eeemmm1212
i applied ED on 9/26 as well, and still haven't heard anything. i'm applying for a dual degree, and am already in my first year at another columbia school. all i can say is that this forum is making me quite anxious!
I don't understand Columbia's rolling admissions system now. I thought it meant that everyone who applied earlier would be given some sort of feedback (interview/ding) before those who applied later are considered. But clearly that is not what Columbia is doing. There are folks who applied on Oct 3 and have got interview invites, and there are others who applied in the last week of Sep and are still waiting to hear. If someone applies earlier, and AdCom sits on their application in order to see how the rest of the applicants are, before they take a decision on the earlier applicant, I think it totally beats the purpose of ED. They could just call it a R1 and ask everybody to submit by a certain date and start evaluating applicants after everbody's got their file in.
Rolling admissions means they look (open) applications the order in which they recieved. The fact that there isn't ding means, that they liked the application somewhat and are holding on to the application so that they can look at more applications to get some idea of their pool.