<p>In the thread regarding Likely letters, someone made reference to the fact that Columbia does not start reviewing deferred applicants again until the middle of March? Does anyone else know when/how the deferred people are brought back in the process? If they don’t re-look until the middle of March, wouldn’t most of the slots already be filled – and – this would only allow admissions around 1 week or so to review all those applications again?</p>
<p>^lets see: there are 12 weeks to review apps, differed candidates account for about 1200 applications whom they have already evaluated once, in an applicant pool of 17000 one should get about 1/15 of the time, given that a second round a week is pretty long.</p>
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<p>Your question assumes that Columbia fills its class on a first-come first-served basis. This is incorrect. Columbia doesn’t just pick the first 1500 people it likes and then stop reviewing apps.</p>