I only pay attention to the slots left for us. At least, more than 10 admissions available I guess if all applicants have actively updated their profile.
How can you imply how many slot are "left for us"?. You must have a stats background to apply to these programs. How can you say something like this?
In 2017, 76 people updated their
tracker (Assuming: a) not fake posts, b) not troll posts, c) no duplicate updates, etc, etc).
Out of those 76, there were 37 admitted... 49%.... very representative of Columbia's admission rate... right? According to the resources page 1,326 people applied to that MFE with 119 getting an admit offer. Do you actually think that a biased sample size of 76 is an accurate representation that can be used as a reliable predictor on this year's admission yield on an anonymous internet forum?
Now, I wholeheartedly believe that the vast majority of
the tracker updates are legitimate. I find little reason to believe that there's a good amount of people that will screw with that, there's no personal gain but mere puny bizarre satisfaction for a lunatic to fake on purpose. I do believe that there is a good possibility that some of the people that are pending to update
the tracker will get admitted. Lets just not focus too much on unnecessary things. I'm sure you have a chance, just chill... give it time.