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eekkkk people who submitted 1/5 and under review 1/21 are getting notified i haven't heard anything and those are my dates. wont be long i hope! looks like it could be alot more than 10 days they didn't notify everyone who submitted then today.

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crackalack

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28 Feb 2011, 14:44

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@vinaynp - thanks for sharing and best of luck

cunit2k5

The only movement recently has been dings. Anyone get an invite?!?

It really is nuts, isn't it? For those of us that applied in the week before the Fellowship deadline, this past month has been an absolute bloodbath. Had I known in advance, I still wouldn't have applied ED but come on... Can you really call it "Regular Decision" if it accounts for less than half of admits?

1/4 Submit
1/21 Under Review
2/28 Under Duress

vinaynp

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28 Feb 2011, 14:46

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I still don't understand why so many dings all of a sudden! I hope there are some calls for interview too

Me too

I think there is something fundamentally wrong with my application. I now have reject from Wharton, Kellogg, Booth, and Columbia. I am now waiting to hear from NYU (my last school).

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28 Feb 2011, 14:57

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I still don't understand why so many dings all of a sudden! I hope there are some calls for interview too

Me too

I think there is something fundamentally wrong with my application. I now have reject from Wharton, Kellogg, Booth, and Columbia. I am now waiting to hear from NYU (my last school).

I truly believe in the power of the written word, aka your essays. My stats are totally average but I spent months and months on those essays and I know that is what made me stand out. Getting down "your story" as you have heard a million times is absolutely critical and perhaps the single most effective way of drastically improving your application.

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28 Feb 2011, 15:00

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Got a ding today without an interview. I got an email with the status update and no phone call.
Applied: 1/5
Under review: 1/21
Rejected: 2/28

I think I wasn't admitted because of my nontraditional background and may be my age too. I am a scientist (PhD in microbiology from a top school in the US)
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Good luck to everybody!

TM212

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28 Feb 2011, 15:18

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how would columbia notify one for an interview? Via phone call? e-mail? app status change? I just want to know what to look for...

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28 Feb 2011, 15:20

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TM212

how would columbia notify one for an interview? Via phone call? e-mail? app status change? I just want to know what to look for...

e-mail about a change in your app status, you go the application page and it says you are invited to interview.

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28 Feb 2011, 15:27

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did they already filled in or what.. for the last few weeks there have been only dings w/o interviews..
under review on 21sts started received dings so I guess i will have to wait 10 days to get mine.. (went under review on the 31st)..

I am going to send an ED next year on the 1st of August and will have my acceptance by october=)

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28 Feb 2011, 15:58

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Also if you're too scared to login and see your status change (like I was), Columbia sends another email within 24 hrs that specifically invites you for the interview and gives you the website for scheduling. Good luck to those waiting! I'm at the agonizing period between the interview and my status change to interview complete.. I probably will wish I was back here when I get my ding in a few weeks, but RD has definitely been rough on many.

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28 Feb 2011, 16:20

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eekkkk people who submitted 1/5 and under review 1/21 are getting notified i haven't heard anything and those are my dates. wont be long i hope!

ua87

looks like it could be alot more than 10 days they didn't notify everyone who submitted then today.

saritalr

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Updated on: 28 Feb 2011, 17:42

Originally posted by saritalr on 28 Feb 2011, 17:31.
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I just got an email from Columbia (SIPA) with the subject: "Admissions Committee Review Update".

That definitely took several weeks off of my life.

whew - I think I might be a little on edge.

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28 Feb 2011, 17:39

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Just got the ding. Wow it really hurts.......

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28 Feb 2011, 17:41

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you just got it now? this late? sorry to hear good luck on everything else, mind sharing when u went under review?

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28 Feb 2011, 17:42

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kraynro

eekkkk people who submitted 1/5 and under review 1/21 are getting notified i haven't heard anything and those are my dates. wont be long i hope!

ua87

looks like it could be alot more than 10 days they didn't notify everyone who submitted then today.

I'm in the same boat...went under review on 1/21 and trying to be as patient as possible with the process. One would think that they may have figured out whether they want to interview an applicant after "reviewing" his/her application for 5 weeks.

