columbia regular- anything yet?

hellokitty22

thanks for sharing.

do you think your interview was blind?

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ctian

hellokitty22:

She told me it was blind. She did not read my application before. Only resume.

Yes, I used a lot examples, every general sentence I used one or two examples.  And also some examples from essays for other schools too. For example, Ethic, Columbia essay doe snot have this one, I prepared for it before interview. The more examples you prepare the better.

I think you have to prepare for like chat, rewrote your essay into conversation without looking at your original ones, and prepare they ask more in-detail, in-depth questions. The interviewer for me did not go too much in-depth though, but I can image if it were alumi, it could be much more in-depth.   and depending on interviewer and yourself, you could use some humors, I did, since it was quite fun to talk some issues we all familar with.  But it really is relaxing and fun conversatiion.  So interview was not bad at all to me. I think I did my best.

I am not sure how many applicants though, but there are about 10 rooms, so 10 interviewers doing interviews at same time,

so 10*4 time slots, probably 40 this Super saturday, not sure if there are more time slots beside they sent me (they sent 4 to choose).

But they have sign-in list, only one page, looks like not many though.

Cat

hellokitty22

以下是引用ctian在2008-1-28 10:08:00的发言：

hellokitty22:

She told me it was blind. She did not read my application before. Only resume.

Yes, I used a lot examples, every general sentence I used one or two examples.  And also some examples from essays for other schools too. For example, Ethic, Columbia essay doe snot have this one, I prepared for it before interview. The more examples you prepare the better.

I think you have to prepare for like chat, rewrote your essay into conversation without looking at your original ones, and prepare they ask more in-detail, in-depth questions. The interviewer for me did not go too much in-depth though, but I can image if it were alumi, it could be much more in-depth.   and depending on interviewer and yourself, you could use some humors, I did, since it was quite fun to talk some issues we all familar with.  But it really is relaxing and fun conversatiion.  So interview was not bad at all to me. I think I did my best.

I am not sure how many applicants though, but there are about 10 rooms, so 10 interviewers doing interviews at same time,

so 10*4 time slots, probably 40 this Super saturday, not sure if there are more time slots beside they sent me (they sent 4 to choose).

But they have sign-in list, only one page, looks like not many though.

Cat

thanks a lot!

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ctian

Hi, everyone, my status is really weird now, I checked it, it said, I was invited to super saturday 2/9/2008, I just finished one.  Guess it is just some mistake, do not mind taking another one, just why.  I think I have to call the office to find out, but sent e-mail to Nancy anyway.

Cat.

hellokitty22

Cat, relax! it gotta be a mistake...that is no big deal...dont stress!

Juliandworld

诚心请教，现在submit application还来得及吗？大概春节前能够ready...拖了这么久，汗一个先。。

schlafen

yes, Columbia is famous by its rolling process;
you can submitt the application anytime during the process.

And
on the BW forum the ADCOM member suggests that students can explain the
reason why Columbia is their first priority but they apply for it so
late in the optional essay.

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Juliandworld

呵呵，明白啦，谢谢37楼的mm！

ctian

hi, hellokitty22:

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it seems that ethical question is very standard for columbia... on the BW, some other girl is also asked this question, and she said she struggled. What exactly was the question asked to you? Describe an ethical dilemma??

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Regarding Ethical question, she just asked decribed a situation about Ethical Dilemma, from your experience, anything, if you worked in China, London, or US, anything at all?

I do not think it is tricky question at all.  Not sure what the correct answer, maybe none, just described an example in your experience, should be OK, I guess. 

I saw she has a list of questions, did not look closely, did not see what they are, but she read some questions from there, I guess they are general questions.  No big deal.

Hope it helps.

Cat

ctian

hellokitty22:

you are right, it was mistake on my status. Someone e-mailed me back.  No worries now. Good luck to your interview.  Crack it.