Notes

QB and Columbia Admissions Chat

General Info
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Admissions process
- Holistic Admissions, Academic Preparation, life experience, intellectual exploration, community engagement
- Try to learn about the applicant, so teach them
- They have school transcript, QB application, and recommendation letters, if you submitted your own transcrip you might need an official one, you can send extra recommendation(i think YES)
- can add extra testing before november 6, directly through status page

Columbia Supplements
- what are you passionate about and how you choose to learn about those things, don't need to fill everything, but think exhaustively
- specific articles
- think how you engage with what you are interested in,
- be specific to columbia and be personal, don't list stuff about columbia through google
- optional pieces:
- status page:
- more than 100 QB students in the 3 ways to get in
- 1/5 is low income community - FLY students
- early decision option after the match, can be considered, offering option to move into early decision, one day to move into early decision
- automatically moved into regular decision, only move through with Questbridge application, don't need to apply through common app or coalition
- if you want to add additional information like resume you can
- need official transcript, ask counselor to send to email
- author can, don't need to, don't qualify your answers, what you pursue
- 40 to mid 50s(people admitted through national match, national college match
- okay for regular admission
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- be interesting, captivate them

Financial Aid Information
- As soon as you can up till middle of november, they will reach out if missing
- complete package from what QB said, college match scholarship package
- they will still look at stuff submitted on november 2nd
- they will reach out if they need anything, sooner welcome
- own room on campus

Questions I might have
- what advantage does a student have studying CS at Columbia than at any other institution?
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