Create new content type
Fill in name and choose Folder Content Type and Content Type “Folder” as parent
Assign the needed columns. In this case a status column
Choose add from existing content type to a document library
And choose new content type special folder
Afterwards you get a new column “status”
Now you can add a new folder with the New button for the document library
Now you can type the folder name and all meta data you configured. In this case the status
This is working for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010