What a likely letter means to students at the same school

trf1021
Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:31:15 +0000

I’m wondering what everyone thinks about this. Columbia has not accepted a student from my school in the past few years. I recently found out that someone from my school received a likely letter. His stats are definitely better than mine, but we are not that different. So what I’m taking from this is that after turning down many incredible applicants from my school in the past couple years, Columbia now considers one of our students to be one its best accepted students. Does this mean anything to the 4 other students from my school (including me) who applied? I get the feeling that Columbia may be viewing our school differently this year. And how would they view us, knowing that one the students they want the most comes from the same school?

Another random piece of information- last year, after a few years of 0 acceptances, 4 students out of the 7 who applied to Cornell were accepted. I don’t know why this happened, but I almost feel like something similar could happen with Columbia this year. Does this make any sense or am I overanalyzing?