Columbia Class 2009 Chinese答疑专贴

salvador

以下是引用vanessa_kg在2007-9-24 9:42:00的发言：

我想问问，一般材料出去之后，

大概需要多久才能得到回音？

这个问题我记得在网站上有说明，10－12周内会作出录取决定。不要着急，去年的申请者数量全球增加25％，adcom也很辛苦的。

parada78

我想问下第一轮就是指early decision吧？

那么第二轮可以开始递交资料的时间是什么时候啊？

jessicaf

上面那层楼问题请去网站找答案。不过必须指出，7个人里面其实4个都是finance背景（2 VC，1 bank, 1 fund), 所以金融背景还是占一定优势。

salvador

以下是引用jessicaf在2007-9-25 19:01:00的发言：
上面那层楼问题请去网站找答案。不过必须指出，7个人里面其实4个都是finance背景（2 VC，1 bank, 1 fund), 所以金融背景还是占一定优势。

补充一下，政府那位也算0.5个金融背景。供参考。

eng70778

请问哥大对本科的GPA有没有底线呢？2.6-2.7还有没有希望申请？研究生的成绩对申请有多大作用呢？

谢谢

salvador

以下是引用eng70778在2007-9-26 12:21:00的发言：

请问哥大对本科的GPA有没有底线呢？2.6-2.7还有没有希望申请？研究生的成绩对申请有多大作用呢？

谢谢

我的undergraduate gpa 2.8, master gpa 2.5。放心了吧？

eng70778

以下是引用salvador在2007-9-26 13:08:00的发言：

我的undergraduate gpa 2.8, master gpa 2.5。放心了吧？

呵呵，有些信心了，谢谢。

redwavezheng

What is the rough length for recommendation letters?

Any tips regarding recommendation letters?

smocky

以下是引用redwavezheng在2007-9-27 2:34:00的发言：

What is the rough length for recommendation letters?

Any tips regarding recommendation letters?

1. I think for Columbia specifically, the school provides a question list to the recommendor. I personally believe that it would be IDEAL if your recommendor can answer this question one by one, offering concrete examples to justify his/her evaluation on one of your strengths.

2. In case your recommendor is too busy to answer the question one by one, do not panic, a recommendation letter will do too. I guess it would be good if the length is 500 to 800 words. Of course, it is even better if your recommendor wants to write more than 800 words. Make sure that he/she doesn't ONLY write some very generic "Tommy is great great great" type of recommendation.

3. Please do not focus on length, but the CONTENT. Is it a.) insightful?  b.) specific (instead of generic?) and c.) provides concrete example(s) to justify his/her recommendation/evaluation?

Do not dwell too much on recommendation letter. Few recommendors could do the above three, which is definately very helpful. Most recommendors write "good one but not great one", which won't add too much score for you but won't hurt your candidacy either. Just make sure that your recommendor doesn't not write something bad about you - belive it or not, it HAPPENS every year.

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redwavezheng

以下是引用smocky在2007-9-28 13:22:00的发言：

1. I think for Columbia specifically, the school provides a question list to the recommendor. I personally believe that it would be IDEAL if your recommendor can answer this question one by one, offering concrete examples to justify his/her evaluation on one of your strengths.

2. In case your recommendor is too busy to answer the question one by one, do not panic, a recommendation letter will do too. I guess it would be good if the length is 500 to 800 words. Of course, it is even better if your recommendor wants to write more than 800 words. Make sure that he/she doesn't ONLY write some very generic "Tommy is great great great" type of recommendation.

3. Please do not focus on length, but the CONTENT. Is it a.) insightful?  b.) specific (instead of generic?) and c.) provides concrete example(s) to justify his/her recommendation/evaluation?

Do not dwell too much on recommendation letter. Few recommendors could do the above three, which is definately very helpful. Most recommendors write "good one but not great one", which won't add too much score for you but won't hurt your candidacy either. Just make sure that your recommendor doesn't not write something bad about you - belive it or not, it HAPPENS every year.

     Smocky:

    Thanks!

    Do you think when recruiting overseas students, B school like columbia prefer to recruit students who have VC/IB background (higher proportion), as upon graduation, these guys could be more probable to find jobs in WALL STREET or IB/VC in other countries. Then the high salary of these industries could make the statistics data look better!(say, median salary,$100000)