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Penglu said:
I guess the financial crisis screwed all of us. When I was sophomore and junior, it was at the heat of the crisis. I was not able to find any internship at all. Without any internship, it was very hard for me to land on a good full time job this year. As a result, I resorted to apply to graduate school and hoped to have a better job prospect after that. I guess a lot of students in the US, especially international students who attend colleges in the US have the similar situation, and share the same mentality.

Sadly, I haven't heard back from Columbia either. I am not sure if I could get into CMU, NYU or Cornell, given these are more competitive programs after all. But best luck to all of us!
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You can get an internship now... I don't think you have to be in college to get an internship (of course during college it's easier to get an internship).
I think Cornell is not as competitive as Columbia, its harder to get into Columbia, IMO.
 
Ycohen said:
I disagree. Let's wait until tomorrow and see what happens. We also don't know how many will accept their offer, which could open up a lot of spots for everyone else.
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But according to Andys post today was the last day they would send offers . Based on that fact I assume noones got a mail.

Anyways wish you luck...
 
jaih said:
But according to Andys post today was the last day they would send offers . Based on that fact I assume noones got a mail.

Anyways wish you luck...
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But they can't even know how many people will or won't accept the offer anyways. So how can they possibly be done? I know they base it on previous years but this year could still be at least a little bit different.
 
Ycohen said:
I disagree. Let's wait until tomorrow and see what happens. We also don't know how many will accept their offer, which could open up a lot of spots for everyone else.
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I don't think they put applicants on the waitlist. Plus, those who got in are not going to decline the offer by tomorrow...
 
roni said:
You can get an internship now... I don't think you have to be in college to get an internship (of course during college it's easier to get an internship).
I think Cornell is not as competitive as Columbia, its harder to get into Columbia, IMO.
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Em....probably because Columbia has great reputation for its Bschool? I will be very satisfied with Cornell, and prefer 1.5 year in general. But anyway, good luck tomorrow!
 
Penglu said:
Em....probably because Columbia has great reputation for its Bschool? I will be very satisfied with Cornell, and prefer 1.5 year in general. But anyway, good luck tomorrow!
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I will be satisfied with Cornell, CMU or Baruch. All of them are amazing programs and with outstanding placements.

Good luck !
 
garry said:
@roni...mate, have u interviewed with baruch ?
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I haven't submitted my application yet. Everything is ready, a few last touches and I'm submitting it.... probably by Monday.
What about you ? and as far as I know, Baruch doesn't interview all of its applicants.
 
@roni...
best of luck for ur application......
u r right, they do not interview all applicants...but luckily, i have been interviewed and waiting for the result( would be coming in this week, thas what they told me!) . Fingers crossed!
But Columbia..oh man.,...they have kept so many ppl on PENDING status...i am sure they will be bombarded with phone calls on 1st march during daytime in NY.
 
once the final mails are sent out I guess disappointment will take over. I am sure they must have anticipated such a huge no of applications. They could have offered more seats.
 
and when should we expect that MASS MAIL :( ? today?
i dont know, there is still a part of me hoping that they will extend march 1 deadline in same way as they extended feb 3rd week result deadline!!!
 
garry said:
@roni...
best of luck for ur application......
u r right, they do not interview all applicants...but luckily, i have been interviewed and waiting for the result( would be coming in this week, thas what they told me!) . Fingers crossed!
But Columbia..oh man.,...they have kept so many ppl on PENDING status...i am sure they will be bombarded with phone calls on 1st march during daytime in NY.
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Good luck !! hope you aced the interview.
And, whatever Columbia is doing is just not right. Every day they accept a few students and let the others wait. They should have used the way Princeton, MIT and CMU are using. These schools send out results on 1 day and not in an interval of 2-3 weeks.
I just don't care if I get rejected, I'm sick of looking at the word "Pending", can't handle it anymore, lol...
 
jaih said:
once the final mails are sent out I guess disappointment will take over. I am sure they must have anticipated such a huge no of applications. They could have offered more seats.
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Since there is such a big demand, they should start accepting applications for the spring semesters as well.
They will have a lot of graduates in a year, but at least all of them won't graduate at the same time.

However, programs like MIT and Princeton also have a HUGE amount of applicants, yet, the amount of accepted applicants don't grow by much (maybe they have changed it for this year).
 
garry said:
and when should we expect that MASS MAIL :( ? today?
i dont know, there is still a part of me hoping that they will extend march 1 deadline in same way as they extended feb 3rd week result deadline!!!
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Yep, they said before or on March 1st.
And, I don't think they will extend it, because Andy spoke with them and they said that yesterday was the last day they were accepting.
 
roni said:
Good luck !! hope you aced the interview.
And, whatever Columbia is doing is just not right. Every day they accept a few students and let the others wait. They should have used the way Princeton, MIT and CMU are using. These schools send out results on 1 day and not in an interval of 2-3 weeks.
I just don't care if I get rejected, I'm sick of looking at the word "Pending", can't handle it anymore, lol...
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its a result oriented world mate....only if i get an admit from baruch then i would say that i aced the interview. :D
srsly..columbia has made mess of this!
 

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