Hi all. Just wanted to highlight the fact that Columbia is trying to decrease their MSOR acceptance rate by finding out which applicants are not truly interested and then rejecting them.
I got a call from them asking if Columbia is my top choice, and when I asked them why they want to know, they replied "We intend on accepting you to the program but we just want to see how many people are likely to say yes so that we know how many people we should accept." I told them I decided not to choose Columbia, and received a rejection letter a couple of days later.
