100 CommentsAs per tradition, Columbia’s Undergraduate Admissions team ceremoniously marched out of their Hamilton office this afternoon, singing “Roar, Lion, Roar” and carrying Early Decision admissions packages, which they sent off on the FedEx truck waiting on college walk. Congratulations, Class of 2015!
Don’t be too jealous, but this year the electronic admissions letter is a video clip of campus with the fight song playing the background, and a flash animation welcome message.
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@Amanda Idk why I never even found a link to this video…all I got was a link to a letter that I had to scan to figure out whether or not I got in…I did. :)
I really want to see it, too…
Kind of late notice here, but oh well…lol
@Lion Cub (2015) :) oh, and the video was spectacular.
@Lion Cub (2015) :) so I’m a “kid” (or a fresh-person…) next year! 2015 CC!
I have been reading Bwog NON STOP for weeks now (I’m obsessed, but you guys are amazing). If you need a 2015 person to report all the juicy gossip tidbits from the facebook group, or other baby lion shenanigans, I’m here. I’m planning on joining your staff (next year).
For the curious, the package contained a HUGE poster of Low Library, (which has found a cosy niche above my bed).
Roar, Lions, Roar!!
@Claire We can’t wait to have all you fresh things! Until then, tips are always welcome via tips@bwog.com
@Columbia Hopeful To the BWOG editors:
Thanks so much for all the news you provide about Columbia! I was deferred yesterday and was wondering whether BWOG has any information on the Class of 2015’s Early Decision Accept Rate for CC and Engineering?
Thanks!
@Anonymous Bwog*
@Anonymous Columbia has the second highest retention rate in the country (99%) just behind Yale and ahead of every other peer/elite school and one of the highest graduation rates in the country/world. Sort by retention and graduation rates in the US News’ “America’s Best Colleges.”
Very few Columbia students transfer out and very few don’t graduate compared to other peers and the national statistics. The number of transfer students enrolling each year has nothing to do with folks leaving. Columbia plans to admit transfer students each year who deserve to join our community and I believe the transfer acceptance rate is also in the single digits.
I’m sure even folks with ‘bad GPA’s’ could leave if they wanted to but nearly all Columbians recognize what an opportunity it is to be at this university.
@2015 ED Send Off?? Aren’t they too young for erectile dysfunction??
@2011 i’m getting too old for this shit.
@ed '12 i regret not giving myself more options
@Anonymous my brother got in!!! and hes so ecstatic, as am i! too bad i’ll have graduated :-(
@CC'13 my brother was deferred… he’s pretty upset.
@Anonymous that happened to me– really REALLY sucked. but i got in in the spring! if he can think of anything else the admissions office might be interested in or does anything new/cool/impressive in the next few months, he should send it in!
@um smoking pot is not ok retard.
@Columbia drug/alcohol policy have you not read the news?
@CC '15 Hey guys, I just got my email, so I thought I’d say hi :-). Can anyone tell me what the party scene is like at Columbia? Is Columbia very strict when it comes to drugs and alcohol? Thanks!
@Anonymous alcohol: depends on how lenient the RA is.
tobacco: the only acceptable place to smoke is outside.
drugs: pot is okay, but keep your windows closed. Get a fan. Also, DON’T SELL DRUGS.
for both: When you get caught, it’s handled internally. Except in really egregious cases.
tl, dr: always in moderation, don’t do anything stupid.
@you have to get caught three to four times doing drugs or alcohol before anything even remotely serious will happen to you. Punishment wise, Columbia can give a shit about drinking as long as your not obnoxious about it and dont do it in public
@Anonymous if you are really CC’15, then you will figure out soon enough. Congrats on the acceptance! Enjoy senior year.
The reason people are voting you down is because of recent news. Google: drug bust columbia.
@Anonymous Sucks for those kids…I bet they though they’d have easy access to drugs, and now their decisions are binding!
