Columbia MFE Columbia MFE Admission Discussion

[fhu]

Absolutely nothing. They haven't reviewed my application yet and it's way past the deadline

 

[smithquant]

have you guys not seen whats going on at columbia. i dont think the committee is getting any work done right now

 

[fhu]

Yea. But isn't it their responsibility to let us know an update regarding the delay? Why are they ghosting like this?

 

[IzabelaRutkowski]

Yea. But isn't it their responsibility to let us know an update regarding the delay? Why are they ghosting like this?

Dear fhu,

The deadline to apply is in a few days and we send offers on a rolling basis. We are not ghosting the applicants. Please remember that the MAFN program is very competitive.

Izabela

 

[IzabelaRutkowski]

Honestly Columbia taking this much time to respond is a big red flag. It is not that complicated to evaluate applications and admit those who are most qualified. If the program actually has the best interest of their potential students in mind, they would not make them wait until May to know where they will go to graduate school. Not to mention the fact that we paid money to have our applications evaluated with the expectation we would have a decision by March. At this point, even if I was accepted I would decline solely based on the programs clear incompetence.

Thank you for you comment, Grumpybear. The deadline to apply to our program is in May and the decisions are given out on a rolling basis. Also, I do not know if you follow the news, but the MAFN Program Director passed away last week. It caused a slight delay.

 

[redoctober]

Dear fhu,

The deadline to apply is in a few days and we send offers on a rolling basis. We are not ghosting the applicants. Please remember that the MAFN program is very competitive.

Izabela

Accidentally wrong program I think haha

I think MAFN has been very transparent about the process with regular communication but everyone here is discussing IEOR’s MFE that is well past the decision deadline with 0 communication.

 

[IzabelaRutkowski]

Accidentally wrong program I think haha

I think MAFN has been very transparent about the process with regular communication but everyone here is discussing IEOR’s MFE that is well past the decision deadline with 0 communication.

Thank you for the clarification! The MAFN program sent out a bunch of new offers very recently.

 

[smithquant]

Thank you for the clarification! The MAFN program sent out a bunch of new offers very recently.

Can you give any insight on the MFE program or at least have someone involved in the program join the thread?

 

[IzabelaRutkowski]

Can you give any insight on the MFE program or at least have someone involved in the program join the thread?

No, I am sorry. We are two separate programs.

 

[kwatz]

Thank you for the clarification! The MAFN program sent out a bunch of new offers very recently.

Hi @IzabelaRutkowski, thank you for trying to make an effort to have some official line of communication but like another commenter said, this is the thread for IEOR's MFE. I was wondering if you could please direct someone from the IEOR department to this thread, since quite a few applicants seem to be anxiously awaiting decisions? There has been almost no communication from IEOR regarding the delay, and it is quite late in the admissions cycle at this point. Any sort of update from the department apart from a boilerplate response would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Alex Ng]

It's just laughable at this point that we are still waiting on a program in May whose website says the decision timeline is late Feb to late March.

It's even more funny considering the MAFN program from the same school at least has an admissions rep coming to talk about updates and answer questions, while people hear nothing from MFE.

 

[redoctober]

Like others have said, even if MFE does give an admit I don’t know how excited I’d be anymore

Maybe I should apply to MAFN where it appears they care about their applicants more, I might even get a response faster than continuing to wait on MFE haha

 

[Grumpybear]

Thank you for you comment, Grumpybear. The deadline to apply to our program is in May and the decisions are given out on a rolling basis. Also, I do not know if you follow the news, but the MAFN Program Director passed away last week. It caused a slight delay.

lol wrong program

 

[strattb]

Did anyone here try to contact ieor admissions recently? I sent an email some days ago and I've been calling but no response.

 

[fhu]

I also sent an email last week and they replied with that same generic response that everyone gets usually.

 

[Alex Ng]

Did anyone here try to contact ieor admissions recently? I sent an email some days ago and I've been calling but no response.

No one really bothers to contact them anymore. Unless you have specific questions outside admissions or admissions timeline, you just get boilerplate response that they probably copied and pasted onto their email.

Even with non-admissions related questions, I wouldn't be surprised if they just ghost you given what's happening on their campus and their notorious delay in admissions.

 

[mr_spectre]

My current status has changed. I don't know when exactly this happened because I hadn't checked for about 2 weeks.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

A quick show of hands on how many people are still waiting for Columbia MFE to give them a decision?
A quick check on the Tracker shows roughly 30 pending cases, but the actual number would be much higher. This is a significant issue for those affected, given that other applicants already have their plans in place.

 

[Stoicismatters]

A quick show of hands on how many people are still waiting for Columbia MFE to give them a decision?
A quick check on the Tracker shows roughly 30 pending cases, but the actual number would be much higher. This is a significant issue for those affected, given that other applicants already have their plans in place.

waiting

 

[potatopeeler]

A quick show of hands on how many people are still waiting for Columbia MFE to give them a decision?
A quick check on the Tracker shows roughly 30 pending cases, but the actual number would be much higher. This is a significant issue for those affected, given that other applicants already have their plans in place.

Waiting