Admissions Decisions Are Up and Out
Admissions decisions are online now! It feels like the Terrible Twelves barely had time to learn how to pronounce ‘Schermerhorn’ before being shunted aside by the newer model, but such is the circle of life. It moves us all.
As the Spec reported, regular-decision acceptances were sent off yesterday with pomp, circumstance, and “a middle-aged man wrapped in a light blue flag.” Welcome, Class of 2013. Oh, the nickname you’re going to get, once we think of one.
Columbia issued polite invitations to some 2,496 high school seniors to make Alma Mater their new boss come September. The overall acceptance rate was 9.82, with a CC acceptance rate of 8.92 (up from last year) and a SEAS rate of 14.42 (down). This year yields, yet again, the lowest admissions rate ever.
Congratulations, and we’ll see you at Days On Campus, looking for that elusive owl.
Tags: admissions, that owl
31 March 2009 @ 2:24 PM · 33 comments
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How long before we here from Stephan’s successor?
SEAS is getting really competitive
of Schermerhorn, how DO you pronounce it? Like “school” or like “Schapiro”?
Schermerhorn: Schapiro.
has been, and always will be, pronounced like “Skermerhorn”.
Like Schapiro.
Are you sure it’s not pronounced like “school?” I should probably know this by now…
Ah ha! http://www.wikicu.com/Schermerhorn
To be fair, though, anyone who’s lived in the LLC’s Vall-ah-shh Hall knows how adaptable pronunciation is.
schmermerhorn.
haha i’m so confused now. i need definite answers, here!
I thought they were already nicknamed the Unlucky 13’s?
shmermerhorn
shermerskermerhorn.
skermerhorn.
wait, maybe shermerhorn.
skermerhorn. but that sounds pompous and retarded, like ordering “brusketta” (the proper pronunciation).
so let’s just be normal and say shermerhorn and brushetta
we just want pics of hot boys.
Waiting sucks, any ideas of what to do in the mean time?
trust me, waiting is the best the part.
And Tom Petty agrees with me.
IS DEAD
and I’ll say it again… Bwog should conduct a poll to see how most people pronounce “Schermerhorn”. Results of the poll will then be the new official pronunciation.
you’re implying that because the majority of people do something it is somehow correct. *shudder* where’s your elitism, man?
I purposely avoid referring to Schermerhorn by name so that I won’t have to risk mis-pronouncing it.
Schermerhorn comes from dutch ancestry, where “Sch” is “Sk”. For anyone from upstate NY, think “Schenectady”.
Fun Fact: Prof. Alan Blaer pronounces it “Pyoo-peen”.
i had a professor call it poo-pin. and for some reason, i was the only person that laughed.
Professor Keyes just today pronounced it poo-PEEN as well.
So if we pronounce it Skermerhorn, should we also pronounce it Skapiro?
i totally know Schenectady. Sweet, that helps :)
skermerhorn:
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/SCHERMERHORN/2000-02/0949690181
also says pyoo-peen
said Pew-peen for Pupin at a Fireside Chat and there was a noticeable cringe in the crowd.
Go to Harvard or Columbia?
In my four years at Columbia (and in the many since then), I never heard anyone say “Shermerhorn”. As others have noted, the name is Dutch and is pronounced “Skermerhorn”. That is not an Americanization; it is the correct, original pronunciation.
Michael I. Pupin (for whom the physics/astronomy building is named) pronounced his name “Pyoo-PEEN”, so Prezbo and Blaer are correct. Even so, most people (including me) call the building “PYOO-pin” because that sounds so much more natural in English.
for that question.
Columbia.
when you stop at hoyt-schermerhorn station, the conductors pronounce it Skermerhorn