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Columbia’s Application For First-Year Admission 2012–2013 Office of Undergraduate Admissions 212 Hamilton Hall, MC 2807 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Important Dates and Late March/Early April Locations Deadlines Admissions: Admissions and financial aid decisions released online to Regular Office Of Undergraduate Admissions November 1 Decision candidates and invitations 212 Hamilton Hall Admissions: Application deadline for mailed for on-campus and regional Early Decision candidates. programs for admitted students. Visitors Center 213 Low Library November 15 May 1 Financial Aid: Early Decision candidates Admissions: Deposit deadline for Regular Office of Financial Aid & Educational must submit the CSS Profile and Decision admitted students. Financing parents’ 2011 Federal Tax Returns and, if 618 Alfred Lerner Hall applicable, business/farm tax information May 15 and their Non-Custodial Profile. Admissions: Deadline for requesting While actual locations are different for deferral of admission. the Office of Undergraduate Mid-December Admissions and the Office of Financial Admissions: Admissions decisions June 14 Aid & Educational Financing, all released online to Early Decision Admissions: Final high school transcripts correspondence may be directed to: candidates. due for incoming students (or as soon as 212 Hamilton Hall, MC 2807 degree is conferred). 1130 Amsterdam Avenue January 1 New York, NY 10027 Admissions: Application deadline for Late August Regular Decision candidates. New Student Orientation Program and academic year begin. Phone Numbers, E-mail January 15 and Websites Admissions: Deposit deadline for Early Please be advised that all deadlines listed Decision admitted students. above are postmark deadlines. Office of Undergraduate Admissions 212-854-2522 March 1 Fax: 212-854-3393 Financial Aid: All aid candidates must E-mail: [email protected] submit copies of their own and their www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/ parents’ 2012 Federal Tax Returns, admissions/ all schedules and W-2 forms. All aid candidates who are U.S. citizens must Office of Financial Aid & Educational submit their FAFSA. All Regular Decision Financing aid candidates must submit the CSS 212-854-3711 Profile. If applicable, Regular Decision Fax: 212-854-5353 candidates must also submit their Non- E-mail: [email protected] Custodial Profile and/or business/farm www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/finaid/ tax information. To track the status of your application for admission, please visit: www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/ admissions/ To access Columbia course bulletins and other publications, go to: www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/ admissions/ 1 Application Instructions Office of Undergraduate Admissions 212 Hamilton Hall, MC 2807 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 We greatly appreciate your interest in Columbia and look forward to getting to know you through your application. Please read our Application Instructions carefully before beginning your application. Columbia participates in The Common After submitting an application, you Please note that Columbia reserves the Application and additionally requires the will receive an e-mail from Columbia right to evaluate an application and Columbia Supplement to The Common officially acknowledging receipt of your render a final decision even if all pieces of Application. We strongly encourage application and providing a unique the application have not been received. students to apply online. Please use applicant ID number. (Columbia ID the paper application only if you do not numbers begin with C00.) Please allow Columbia does not accept the Universal have access to the internet. up to 30 days after submitting your College Application. Visit www.studentaffairs.columbia. application to receive your Columbia ID. edu/admissions/ to access The Please keep this e-mail and ID number for Common Application and the Columbia your records; it will be used throughout Supplement. Applying electronically will the admissions process. expedite the processing and accuracy of your completed application. Using your Columbia applicant ID, you should track the status of your application and the receipt of all required documents by using our online tracking system: www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/ admissions/ You are responsible for the accurate completion and submission of your application and should periodically check this site to ensure that all required materials have been received and processed. 2 Application Instructions Continued Office of Undergraduate Admissions 212 Hamilton Hall, MC 2807 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 The Common Application Secondary School Report, The Common Application provides your Midyear Report and Final autobiographical data in addition to lists Report and descriptions of your achievements, The Secondary School Report, activities, employment and summer Midyear Report and Final Report are activities and one personal statement. the documents your school will use to You must submit The Common report your academic achievements; Application no later than November 1 for they should be given to your guidance Early Decision and January 1 for Regular counselor, principal or other appropriate Decision. The application fee is $80. school official. The Secondary School This fee covers processing costs and Report must be returned to us by cannot be refunded or credited against November 1 for Early Decision and later charges. Waivers of the application January 1 for Regular Decision. The fee are granted only at the request of an Midyear Report, a summary of your appropriate school official testifying to academic performance in the first part of family financial hardship. this academic year, must be postmarked no later than February 1, or as soon as midyear grades are available. Your school Columbia Supplement to may fax this form with your grades to the Common Application 212-854-3393, though an official copy must also be mailed. (Note: If you have The Columbia Supplement to The already finished secondary school, then Common Application asks some required, your school may disregard the Midyear Columbia-specific questions and is your Report.) School officials may also submit chance to tell us more about yourself. these forms online. The Final Report In the Supplement, you must be sure should NOT be submitted until you to indicate to which school you are have actually received your diploma or applying: Columbia College or The Fu equivalent credential. Your guidance Foundation School of Engineering and counselor, principal or other appropriate Applied Science (Columbia Engineering). school official may also submit these You may not apply to both schools forms online. simultaneously. Your completed Supplement must be submitted by November 1 for Early Decision and January 1 for Regular Decision. Teacher Evaluations Teacher Evaluations give two teachers the opportunity to document your contributions in the classroom. Please select only teachers who instructed you in academic disciplines. If you are applying to Columbia Engineering, one evaluation must come from a mathematics or science teacher. Teacher Evaluations must be submitted by November 1 for Early Decision and January 1 for Regular Decision. Teachers may also submit these forms online. 3 Application Instructions Continued Office of Undergraduate Admissions 212 Hamilton Hall, MC 2807 1130 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Required Standardized Columbia’s Testing Policy Helpful Information Testing for Score Choice ● You must register with the appropriate testing agency well in advance of your Standardized tests are required for Applicants may select the Score Choice desired test date. admission according to the following option for the SAT or choose to submit ● You may register for the SAT and SAT guidelines; all test scores must be specific ACT composite scores. However, Subject Tests with the Educational submitted directly to Columbia by the it should be noted that the application Testing Service (ETS). For the ACT, testing agency. review process for Columbia College and register with the American College The Fu Foundation School of Engineering Testing Program. SAT and SAT Subject Tests and Applied Science is rooted in the ● You must request that your scores be The SAT consists of three sections, belief that students are dynamic, multi- reported directly to Columbia every each graded on an 800-point scale; faceted individuals who cannot be time you take a standardized test. if you take the test more than once, defined by any single factor to determine ● For the SAT or SAT Subject Tests, the you will be evaluated on the highest their suitability for admission. When ETS code for both Columbia College score you receive in any individual evaluating applicants, we consider only and The Fu Foundation School of section. In addition, you must also take the highest testing results reported from Engineering and Applied Science two SAT Subject Tests. For Columbia individual sections of the SAT and the two is 2116. College, you may take any two; for highest required SAT Subject Tests or the ● The ACT code for both Columbia Columbia Engineering, you must take highest composite on the ACT, always College and The Fu Foundation School any mathematics test and either biology, seeking to give students the greatest of Engineering and Applied Science physics or chemistry. opportunity to showcase their academic is 2717. talents and hoping to make the testing ● Please note that scores reported to ACT experience as stress-free as possible.