@hot desi in butler ponder the effects of cultural imperialism…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT4yik4Dn_g
@SEAS'14 yay! welcome 2015ers! you deserve to be here
@so many hot rejected chicks I could have hooked up with…. sooooo saddd….. woe is meeeee.. …
@ED 2007 We had to wait for the package back when I applied…
@ED 2012 How come we didn’t get a fancy animation?!?! I had to read through a long letter online to find out if I was accepted haha
@Anonymous columbia was a mistake
@annoyed I wonder how dumb you have to be to get rejected. Seriously, some of the people in my Lithum class really make me wonder as to the actual caliber of Columbia students…
@alum two letters: AA
@Senior Not everyone is into Lit Hum. Not everyone likes lit. You’ll soon realize that there are many remarkable people here that are much smarter and more accomplished than you are. The way students behave in your lit hum class is not a measure of their intelligence.
@Anonymous why isn’t there a “punch dbag in the face” button along with like and dislike?
@Funny cause I feel the same way you do at times, but instead of intelligence I look at personality, also known as “lack of Dbagging.”
Irony!
@Chemistry majors Are there any in the upcoming class, and can they fill the pharmaceutical hole left by this week’s events?
@hi, lame bwog commenter here hi, so i just found out my decision. rejected, of course.
i just want to say, even though a lot of you most likely won’t care, that reading bwog during the months leading up to this moment has really helped me, and even though i’ve been rejected, and won’t be able to be part of the many things that i’ve read on bwog that i wish so much i could be a part of, i feel like in a way, i was part of it anyway
call me strange, or just plain dumb, but i feel like in a way i had a tiny taste of the CU experience through bwog. and i am more grateful for that, and the small time i had on campus than anything in the world right now. it’s something i’m going to hold onto until i, perhaps, gather up the nerve and courage to apply again. who knows.
i just wish those who were accepted the best of wishes. and i hope that they make the best of their time in columbia. and i want to add, a day doesn’t go by that i don’t see some of you who go to columbia complaining. but just think about how it felt to be accepted in the first place. be grateful for what you have, because you have to know that sure as hell if i were you, i’d definitely be grateful. but, who knows, maybe you all are deep down inside.
sincerely,
me
@cheer up! don’t feel bad about not getting in here, man. i promise you, it’s no better than most other colleges
@Hooah You are wiser than most people here. And with an attitude like this, you are going to go far wherever you end up. Good luck!
@This. Whatever your GPA/SATs/ACTs, you are clearly brighter than a good handful of Columbia’s loudest students.
Bravo – and you will go far in this world with a personality like that. Trust me! No boss wants to hire an intelligent dbag he can’t work with, over a SLIGHTLY less intelligent personable individual who knows how to work with others.
Not sure how much that made sense but – cheer up! You’re gonna go places. ;)
@Anonymous this is something you don’t realize until you’ve been accepted and have settled in somewhere, but you will be completely fine!
You will have a great experience somewhere else, even if it’s not Columbia
Good luck :)
@Hey kid I’m sorry to hear about your news, but things will get better.
Best of luck to you, in all your endeavors.
Enjoy senior year!
@anon well if you’re a girl you can always apply to barnard.
@Anonymous also, look into the 3/2 program at the engineering school, if you can do maths
@me, again yes, i am a girl. and i have considered that. i still am. but, i don’t know. but thank you for the encouragement though :)
and thank you to everyone else who replied. i had to go out for a few hours, take in the ridiculously cold night air (global warming wor bist du?) and think about some things. and then i came in and read these, and i cheered up.
i can’t lie, this hurts, right in the heart. but, you guys are right, i’ll do just as well at any college i go to. i fell for columbia, like j-lo for ralph fiennes in maid in manhattan. but, what the hey, life isn’t a movie.
i’m not worried now though, hopefully, my next stop is my second choice, and after that, columbia med. i’ll be back, with a vengeance lol.
anyway, thank you all again for the encouraging comments. you’re all awesome people as well and i hope that you enjoy your holidays! :)
@Barnard student I understand why some people voted down the “apply to Barnard” comment, but honestly, it’s not a bad suggestion. I was in the same position as you a few years ago–rejected from Columbia ED (something I was truly not expecting, as I thought I was competitive at the very least). I was devastated, too. I ended up going through the whole application process, applying to a good number of schools including Barnard. Though I never thought I would end up at a women’s college (or in the Columbia community after I got rejected), I ended up getting into Barnard and coming here. And frankly, I think Barnard is a better fit for me than CC would’ve been.
