Columbia Class 2009 Chinese答疑专贴

redwavezheng

The recommendation letter is really a headache.

Heard that lots of questions ,like essays!

eternalwind

以下是引用redwavezheng在2007-9-28 21:26:00的发言：

The recommendation letter is really a headache.

Heard that lots of questions ,like essays!

貌似每所学校得推荐表格都不简单吧

都是一大堆问题

eternalwind

以下是引用faroceaner在2007-9-20 3:14:00的发言：
请问关于免托福是怎么个免法？需要你自己申请并说明？还是写明有美国的学位就够了？

写信去ADCOM询问一下吧

我们都没要求免TOEFL， 我有一个美国学位， 还是又考了一次

redwavezheng

以下是引用eternalwind在2007-9-30 13:46:00的发言：

貌似每所学校得推荐表格都不简单吧

都是一大堆问题

But most recommendation letters of other B-Schools are several multi-choice questions +1 recommendation essays; for columbia, the recommendation letter included almost 10 small essays(specfic recommendation questions).

I wonder most referee have patience to answer all of these carefully.

eternalwind

以下是引用redwavezheng在2007-9-30 16:13:00的发言：

But most recommendation letters of other B-Schools are several multi-choice questions +1 recommendation essays; for columbia, the recommendation letter included almost 10 small essays(specfic recommendation questions).

I wonder most referee have patience to answer all of these carefully.

记忆中Wharton和HBS都是回答问题

一个Recommendation Essay得推荐表格好像也就CHicago可以吧

御风行

09的同学们，辛苦了！：）顶一个

ElleYu

I know Columbia has only two rounds of application.  However its first round is not like other schools, say Wharton, available for ED applicants.  Therefore for another other applicants besides ED, there is only one addmission deadline, really.  My question would be are most of the students who received offer are from the ED process or the more regular admission process?  Thank you!

smocky

以下是引用redwavezheng在2007-9-28 14:57:00的发言：

     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)

It is really case-sensitive.

Let's look at the numbers first: We have around 65 students for each Cluster (there are 8 Clusters for Fall-term and 3 Clusters for J-Term). Not too many students in my Cluster are former IBankers (domestic AND int'l students incl.) and 7 worked for investment banks prior to Columbia. So you can do the math: 7/63 = 11%. Out of these 7, three worked in overseas IBs.  * But there are more students who worked in the financial service industry prior to school. For VC background, there are two in my Cluster.

Therefore, I wouldn't say that Columbia "prefers" to recruit students who have VC/IB backgrounds - pls. refer to the above.

Matter-of-factly though, Columbia is doing great sending its students to IBs. Columbia, Wharton and HBS are the three biggest "feeder" for Goldman Sachs and Columbia leads the other two slightly in terms of # of graduates landing a full-time offer with Golman.

Again, I wouldn't over-think "what background the school prefer", since it is TOO LATE for you to change your background right? And, given the number above, I guess you shouldn't worry about it too much anyway.

eternalwind

以下是引用ElleYu在2007-10-3 2:38:00的发言：
I know Columbia has only two rounds of application.  However its first round is not like other schools, say Wharton, available for ED applicants.  Therefore for another other applicants besides ED, there is only one addmission deadline, really.  My question would be are most of the students who received offer are from the ED process or the more regular admission process?  Thank you!

今年七个录取的Mainland applicants, 来自ED的四个, Regular Round的三个, 仅供参考

minbighead

问一个很愚蠢的问题：

我在哥大的网站上为什么找不到EARLY DECISION 的链接呢？ 我跟ADMISSION 联系了，他们把我REGULAR DECISION 的 log in inactive后，我还是只能进入REGULAR DECISION 。

很着急！多谢！