Columbia ETP 2015

sophs12 · Nov 9, 2014

Thanks! One more... did they say people who submit sooner are looked upon more favorably? Just curious as I was reviewing that application info email sent about a month ago, and it says "applicants are highly encouraged to submit sooner rather than later."

DivaliciousMe85 · Nov 9, 2014

Nothing about submitting applications sooner, but admissions did mention if you have MOST of your prerequisites done you'll be looked upon more favorably than those who have 4 or 5 still left to do.

They reevaluate all applications throughout the process. So they look at the deadline...then look again when other pieces come in....then look again towards the end...then again to make final decisions. So they're constantly filtering through every application regardless of when it was submitted.

sophs12 · Nov 12, 2014

Anyone know if they'll see the real document you uploaded? My resume formatting is all messed up in the preview for some reason, and I can't fix it. It looks fine in Word :/

Mammal · Nov 12, 2014

Can you save it as a PDF or JPEG?

sophs12 · Nov 12, 2014

Good idea! I'll try

zoiKers · Nov 12, 2014

Did you try to make your resume a PDF from the word doc? You can preview your whole application and all the docs you uploaded if you go to confirm when you're about to submit it.

sophs12 · Nov 13, 2014

Thanks for the help, both of you. It's very odd... when I'm in a Word doc, I always click "don't add a space between paragraphs of the same time. Yet when I preview, for instance, my addendum, the paragraphs look messed up, like almost on top of each other, even though it's fine in the document. So weird. I might have to make everything PDF for a peace of mind.

zoiKers · Nov 13, 2014

Yeah, I would just do PDF because you also don't want them accidentally changing anything by accident. They say to always do PDFs for resume when searching for jobs to keep formatting in tact.

sophs12 · Nov 13, 2014

Cool, thank you! It looks way better as a PDF too... I spent an embarrassingly long time figuring out how to combat this issue >_

zoiKers · Nov 13, 2014

Yeah PDF is the way to go! Glad you figured it out.

jennnnnn · Nov 13, 2014

Hi @ang117!

Graduating with honors-impressive! Looking back, I talked to some friends in the program and I believe Admissions puts more weight on the personal statement than everything else. My grades, GRE scores, and extracurriculars were above some of my classmates yet they were placed in the more competitive specialty... so I think that the fault in my application was that I didn't spend too much time perfecting my personal statement.

sophs12 · Nov 13, 2014

One last silly logistical question for everyone before I submit. Did you all answer the prompts on the PS in order or just let your essay flow naturally? Common sense would dictate that as long as you address all components, you'd be fine. However, I'm in that last-few-days doubt-everything stage and want to know how everyone else interpreted the prompt on this front :)