66
AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t take any.
Major Awards: youngARTS finalist, poetry; honorable mention, Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest; publishing in various magazines.
Extracurriculars: Student Government Association (President); Mississippi Girls State Senator
Volunteer/Community service: Online editing; hosting at local theatre; American Red Cross
Essays: Letter to my favorite author. Very strong.
Teacher Recommendations: I’m unsure. I think one was very good, one pretty good.
Counselor Rec: Unsure.
Interview: No interview.
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Neuroscience/Creative Writing
State (if domestic applicant): Mississippi
School Type: public residential school for the arts
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Hooks: From Mississippi. Promising writer. Leadership positions.</p>
<p>I’m actually surprised I was deferred, because of my SAT score. I retook it a few weeks ago, so I’ll update that score, and we’ll just see what happens. 
Congratulations to everyone who made it!</p>
<p>@cberkowitz, it’s not your SAT scores entirely, because I had lower scores than you all around and I got in…</p>
<p>I was surprised, but definitely ecstatic. I think it’s a major misconception that you have to have near perfect scores for them to consider you.</p>
<p>Hey for those of you accepted do you want to meet up tomorroww? We need toget details later of course but first we need to get some ppl that can come!</p>
<p>“Hey for those of you accepted do you want to meet up tomorroww? We need toget details later of course but first we need to get some ppl that can come!”</p>
<p>sorry my mom told me not to meet up with people I only met on the internet…haha</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone from the Yale SCEA-ers!! </p>
<p>and jive87;; yeah my parents would never let me get together with people that I only met on the internet lol</p>
<p>Meeting people from the internet is only dumb if YOU are dumb! So be smart. And don’t talk to weird people on the internet in the first place. No one in here is that weird in my book.</p>
<p>WOAH WHY AM I STILL HERE? I was rejected! I’m gonna be like that one girl who went to Harvard even after she was rejected!</p>
<p>Accepted? Congrats!</p>
<p>Join the [Columbia</a> U Class of 2014 Facebook Group!](<a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...)</p>
<p>for those of you that did, how did you guys get you finaid packages already? when i go onto my financial thing it just shows me my documents could it be that because my tax form says incomplete or the fact that I have not given my deposit? oh, and how many other people didn’t get a package?</p>
<p>Acceptance letters and financial aid packages were sent express mail, or at least to me. If you go to financial aid website, and sign in twice, once to get into site, and then again to get to actual personalized information, you will see tabs on top. One tab is 'award" If your documents were incomplete, they should have sent you an email or letter and you need to provide the documentation they request, before any award is determined.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>asdas209
I replied to your question, but for some reason it posted as thread #1313. Please see my reply to your answer above Thank you</p>