snowswirl

Nope, haven't heard either! I am starting to feel like members of the Columbia admissions committee probably check this forum every day cackling to themselves in the face of our suspense and agony...alternatively I may just be losing it at this point...

Well, I guess what would be the fun of being Columbia if not to mess with people's heads!

Yeah, I am in exactly the same boat. It probably only means that their system is slow and whatever and that we will get our rejections soon enough but, annoyingly, it leaves this vague glimmer of hope. Oh life!

Waait Columbia actually does interviews? I wasn't aware of that at all. I guess I might have a "Hey-no-PhD-for-you-but-wouldn't-you-like-to-pay-an-absurd-amount-of-dollars-for-our-Masters-program-email" coming my way

I'm the Johns Hopkins interviewee and I am quite surprised actually. The email implies that all those on the shortlist are interviewed (although POI used the term "long list" to refer to the shortlist, confusing! so maybe the list is long? idk). POI wants to speak before Feb 10 so I assume that's around the time final decisions will be made. 

This process is going to be the death of me. Whatever Foucault said about diffuse, anonymous power is exemplified by this feeling of sending one's best intellectual efforts into an institutional void! 
On a slightly saner note, does anyone know what Columbia's deal is? Do they interview? Or do they just not communicate with you till the very end when they kindly decide to reject you through an online portal?