DC headed to columbia

[Anonymous]

Kid will be fine academically. These kind of disruptions can happen anywhere

[Anonymous]

From the Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/campus-protests-arrests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Anonymous wrote:I would seriously consider not sending a child to Columbia University. They cancelled in person classes for the rest of the semester and can’t guarantee to keep your children safe.

Where did you get this info? Classes Monday were moved online, but will be in person for the rest of the sem.

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Anonymous wrote:I would seriously consider not sending a child to Columbia University. They cancelled in person classes for the rest of the semester and can’t guarantee to keep your children safe.

Where did you get this info? Classes Monday were moved online, but will be in person for the rest of the sem.

Per CNN, Columbia University main campus classes will be hybrid until semester ends.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/business/columbia-tensions-passover-virtual-classes/index.html

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Anonymous wrote:They have academic supports he can utilize. I’m assuming he might be a “big fish in a little pond” at his current rural school, and he will likely feel like a “small fish” at Columbia.

He should take advantage of the supports offered. Assuming he’s a naturally smart kid, he might not be used to having to study in the way it will be required at a place like Columbia. He may need to learn better study skills and time management.

Here’s a link to supports they offer. https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/csa/academicsupport

Yes, this. I was going to suggest that your kid look for academic supports early.

Also, encourage them to reach out to professors and TAs. Set up times to discuss material (don't feel confined to office hours).

Congratulations!!!

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Anonymous wrote:From the students newspaper
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/columbia-university-protests-presidents-jewish-students-encampment.html

I would still let my kid go.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:FYI: not looking for As but Bs.

FWIW, I was a professor at Columbia and Yale. It is difficult to get B's at Yale, because only 11% of students get them. But 79% get A's or A-minuses. Columbia is similar.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/12/06/nearly-80-percent-grades-yale-were-last-year

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Anonymous wrote:They have academic supports he can utilize. I’m assuming he might be a “big fish in a little pond” at his current rural school, and he will likely feel like a “small fish” at Columbia.

He should take advantage of the supports offered. Assuming he’s a naturally smart kid, he might not be used to having to study in the way it will be required at a place like Columbia. He may need to learn better study skills and time management.

Here’s a link to supports they offer. https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/csa/academicsupport

Yes, this. I was going to suggest that your kid look for academic supports early.

Also, encourage them to reach out to professors and TAs. Set up times to discuss material (don't feel confined to office hours).

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations OP. Columbia is a great school with so many opportunities to take advantage. Lots of kids feel like small fish when they join. But it's a relatively small undergraduate class within a larger university, and most kids love it.

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia today, another school tomorrow. Avoiding one school won’t shield our students from what’s going on.

The full on endorsement of this mahem by Columbia and its professors is what sets Columbia apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid will be fine academically. These kind of disruptions can happen anywhere

But they don't...

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Anonymous wrote:I would seriously consider not sending a child to Columbia University. They cancelled in person classes for the rest of the semester and can’t guarantee to keep your children safe.

I agree.

Families who paid tuition for in person classes deserve refunds.

I would not send any kid to a university that is allowing, with professor support, this kind of violence, racism and antisemitism to flourish on campus.

OP, look at the kind of humans Columbia is producing. Is this the kind of person you want to pay a small fortune for your kid to become?

Calm down troll. Many colleges are experiencing protests. NYU, Yale, USC, Harvard, MIT Not just Columbia. This isn't new to America--there was major unrest during the Vietnam era too. Feel free to send your kid to NoName U that is peaceful right now. That just means the students there are too ignorant or too apathetic to care about war.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599

Guarantee you my neighbor's kid who's headed to Annapolis this summer doesn't have to worry about protests - nor is she too ignorant or apathic to care. Your feigned concern is obvious and uneducated.

The word is "apathetic" not apathic. And you're kidding yourself if you think students at a prestigious military academy with students who are most at risk of being sent to the front lines are sitting there blissfully unaware of the global conflict around them and what these protests mean.

[Anonymous]

I went from my small rural high school (with no AP/Honors—school did not offer them) to Cornell. The freshman class had more people than my town. I would recommend your DC do what I didn’t and take all opportunities offered to join study groups/additional TA sessions. Go to office hours or even try to meet outside of office hours. Join a club where there are upperclassmen who have taken the courses and can offer advice on a course or professor.

Also (unlike high school) it can be better to hang out with the hardest working kids rather than the smartest—all the kids are very bright of course but there will be some actual geniuses, which your DC may not have encountered in HS (unless they are one). In my experience these kids carried heavy course loads, appeared to do little work and got excellent grades. One friend of mine like this was in ROTC, a frat, on a club sports team, acted in several student plays and called me multiple times a week to “go out drinking.” I never saw him open a book. He later graduated from Harvard Law School. I could not do that, I had to study and be around people studying.

FWIW there was definitely not grade inflation at Cornell then (I got the first C’s of my life) but there is at Columbia now so that should help your DC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would seriously consider not sending a child to Columbia University. They cancelled in person classes for the rest of the semester and can’t guarantee to keep your children safe.

Where did you get this info? Classes Monday were moved online, but will be in person for the rest of the sem.

Per CNN, Columbia University main campus classes will be hybrid until semester ends.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/business/columbia-tensions-passover-virtual-classes/index.html

That is different from remote. 'Hybrid' in reality really just means they have asked professors to be somewhat more accommodating if students are unable to attend in person. Please don't overdramatize the situation, or at the very least, recognize that a lot of outside media is not doing a great job of accurately portraying reality of situation on campus. (source: typing this from my very much in person class)

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations, but you may want to consider asking for a deferral. The protests will continue at least until January of 25. I suspect given the current situation many accepted students will request deferrals. They can only accept so many of those requests.

Agree with this. OP, have you clicked on the news? Columbia is full of angry student protesters being egged on by their professors, and unlike other schools which are dismantling the encampments, Columbia is holding steady. Is your child an activist?

Your generalizations are laughable and inaccurate. As an alum, I was far from the protesting type unless it was a "take back the night" event. There are many students who are holding their breath and waiting for this to be over.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations, but you may want to consider asking for a deferral. The protests will continue at least until January of 25. I suspect given the current situation many accepted students will request deferrals. They can only accept so many of those requests.

Agree with this. OP, have you clicked on the news? Columbia is full of angry student protesters being egged on by their professors, and unlike other schools which are dismantling the encampments, Columbia is holding steady. Is your child an activist?

Your generalizations are laughable and inaccurate. As an alum, I was far from the protesting type unless it was a "take back the night" event. There are many students who are holding their breath and waiting for this to be over.

+1 Someone seems eager to malign Columbia when these protests are occurring at campuses across the country. Divisive wars tend to do that.