<p>thank you!!!</p>
<p>yeah my girlfriend will find out about Columbia in t-minus… negative 5 minutes.</p>
<p>So I was stalking the Columbia ED thread, and is anybody else freaked out by how many top top applicants were rejected? Makes me nervous about Yale . . .</p>
<p>My girlfriend got rejected too… she’s 3rd in our class, 35 ACT, 800 and 790 on subject tests, came from a tough family situation, and wrote a ridiculously amazing essay. I am terrified.</p>
<p>The Columbia results thread is depressing. I need to start setting myself up for deferral/rejection. Too bad my semester grades are already finalized…</p>
<p>GUYS, I am so nervous after today’s round of acceptances/deferrals/rejections from columbia and cornell. OMG YALLEEEE</p>
<p>Bloodbath for Columbia EDers. Hopefully more of the accepted ones will post soon.</p>
<p>Just looked at Columbia…yikes that was a massacre. But I’m guessing that for many of the people who got accepted, CC is the farthest thing from their minds right now</p>
<p>Wow, I regret even opening that thread, as it is making me feel a bit insecure right now…I guess the accepted kids haven’t posted yet, but I don’t recall seeing threads from other years of decisions being that skewed to rejection, at least at the beginning of the threads for sure. But holy bejeebers, I don’t even think I saw more than 1 kid with a high SAT/stats get accepted PERIOD, out of the people that posted stats…</p>
<p>0_o Columbia kids got SLAUGHTERED. </p>
<p>Well, that put me in my place. Rejection is coming. Must go work on physics.</p>
<p>I hadn’t come on here until pretty much right now so I had only heard of my two friends, one who applied to cornell, one to columbia, who both got in. I was pretty shocked when I saw the columbia thread, too. Neither of my friends were outstandlingly amazing, and I was actually really surprised (and of course excited!) for one of them, but they were really good applicants of course. Admission is so unpredictable. I hope this is a sign that colleges like my school this year. We usually don’t do very well AT ALL. Hearing their decisions and celebrating with them is definitely making me even more anxious. 6 MORE DAYS!!!</p>
<p>well after cruising the Columbia threads… my observation is that SAT scores are not as vital as CC often portrays them as. Many kids with 2300’s were rejected and many 2000-2200 were accepted. It is about a lot more than sitting for one test, and I think that makes me feel a little more hopeful in a way. They are trying to take a more holistic approach based less on an imperfect test. Yes it seems racially biased as well, but I don’t think it’s time to lose hope… Rather just makes deferral seem much more like a blessing.</p>
<p>My best friend got deferred Columbia ED. =/</p>
<p>Hopefully Yale is nicer!
Who am I kidding, Yale IS nicer than Columbia!</p>
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<p>Truer words have never been spoken.</p>
<p>What are everyone’s thoughts on the deferred v. rejected debate?
I can’t tell if it is better to have another shot but be stuck waiting, or to have the peace of mind that comes with a final answer.</p>
<p>Here’s my thought:
SCEA acceptance last year was 13-14%. About 50% were deferred. So about 36-37% were rejected.
Rejection = bottom 36-37%. Even though different schools go through admission processes differently, I have the mindset that if I’m outright rejected, I’ll have little to no chance at any of the other top tier schools.
My conclusion probably has no merit, but that’s what my mind is going through at the moment haha. Depressing, eh?</p>
<p>^As brutal as a deferral might be, I think your conclusion is accurate. Even if a rejection SCEA doesn’t rule out your chances at other top schools, it will certainly sting and make you wonder…</p>
<p>^^I agree. While a few might be rejected on “fit”, the vast majority of those rejected are the applicants that the adcoms decide would certainly be rejected in the regular round. Especially for Yale, since they defer so many</p>
<p>Deferral is much better than rejection… rejection would indicate you application was not even competitive, and that you wasted your time/money/worry.</p>