Things tend work out in ways you hadn’t anticipated… don’t lose hope!
@That sucks :/ But it’s not the end of the world! Believe me, I’ve been there, and I know how it can feel like all the hard work you put in was pointless because the school you wanted most didn’t pick you. There’s no way you can have this perspective yet, but someday, I promise you won’t care anymore. It’s not just that you’ll be completely fine wherever you end up (you will be), but eventually you’ll realize that so much of the college admissions process is sheer dumb luck and is completely out of your control (which also sucks). Good luck with the rest of your applications, including Columbia Round Two, if you decide to go that route!
@hi you are awesome and your comment cheered me up, and you will probably be cheering people up at whatever school you end up going to!! good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Anonymous I got rejected early decision for the class of 2008. I went to a small liberal arts college, had fun, busted my ass a little and now I’m at Columbia for medical school. Getting rejected here for undergrad wasn’t the tragedy I thought it was at the time.
Good luck!
@Anonymous I didn’t get into my ED school, you can always transfer (I just transferred this year to Barnard)
@cc '14 i didn’t get into my ed school either, but i’m so glad i’m not there. it works out, promise.
@when i am sad i stop being sad and be awesome instead. true story.
you should, too.
naw but admissions in general is inherently random when you have 5 yous competing for one you spot.
@CC '14 Hey,
I’d like to reiterate what others have said about your wisdom and maturity in this post. And I’d like to tell you that before I got my admissions decisions back I never, ever thought I would end up at Columbia– I applied ED to a very different school which I was VERY committed to and was first deferred and then rejected, and there are still things I don’t like about CU but I honestly don’t think the other school would have been a better fit for me than Columbia. I know exactly how much you’re hurting right now, but it really is true that wherever you end up, with an attitude like yours you will have a great time. College is 100% what you make of it.
Stay strong :) you’re almost there.
@CC'14 We did
@CC'14 ugh…this was in response to that we did have the video message
@seriously clinically depressed sophomore Columbia has been a major factor in driving personal anxiety and depression. Not college, but specifically, Columbia.
@I'm Me Couldn’t agree more my friend.
@Hooah PLEASE talk to someone: http://health.columbia.edu/services/cps
@Carolyn Columbia offers some truly fantastic resources for support:
Counseling and Psychological Services: 212-854-2878
Nightline Peer Counseling: 212-854-7777
Office of the University Chaplain: 212-854-1493
Residential Programs: 212-854-6805.
things can get tough, but you don’t deserve to feel this way.
@I wish we could thumbs up bwog staff comments…
@Agreed. If you are more prone to stressing out about academics/career/life than your peers…please, for the love of x, do not come to Columbia.
@Alumna Sophomore year was the worst for me. I almost dropped out. I considered transferring. I was so depressed I barely remember a lot of it. Then junior year my friends all studied abroad and I was there and i forced myself to meet new people and found a group of people that made me so happy. I had an amazing last two years. It can get better I promise.
@alum I had the exact same experience. It really does get better!
@ED 2014 Just FYI, it sounds like the acceptance animation is the same as last year (except it says \2015\, of course).
Congrats to the Class of 2015!!
@Class of 2011 Geez, when I was in high school 2011 seemed so, so far away…. now we’re admitting the class of 2015?! are we going to have flying cars and time machines by then?
@anon haahahha i was thinking the same exact thing… so sad…
@grammar none of those are mine.* it’s shitty writing like that what got you rejected.
