Columbia University MS in Financial Economics Admission Discussion

[Qui-Gon]

Have u interviewed with them yet?

Nope, I'm in the same boat as everyone here

 

[tips]

Ahh that's a good point. The "all things remaining the same" assumption is certainly violated.

I'm still optimistic one of us will hear something this week or next week; They don't seem to do rolling interview invites like Princeton based off prior year posts, so once one of us has heard something that's probably it.

 

[tips]

Guessing no one heard anything yet today?

 

[tips]

bump

 

[lty]

Nothing yet as of now

 

[tips]

Any updates over the weekend? Guessing not

 

[Qui-Gon]

Any updates over the weekend? Guessing not

Nada

 

[tips]

Bump

 

[Zelong Qiu]

I asked the admission office on 01/25 and they said they were going to interview ~ 50 candidates in 2-3 weeks. Let's hope for some updates this week.

 

[tips]

wow, considering they accepted 50 total candidates last year I'm guessing they're either accepting much fewer students this year or they just have a very high interview -> acceptance conversion

 

[tips]

I ended up emailing them, they said that they met about candidates last week and will likely be sending interview invites this week with admission decisions coming very shortly after (i.e. beginning of march/last week of feb)

 

[Zelong Qiu]

I ended up emailing them, they said that they met about candidates last week and will likely be sending interview invites this week with admission decisions coming very shortly after (i.e. beginning of march/last week of feb)

Nice, thank you for the update . But I guess you are going to Princeton anyway if both of them admit you, aren't you?

 

[tips]

Tbh the programs are very comparable IMO in terms of what I want to get out of grad school + it helps that I have friends from undergrad / lived in nyc for two years so I'm pretty ambivalent between the two; Just want to get into one at least!

 

[Zelong Qiu]

Tbh the programs are very comparable IMO in terms of what I want to get out of grad school + it helps that I have friends from undergrad / lived in nyc for two years so I'm pretty ambivalent between the two; Just want to get into one at least!

Hah, I see. Pretty sure you should be able to get into at least 1 if not 2. Princeton isn't far away from NYC anyway. I think we are in similar situation where I want to gain potential research experience and evaluate if I want to do a PhD afterward.

 

[lty]

still no updates as of now?

 

[ridedeboat]

still no updates as of now?

Not on my end

 

[tips]

same

 

[lty]

This is more stressful than job interviews - for job interviews at least i can always hit my contacts up and ask them how everything is going.

 

[tips]

Anyone hear anything yet?

 

[Zoz]

Did they mention in their reply that they will send out an invitation this week? I remembered during the admission event. They indicated that the interview would be conducted during last week Feb or 1st week of March...So maybe they will notice some of us next week?

Anyone hear anything yet?