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28 Feb 2011, 17:43

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yea i hear ya, better than a ding i guess

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28 Feb 2011, 18:20

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anyone interview in January and still waiting for a decision? My app went complete on 1/24. The wait has been brutal.

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28 Feb 2011, 19:48

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runnergirl

anyone interview in January and still waiting for a decision? My app went complete on 1/24. The wait has been brutal.

I interviewed Jan 31 and went interview complete Feb 1. It has been a long wait, I wonder what they are waiting for to give us our decisions....

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Originally posted by crackalack on 28 Feb 2011, 20:52.
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Morningside Heights.

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28 Feb 2011, 21:35

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Got my ding today around 4.30 pm. That makes it 0 out of 6 for this application season. 2 major admission consulting companies (rated the top 2 on admissions411) did not think I have anything fundamentally wrong with my applications that I did not even receive 1 interview. Well...such is destiny. Time to pull up the socks and re-apply.

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28 Feb 2011, 21:42

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crackalack

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Is it true that more than of the admits come from ED? I realize that CBS uses ED to get their yield up and improve their ranking, but wow... I chose not to apply ED to CBS because I like to have flexibility in my decision making. Like, maybe I'll get money at another school and that would influence my decision.

No, I have no idea if it's true. I was just exaggerating for effect, but...It worked! Got my first Kudo! Let's try it some more!
Warning: Everything in this post is speculative, self-entitled and probably flat wrong.

I have been scouring these boards for CBS clues over the last few months, and I don't think I've seen any figures on the actual ED-RD % breakdown. On the BW blog I once saw an admissions rep say that "the numbers aren't published, but you have the same overall chance of admission in either round." As my grandmother used to say, "The numbers aren't published, but that's probably a load of malarkey." I applied early January RD for precisely the same reasons as wschaeff and a lot of others. I incorrectly assumed there was a discrete amount of spots allocated to RD and ED applicants (like college applications, and 90% of B School admission rounds).

But as it turns out, Columbia seems to have 3 rounds, each of which is fluid. Check it - Round 1: ED, Round 2: RD (September - December), Round 3: RD (December - April). I thought I was applying in something like a Round 2, because I got it into my head that any RD app submitted before the fellowship deadline had the same odds. Better research (or an admissions consultant) would have told me that significantly better RD odds are in the window right after ED. Now the ding-parade has really started cruising since that handful of early January applicants got invites (nearly all on Feb 16, see page 171). I made flawed assumptions, and that's my fault. I surely can't call Columbia disingenuous, even if they are trying to jack up their yield. But if not misleading, the CBS admissions process suffers from a gross lack of clarity and transparency.

It is one of the best business schools in the world. I would do just about anything to get a Columbia MBA. Period. But this here forum has at least 50(!) MORE PAGES than Stanford, HBS, Booth, McCombs, Haas, Wharton, Tuck or any other forum. That's 1,000 more rants, questions, unanswered prayers and pleas than any comparable B-School! What could possibly account for such a difference? The fact that we can't go to the source to get even a modicum of insight into this long, expensive and highly stressful process! Every one of these places is a black box, but CBS goes above and beyond to torture its applicants with uncertainty. Maybe if we were given a bit more information, both prospectively and after submission, I wouldn't spend 20 minutes crafting an uninformed internet diatribe against an institution I want so badly to be a part of.

I'm blowing in the wind here, guys. I just need some clarity.

Oh, and if I get an interview invite tomorrow, I will burn this post to the ground faster than you can say Morningside Heights.

I attended a CBS admissions event in October. The presenter (I believe he was the dean of admissions) said that there's no difference between an ED applicant's chances of acceptance and a RD applicant's, as long as the RD applicant submits his/her app before Dec 15.

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01 Mar 2011, 06:34

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Oh my god...like many others here on GC I treated the 5th of January as some sort of r2 deadline...that was probably lethal to all of us who got dinged within the last two weeks. Drives me nuts, especially regarding the fact that I only waited until Jan 5th to avoid getting a sudden idea for my essays and having already submitted my application. I just wonder why CBS does not make the process more transparent.