Kathryn1994

Offered me a place and no I'm not accepting

If we were put on the waitlist do we need to get back to them and let them know we are declining and won't be attending?

Yes! Any questions let me know

Hi Yes! I applied for the 2 year traditional on campus. I would have commuted because I live right in NJ and it would have been a 45 min ride over the GW Bridge so not too too bad. I applied for the Family, Youth, and Children's Services field. While I was in undergrad I was actually a nursing major right up until my last semester. However, the stress of the program was too much and I wasn't happy. I was good at it, but quickly realized I could not spend my life working as a nurse. Seton Hall makes it easy for people to switch from nursing to social and behavioral sciences and all of classes counted. So I had one semester left. I was SOBS with a Sociology concentration. My GPA was also above a 3.0 and I graduated on Dean's List. I have also volunteered at Morristown Medical Center (one of the best hospitals in NJ) for over 2 years in the delirium prevention program. I go every Sunday and visit elderly patients and talk to them and help them complete activities that will help keep them mentally stimulated. In my essay, I focused on this experience as well as my people skills I learned while a nursing major and completing my clinical rotations for that. I hope to work in a hospital setting someday and many are not comfortable just walking into a hospital room and starting a conversation with a patient so I thought this helped make me a somewhat strong applicant. My volunteer work as well since I am communicating with the patient, their family if present, the doctors, and nurses. Hope this helped answer your question!

Thank you so much! And yeah, sadly it does. After reading through everyone's comments on this thread it seems that a lot are dealing with the same stuff.

Yeah I already committed to Rutgers because thats where I wanted to go from the beginning and they also let me know 2 weeks after I sent in my application that I was admitted. Columbia turned me off by their application process and I was really happy I found this forum/website to see how other people were handling it. I am a little annoyed because I want to know what they are basing their acceptance/waitlist people off of. I thought I was a strong applicant and one of my references actually works at a mental health center that Columbia uses for fieldwork so she knows people at Columbia. Not saying this would definitely get me in and I didn't know this until after she sent her letter in, but I thought it could help. Columbia only needs you to get back to them if you want to be put on the waitlist and they will notify you in April if you are accepted which is insane and a little late in the game. I might email to thank them but tell them I committed elsewhere so they can give someone else a spot who wants it.

I received an email around 5:30pm today and I was wait listed! Not sure if this helps anyone if you're still waiting to hear

Yeah! Thats where the MSW school is!

How did you find out you got in?

So excited I went to campus today to walk around, etc

What does your portal look like? I want to make sure I am actually looking at the correct thing. Is it it where it basically shows your application status and a green check next to everything that is in?

I applied for the same exact program and weird but our initials are the same haha

I posted a while back about being accepted to Rutgers MSW program, but I haven't seen many posts! I am going there this fall is there anyone else who decided on Rutgers!?

So crazy...I really don't understand how they're going about this. It seems other schools are so much more organized, etc.

Yeah I would maybe try to reach out today if I were you! Cause you really need to know