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kh

Joined: 29 Feb 2008
Posts: 24
no news from columbia
Thu Mar 27, 2008 01:16 AM
i still havent heard anything. not sure what to make of it.
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kh

Joined: 29 Feb 2008
Posts: 24
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:27 AM
does anyone know how columbia informs ppl of rejections? if it informs by air mail (unless you specifically email them and ask), then could it be that if one has not heard till now it means that one is rejected - cause air mail will take a while to arrive?
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tomekfrompoland

Joined: 28 Feb 2008
Posts: 14
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 03:33 PM
I asked a friend of mine, who is a current LL.M. student at CLS to find out something about how advanced the admissions process currently is - the unofficial and probably not very accurate information from a few days ago was that about 60% of the class has already been chosen... Judging from the previous years' posts on this board, last admissions decisions were communicated in the beginning of May. Oh the never ending wait... ;-)
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llmer

Joined: 25 Jan 2008
Posts: 14
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Thu Mar 27, 2008 08:10 PM

I received the following email...

Dear :
Thank you for your patience in this process. No decision has been made on
your file. We will notify you by email as soon as we have a decision.

Office of Graduate Legal Studies
Columbia Law School
435 West 116th Street, MC 4036
New York, NY 10027
gls@law.columbia.edu
Tel.: (212) 854-2655
Fax: (212)854-9742
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tomekfrompoland

Joined: 28 Feb 2008
Posts: 14
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 04:07 PM
Yippeee! I just got the admission email from CLS. What a good reason to party this weekend ;-)

Good luck to all those still waiting - as you can see, good news may come, sometimes late but nonetheless :)
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wildreamer

Joined: 08 Jul 2007
Posts: 15
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 04:17 PM
congratulations Tomek! U lucky CLS bxx! Enjoy ur weekend! ;-)
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pipo

Joined: 24 Mar 2008
Posts: 13
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Fri Mar 28, 2008 08:00 PM
Congratulations!!!

I still havenīt received any news whatsoever since my referral to the regular cycle on December. (I applied on the early admission period).

Does anybody have any news on current admissions?
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soumagi

Joined: 30 Mar 2008
Posts: 11
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Mon Mar 31, 2008 03:26 PM
me too. still havent received anything. i ve been told however that i ll receive a notification within the week.
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fenua24

Joined: 19 Jun 2007
Posts: 33
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Mon Mar 31, 2008 03:28 PM
Did you send an email and that is what they answered?
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soumagi

Joined: 30 Mar 2008
Posts: 11
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Mon Mar 31, 2008 03:37 PM
the told me that they will start sending notifications in the week. we ll see
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Lemonde1978

Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Posts: 20
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Tue Apr 01, 2008 07:10 AM
Got rejected, I received the email last night :-(
I am so disappointed! And now what? The other Law School I was admitted to are not even comparable to CLS especially in my field of interest (i.e., arbitration).

What will be my chances if I apply again next year?

[Edited 01 Apr 2008 by Lemonde1978]
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soumagi

Joined: 30 Mar 2008
Posts: 11
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Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:22 AM
where else have u been admitted?
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miyu55

Joined: 28 Jan 2008
Posts: 7
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Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:01 PM
Last night I received an e-mail from cls admissions office. As my school does not provide an official one, I had sent a note from the school stating that they do not have an official ranking they could provide. In last night's e-mail, CLS is asking from me to submit them an unofficial ranking information about my graduation grades. I'm not sure if this is just a formality or has the decision process come and stuck to this single piece of information. I guess still not receiving a rejection is positive. Does any of you have any opinion as to how I should interpret all this?

[Edited 02 Apr 2008 by miyu55]
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Akina

Joined: 02 Dec 2007
Posts: 5
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 01:31 PM
Yippeee! I just got the admission email from CLS. What a good reason to party this weekend ;-)

Good luck to all those still waiting - as you can see, good news may come, sometimes late but nonetheless :)


Congratulations and thanks for letting us know. I was starting to wonder if there was still a realistic possibility of admission for those of us who had not yet heard from Columbia.
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tchoummi

Joined: 10 Oct 2007
Posts: 18
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 08:54 PM
I've just sent a e-mail and here is the answer :

"We make our admissions decisions through the end of April, and you will be notified via email as soon as a decision has been made on your application.
If, however, you fax or email your letter of admission to the other university, including the deadline, we can try to expedite your decision"

That's definitely too long, and I won't wait untill end of april!!!
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soumagi

Joined: 30 Mar 2008
Posts: 11
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Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:30 PM
I have just been placed on a waitlist. anyone else?
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Cookal

Joined: 12 Mar 2008
Posts: 7
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 01:42 AM
Hi,

got accepted on April st. My deadlines were close so I wrote them an e-mail asking them to take a decision (politely but still). I received an e-mail two hours later informing me that I was accepted.

There is still hope. Good luck to all of you
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louise21

Joined: 22 Feb 2008
Posts: 4
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 09:52 AM
hello, I am also stil waiting for news from Columbia. I have deadlines for Georgetown and Chicago so I was also wondering if I should send an email. But I am worried that they will be annoyed by such an email and that they may reject me instead of still keeping me waiting... What do you think?
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Cookal

Joined: 12 Mar 2008
Posts: 7
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:39 AM
Maybe you should write an e-mail. I really do not hink that they would reject you on the sole ground that you wrote an e-mail requesting that a decision be taken. It would be uncalled for and a shame for such a university.

Here is my advice: write an e-mail, tell them that you have deadlines real close and that you need to know when their decision, whether positive or negative, will be available. Just say you can't wait much longer. They'll understand that they need to take a decision without even having to explicitely ask them.

Good luck to you
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soumagi

Joined: 30 Mar 2008
Posts: 11
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 06:45 PM
I am in the exactly same situation.. I also have deadlines for Georgetown and Chicago and I wrote them an email telling them that I would appreciate a decision as soon as possible.

And the placed me on a waitlist... even worse
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Kimi1981

Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Posts: 3
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Sun Apr 06, 2008 01:59 PM
I was on the waitlist and Friday I got an email informing that I was rejected...
Good luck to everybody!
Kimi
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Law2008

Joined: 06 Apr 2008
Posts: 7
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Mon Apr 07, 2008 01:51 PM
Dear Colleagues

Any news from CLS? Anyone rejected/accepted? Does CLS send its admission decisions at this moment?

If got it right, we need to wait till the end of April.
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pipo

Joined: 24 Mar 2008
Posts: 13
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Mon Apr 07, 2008 07:47 PM
I still havenīt received aything. I was deferred to the regular cycle and nothing!!! I guess they will really finish accepting by late April!

When I sent an e-mail to HLS the inmediately replied with my rejection so, I really donīt feel like e-mailing CLS.
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niah

Joined: 09 Mar 2008
Posts: 7
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Mon Apr 07, 2008 07:54 PM
I sent an e-mail to CLS last week (on Thursday) asking them about any info on my application and I still do not have a reply. Nothing. Zero. Is this normal??? I do not know what to think.
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llmer

Joined: 25 Jan 2008
Posts: 14
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Mon Apr 07, 2008 08:32 PM
I'm in the same situation, they have replied to my email that my application is still under review and they will inform me as soon as a decision has been taken...

I hope there still available seats...

Columbia's procedure realy sucks !!!
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