Columbia University announced it received 3,520 early decision applications for the Class of 2020, up 4.4 percent from the previous year. The actual admission results were not provided. 
For those of you curious about how admission decisions are made, here's an interesting article from Business Insider on the Ivy League admissions process. Excerpted from a talk given by Nelson Urena, a former admissions officer at Cornell University, it outlines the typical steps that are taken from the time the application is submitted to the time the decision is rendered. Get our latest data and insights
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