Fall 2010 Applicant Facts Post #7 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog

Fall 2010 Applicant Facts Post #7 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog The fact/statistic this week on the applicant pool is mother tongue indicated on the application.   Many applicants did note two or three languages as native or noted varied versions of a similar base language (Mandarin/Cantonese for example) and I cleaned up the list to try to keep it to a single base language so it might appear slightly different than what you remember entering. The point is, there are a lot of different mother tongues represented within the applicant pool!   94 in the count below. Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assam Azerbaijani Azeri Bahasa Indonesia Bassa Belorussian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Czech Danish Dari Dutch Farsi Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Gonja Greek Gujarati Guyanese-Creole Haitian-Creole Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Kinyarwanda Korean Krio Kurdish Kyrgyz Luganda Luo Malayalam Mambwe Marathi Mende Mundari Nepali Norwegian Nyanja Oriya Ossetian Panjabi Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Serbo-Croatian Serer Shona Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Swahilli Swedish Swiss German Tagalog Tamil Telugu Thai Tigrinya Turkish Turkmenian Twi Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Wolof Xhosa Yoruba