
So if Columbia drops their GS totally from the system, would this make our society better? |
Whatever you’re drinking, I want some. |
My kid with great stats would love to be a Columbia alum but alas they rejected him earlier this year |
Not really. You are the only person who is obsessed with the college of General Studies. I know a few dummies who went to Harvard. It doesn’t affect their brand one bit |
They have interviews designed to filter out the best students, academically. This is unlike the US where the goal of the interview is to filter out social undeireables (usually Asians, hence their lower scores in interviews). |
Columbia’s new pitch this fall: Yes, we’re now ranked 28 but did you hear about that dumb kid who went to Harvard? |
Yup. Everyone all over the world seems to know Cornell. It has a top notch reputation perhaps because it has a reputation for being a tough school. There are some clueless idiots on here who love to trash it but they just come across as ignorant |
Isn’t Columbia Law School considered one of the top 5? |
there's a real major called "general studies"? ![]() |
+1 Columbia ranks pretty high in other ranking services that don't require Columbia or other institutions' data input. |
No, it is the school of general studies: https://www.gs.columbia.edu/ "The School of General Studies of Columbia University is the finest liberal arts college in the United States created specifically for returning and nontraditional students seeking a rigorous, traditional, Ivy League undergraduate degree full or part time. GS is also home to innovative dual and joint degree programs open to all students, including those applying directly from high school, in partnership with List College of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Sciences Po, Trinity College Dublin, Tel Aviv University, and City University of Hong Kong." |
And remember Columbia was the first ivy to pull out of the standardized test scores permanently. No one laughed. |
If Columbia were not in NYC, it would not be that popular. Except for those who ONLY care about going to Ivy League college
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If you include GS, no. For nearly all HS students in America and in the world who apply to Columbia right out of college, GS drops out as irrelevant. They automatically apply to Columbia College or the engineering school. Including GS in the ranking is just silly. |
If Columbia were not in NYC, it probably would be the same. For everyone who wants to go to college in NYC, there is someone who would never want to be in NYC. It works both ways in other words. Having a rigorous core curriculum requirement also turns off thousands of students. The Columbia haters fail to recognize that it is the 5th oldest college (many founding fathers including Alexander Hamilton, John Jay), has impressive alumni from Obama to Eric Holder, Neil Gorsuch, William Barr (lol), Warren Buffett, etc. The school awards the most prestigious Awards in journalism, Pulitzers, the physics dept practically invented the Manhattan Project leading to the atomic bomb, it is among the handful of universities around the world with the highest number of Nobel affiliates, etc. It is also one of the wealthiest schools in the world. In other words, I don't think its world-wide reputation is a result from its location in NYC or because it is a member of an athletic league. Only a handful of schools can compare to it when it comes to any objective measure. |