@Actually Jason’s grammar is right on.
@Jason you should be glad, go off to princeton or harvard or something.
@True “none” should be followed by singular third person. How the hell did they let you in here?
@Asshole “that what got you rejected.” Speak for yourself. Furthermore, there was nothing wrong with his sentence. One of those, indeed, was not his. Lay off the kid. He got rejected and he’s probably in pain.
@Brando Guys, click on “track” on the above post. :)
Sorry to burst your bubble, kid.
@Kid It’s not the end of the world seriously. College today is commercialized, you’re better off living life on a farm raising sheep. But that’s not my point, apply to other schools, see what you get, if you’re not satisfied with your choice, work very hard your freshman year and transfer if it means that much getting here. Just do not, DO NOT resort to selling drugs like the C5.
@Jason Too bad one of those isn’t mine. T_T
@spelling error it says “signing” roar lion roar, when it should be “singing”
@pretty sure the class of ’14 also had the video clip. At any rate, congrats to the ED class of 2015!
@Ed 13' so did 2013
@Anish Ai! Thanks, it’s fixed.
@yay Columbia! I wish everyone could go here, but they cant! 160,000 tuition dollars well spent! This place is exactly as advertised! the university cares so much about undergraduates! Bollinger loves each and every one of us! Finals are fun! In no way does anyone here regret not going to a “fun” school! We even have normal people, like, you know, the drug dealers! yay for 2015!
@typical bwog poster i’m trying to find a way to troll you… but your sarcasm is so true….
@freshman when does the jadedness set in again?
@Senior Umm I’d say halfwary thru sophomore year or so?
@Depressed but more upbeat Sophomore I’d say a quarter of the way through sophomore year
@Brando I’m desperately waiting to hear from Columbia’s admission office.
@That's exciting! Go relax though, don’t be one of those d-bags posting Facebooks statuses, or complaining about apps when you should be relaxing and enjoying senior year.
And DO NOT post it as your Facebook status if you get in. It’s December, and other people are stressing to hard. It’s cool to be done this early, but don’t be braggy about it. Tell your close friends, posting it on FB cannot be rationalized. It is not ok.
@Anonymous fuck what this person is saying! you won’t be friends with any of your current facebook friends in a year anyway!
@mike wymbs columbia ’15 motha fucka
@Confused Are they making you start over again?
@depressed sophomore wish I knew the shit I was getting into when I decided to come here.
@Depressed but more upbeat Sophomore aww it’s not so bad…look on the bright side. You’re not in jail.
@equally depressed sophomore if slavery exists in modern times, it’s in the form of binding early decision applications… now they’re stuck at this place.
@Admissions Office You see, if we get them in ED, they’re ours.But if we defer them and end up finding nobody better, their pride won’t let them say no.
It’s a win-win!
@Happy Senior Sophomore year sucks. It gets so much better i promise.
@thought-it-was-going-to-get-better Junior damn I’m hoping that senior year is just pure enjoyment because junior year is definitely not better than sophomore year
@alum It gets better! I promise! Sophomore & jr yr made me seriously, clinically depressed, but senior year was awesome!
@not if you’re an engineer.
@Wondering why all the people who aren’t happy here don’t just transfer… Or find some other means of channeling your stress than Bwog commentary.
@Anonymous i can’t, my gpa sucks.
@Anonymous many people do… ever wonder why we get over 120 transfer students coming in every year to fill spots?
@hhappy down south im a happy transfer to georgetown, yay! just keeping up with the cu news studying for finals. people should stop whining, do something about it if you dont like it, like i did.
@Anonymous we actually have one of the lowest transfer numbers out there. I think only Yale is lower.
@Anonymous Poor losers, theyve missed out on many things, Ahmedinijad, hunger strike, elections 2008, suicide, and most recently the drug bust.
@Alumna Every class has its dramas. There will be more.
@Anonymous *singing