Checked on the website randomly and found I was on the waitlist. Good for the ego, but not sure how I would live in NY on no funding.

Email notice to check online system.

accepted MA and recommended PhD status - 10,000K in TA money offered

not exactly a surprise..

It's also an incredibly abstract process. Plenty of people applied to Columbia with very high GREs and GPAs but were still rejected. Good numbers will never guarantee admission. I imagine nobody who was accepted to Columbia (or Chicago, or Princeton, or Harvard) was confident of getting in.

It's a bummer to be rejected because whether or not we all buy the criterion, Columbia is a "top" program. The implication is that those of us who are rejected don't deserve to be "at the top." But look (and this is response to the mini-fight below): some of us react by defending our own records (which we are fully aware, in many cases, are comparable to those admitted), and some of us react (whether admitted or accepted) by attacking those who become defensive (becoming, therefore, a defense of the system, no?). To me the bottom line is that it's an incredible competitive process, it's a mix of both aptitude and crapshoot, and those who recognize it (on either side of where the chips fall) may well be the wiser and the happier. I almost regret posting this long a message for Columbia, as it adds to the mystique (sorry, Columbia peoples) of an acceptance or rejection, and as I am, personally, completely thrilled to accept the great offer I've been offered elsewhere. Frankly, I'll look forward, in the next 5 years or so, to meeting my peers-- both in the conference and placement process-- from a wide variety of programs.

Always look on the bright side of life!

An email directing to the website. i thought i could at least be referred to the master's program...sigh.

Five rejections so far. Six applications to go. I don't know why this is happening to me?? My only problem is lowish GRE scores....but everything else should meet their qualifications. If they are just rejecting me b/c of my GRE scores that's stupid. Years and years of work....and then ONE low test score and that's it??? By the way, I have two master's degrees....so that should count for something!!

Well after the acceptances last week we all sort of knew...

I waited this long for a freaking email to check my status on Apply Yourself. You'z gotz to be kiddin' me!

Fucking Columbia! You made me wait for nothing!

Nothing surprising...

0 for 4... jesus.

Surprise!!!

Checked the website

Called and asked. All acceptances and waitlists are out. As expected.

I am not sure what the post below meant. Does that mean that acceptances have gone out? Also, no one drives in Manhattan...