Niyati Roy

On Monday afternoon, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions sent out the much-awaited admission packages that had been causing sleepless nights for more than 22,000 hopefuls from across the country and the world. Columbia College received a total of 19,116 applications, a 5.7 percent increase from last year’s numbers, and admitted only 1,660.

What’s it like for a guy to live in an all-girls dorm? Marcos Garcia, CC ’08, spent a year in Barnard’s Plimpton Hall and lived to share the story.

Much-awaited admissions envelopes were mailed out to Columbia’s early decision admits to the classes of 2012 of Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science Tuesday afternoon. According to admissions statistics, the combined admit rate fell slightly from last year.

As private loans gain in popularity, Barnard College introduced an experimental program last year to cut back on the number of students taking out these loans.

Barnard College has offered places to 28 percent of 4,572 applicants who applied to become part of the class of 2011. The number of applications received remained about even with last year's figure.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions was a flurry of activity Wednesday afternoon as admissions officials ran to and fro, transporting large bins full of the highly anticipated thick DHL envelopes that more than 21,000 hopeful applicants all across the world-from New Jersey to Beijing-await with nervous excitement.

Parties running in the Columbia College Student Council race have taken up the cause for financial aid as its major advocate group has gone on hiatus.

For the fifth straight year, Columbia has broken its previous record for the number of applications received in a single year.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and the dean of Harvard Law School have something in common: they are both speculative candidates to become president of Harvard University.

Bustling with excited children and the smell of warm french fries, the new McDonald's on 104th and Broadway is full of activity late on a Sunday afternoon.

The outlet, which opened Oct. 6, has been met with mixed reactions from the local community. While some residents are relishing the fast food joint's addition, others disapprove of the chain's influence on the neighborhood.

Two men have been charged for the murder of Ishmael Cortez, who had worked as an employee of Dining Services at Barnard College for the past seven years.