In light of the upcoming elections, Bwog is bucking CCSC procedure and endorsing one party and one party only for CCSC 2016…our own! Meet Morningside Madness: Gangnam Style.

Hey class of 2016!

From our first Lit Hum class to deciding to skip out on an EC party to play Monopoly, freshman year has already been one crazy ride. MM:GS wants to make sure we stay on the right track and keep moving, like a train. Get to know our campaign and what we’re all about, and hey, you might even join in on the madness…Gangnam Style…like the song!

Best,

Your council

President

Name: Carly Stevens

Hometown: New Jersey

Fast Facts: Sus Del Maj, Pinkberry Princess, looooooves True Blood and being personable

Favorite Columbia Spot: Kickin’ in at Joe’s

See the rest of our ticket

According to tipsters, AJ, one-seventh of the Korean boy band U-KISS, will be officially joining the Columbia student body this fall.  In fact, he “safely arrived at the Columbia University a few days ago” “and was busy to finish some works prior to the beginning of the semester!”

We’re not sure which one is AJ (here’s a non-airbrushed Twitter pic), but enjoy the video.

Anonymous email sent in last night which recounts a critical moment in the Columbian life-cycle:

At approximately 5pm EST, a shot was fired.

“Housing?!” posted one eager student in the Columbia – Class of 2016 Facebook grouper, sending over 1,000 students into a rush to get to LionMail first. No doubt, this would create traffic; a traffic that caused the servers to crash. Those who made it through the cracks of the virtual wreck posted statuses in the good – giving rise to jealousy from other students.

Overenthusiastic freshmen began chanting the legendary “Carman Forever” song.

Others, confused and clearly oblivious to the power of synced Lionmail, posted statuses wondering how they, too, check their housing assignment.

For a moment or few, it was quiet. Peaceful, almost. First-years were delightful exchanging building names and room numbers in one (long) polite post. Surely, friend requests were being sent and approved. For seven minutes, all was quiet on the home front. It was cute.

Until the Housing Portal magically opened up. Then, it was a bloody clusterfuck.

Students pledged their pride to certain buildings – posting room assignments not once, not twice, but up to three times up and down the Facebook page in different posts.

If that wasn’t enough, they started forming groups within the Facebook school group.

At least 13 were made in allegiance to a particular floor or suite, including one designed for potential freshpeople who are already dissatisfied and want their housing payments refunded.

And, in some quintessential-Columbian way, documents were being posted for better organization. Five listings popped up within the last hour of the Housing Craze of Freshpeople 2012, each one dedicated to a respective building and every one classifying the names of residents by floor and room.

About four hours after the initial shock, the flames died down and students crawled to the listings and groups for comfort. Others who missed everything excitedly posted statuses, obviously overlooking the damage before them.

In all, does it really matter where you end up? Don’t you learn to love all of your floor/suite/room-mates anyway?

Haha, yeah right.

And then there was this…

History repeats itself, 2016. Prefrosh Facebook one another. Sometimes, they plan parties. This year, they’ve been inspired by Mean Girls, the 2004 teen comedy starring cute Lindsay Lohan.

Props for partying in honor of a movie you were ten years old for, 2016.

Those are pretty good quotes, to be fair, and these prefrosh clearly love the idea of Columbia. If only we could buy some of their enthusiasm on the street and then smoke it behind IAB.

;)

One more screenshot after the jump. Teaser quotes: “Oh goodie.. Condoms are on me! <—-that was a joke….unless….lol jk” and “wait..you’re not going to Columbia?”

ONE MORE SHOT. ONE MORE SHOT.

Welcome, 2016!

Greetings, prospective Columbians! Bwog hopes that you’re ready to enjoy an amuse-bouche of college life this weekend. And by a stroke of good fortune, you’ll be experiencing completely typical weather conditions, quality of life, and level of general satisfaction! Right, everyone? Right.

On Thursday, we reposted our beloved and authoritative guide, “How to Scar Your Prospie.” But why should current students have all the fun? Without further ado:

How to Scar Your Host or Making the Most of Days on Campus

For your amusement, tell your host:

• You’re going to the bathroom and then never come back.
• You’re sexiling them.
• You forgot to get off the 1 train and are at the end of the line. What’s Van Cortlandt Park?
• You were stopped by public safety and gave their UNI.
• You’re in Times Square. Everything is bright and loud and you may be having a panic attack.

