If you are an international student, applying from outside
the United States and you wish to pay the application fee by check rather than a
credit card, payment of the application fee must be remitted as outlined above,
but with the following conditions: pre-printed on the check must be: a) the US
address, and b) the nine-digit ABA or routing number at the bottom. Applications
are not considered complete unless accompanied by the fee.
The Graduate School requires the submission of scores
from the Graduate Record Examination General Test. Subject Test scores should be submitted if
they are required by the department or program to which the applicant is
applying. Applicants are urged to take the GRE and TOEFL, if required, well in
advance of the admissions deadline. The TOEFL is required of all applicants who have received an undergraduate degree from an institution in a
country whose official language is not English.For complete information about the GRE or TOEFL,
write to the Educational Testing Service, PP Box 6000, Princeton, NJ 08541-6000;
Tel.: (609) 771-7670; Web site: http://www.gre.org
(see Graduate Record Examination section in the Instructions for Completing the
Application). Applicants to the Master of Arts degree program in Mathematics of Finance, may substitute the GMAT for
the GRE General Test.
Applicants to ALL OTHER programs may not substitute the GMAT for the GRE General Examination.
Letters of evaluation must be
submitted online. Before starting your online application, check with
the individuals, preferably professors, from whom you are requesting evaluations to see if they
would like to use our secure online system. The process is
simple for them to use, and allows you to track the status of
the evaluation using the ApplyYourself system. You may submit your
online application even if the letters of evaluation have not yet
been submitted by your evaluators. When the letters are submitted, we
will attach them to your application.
Please use the cover sheets provided in the Downloadable Forms section of your online application when mailing us any supporting materials for your application. These forms contain the specific AY number for the account you use to
submit your application. If you cannot attach or use one of the forms,
if possible, write the AY number on each document you submit. There
will be a delay in processing your application materials submitted
without the AY number.
All materials should be sent to the Office of Admissions, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 107 Low Library, 535 West 116th Street, MC 4304, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
Students denied admission may reapply in a subsequent year
if further training or experience is presented to strengthen the application.
However, applicants who have not been
offered admission to the same department or program for three (3) consecutive
years should not apply to GSAS.
