We’re excited to announce that admissions decisions have been released for the MIA, MPA, and MPA-DP programs. Applicants are notified by an email asking them to check their Status Page.
To all of our applicants, regardless of your decision, be sure to check back here for updates on next steps over the next few weeks.
A huge congratulations to the admitted students among all of the SIPA programs! Connect with your SIPA community at @columbia.sipa.
It’s Spring break at SIPA so students are out — some are working on their Capstone projects while others are recharging somewhere around the world. Decisions went out this week — We have received quiet a few emails and calls about what it all means…
So we thought it might be helpful to provide a little insight…
If you have been admitted… CONGRATULATIONS! We hope you choose to come to SIPA and join our diverse community. There are several events coming up in the next few weeks to provide a little exposure to SIPA — check them out in the Welcome page, which was referenced in your admission letter. You may participate in as many as you wish (at least physically since some may require you to be in two places at the same time); an RSVP is required for all of the events. Information will be communicated through the Welcome page, email or on this blog.
If you were one of the few who was put on the wait list… there’s still hope. However, we will not begin reviewing the wait listed candidates until April (at the earliest). If SIPA is one of your top choices and you can wait to hear, let us know. If you are risk-averse and decide to enroll elsewhere, please let us know so we may remove you from consideration. Other than informing us of your intentions, there is nothing else you need to do — but wait.
If you were not offered admission to SIPA this year, we are happy to provide some feedback on your application. However, at present time the focus of the Committee is to complete our final application review and provide information for our admitted candidates. You are welcome to send our office an email in June requesting feedback. On our website, we have put together some common reasons we are unable to offer admission to applicants, that may be a good place to start. Unfortunately, there is no appeal process — the Admissions Committee reads each application thoroughly and considers all applicants seriously.
Many of you have been patiently waiting for news from us… We’re not there yet but we are very close to the finished line.
On Monday we will begin releasing decisions. As a reminder, you will receive an email from us when your decision is ready to be viewed on the application web site. Not all decisions will be published on the same day and at the same time — unfortunately, we cannot provide estimates on when individual decisions will be published. But the goal is to have all (minus a few exceptions) of them published next week.
After all these weeks of waiting for news; some of you will be pleased and others… well there is always next time. We have been very impressed with the quality of applicants this year so thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge with us. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you.
Have a great weekend.
“…of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
We will begin rolling out decisions today; however, don’t be discouraged if you haven’t heard from us yet. It can take a few days from when a decision is made to when it is released to the system. We don’t publish all our decisions in a single day, so if yours doesn’t happen to be one of the first to be finalized, hang in there. Waiting isn’t easy but sometimes “it’s” worth the wait.
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—Merit E. Janow, Dean, SIPA, Professor of Practice, International and Economic Law and International Affairs