So much more after the jump.

Destiny awaits!

The admissions staff is shipping the acceptance letters out to the Class of 2016 high school seniors.  As per tradition, they are out on college walk marching boxes of letters into the shipping trucks.  Admissions will be posted online tonight at 5 pm.  Freak out, high schoolers!

As always, it was one of the largest and most accomplished applicant pool.  The admission rate is up by .5 from last year’s 6.9 percent.  Jessica Marinaccio, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, gave the following statement about this year’s admissions:

Total number of applicants: 31,851

Total number of students admitted:  2,363

Admit Rate: 7.4%

Read Dean Marinaccio’s statement and more photos after the jump.

Dean Fondiller, pretty in pink

Remember the neurotic high school senior that you once were and still sort of are? Use that person to generate some empathy, as Barnard is mailing its decision letters today. In an e-mail to Bwog, admissions dean and shatterer of dreams Jennifer Fondiller shared some of the exciting stats. The acceptance rate for the class of 2016 is, at 21% overall, the lowest in the college’s history and a full 3% percentage points lower than last year. Numbers of applications for both early (561) and regular decision programs climbed to 5,440 combined (17.8% higher than just two years ago), maintaining Barnard’s standing as the most selective women’s college in the country. Good luck to all, congratulations to some!

Photo credit to Barnard College/Adrienne Hezghia, BC’12

Last semester, after Early Decision results went out, we checked in on the Class of 2016′s Facebook page. We expected to be, uh, entertained; we were not disappointed. So last week, when Regular Decision stats were announced, we thought maybe that the 2016 Facebook’s page had had time to ferment. Again, we expected something to chuckle at. Indeed, we must hand it to you, 2016. You not only outdid our expectations, you outdid yourselves.

Today, compounding the stress of nervous high school seniors across the hemispheres, our Office of Undergraduate Admissions released preliminary numbers for the regular decision pool. The stats showed an overall drop in applications from last year, which they attributed both to a normalizing effect from Columbia’s switch to the Common App in 2010, and also to the recently reintroduced early action plans at Harvard and Princeton. Despite the less impressive numbers, the applicant pool was described, as it is every year, as the most academically competitive yet. Hooray! The potential class of 2016 also demonstrated itself to be exceedingly sensitive and loveable by excelling in categories like “diversity of experience” and “voice.” The breakdown is as follows:

• 31,818 applications for a class of 1,391 students
• Anticipated to be one of the larger applicant pools in the Ivy League
• Applications were down 8.9% from last years numbers, but,
• There has been a 21.5% overall increase in applications since 2010

Full email after the jump

The early entrants to Columbia’s CC and SEAS class of 2016 have been announced. As some of you may remember from way back when (high school), getting into college is kind of a big deal. Maybe your parents took you out to a nice restaurant that night, or maybe you jumped around uncontrollably screaming incomprehensible words of joy. Thankfully, in this modern age of instant communication and digital socialization, all of the awkward intensity is on public display through Facebook and College Confidential. The best, most insane, creepiest, most offensive, and, perhaps, cutest posts will be collected and periodically posted for our enjoyment during these, the darkest of times.

"I'm holding your future."

This afternoon the Columbia Undergraduate Admissions performed their ritual early decision annoucement send off. Belting “Roar, Lion, Roar”, the crew carried the decisions from Hamilton to the awaiting FedEx truck on College Walk. Now we have only to wait until some intrepid pre-frosh founds the Columbia Class of 2016 facebook group and a new generation of heros are born. Congratulations future Columbians!

Some stats about this year’s Early Decision acceptances:

• Columbia received 3,088 ED applications, 5.86% less than last year.
• Jessica Marinaccio, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, writes in an email that this is “likely attributable to changes in some of our peer schools’ early policies.”
• However, “the ED pool increased in terms of academic quality indicators, making this the most competitive selection process in our history.”
• Columbia has historically filled 44% of the incoming class with Early Decision applicants, and this percentage did not change this year.
• Accepted early applicants hail from 40 states plus DC and 32 countries outside of the US.

Statement from Jessica Marinaccio after the jump