Columbia permanently pulls out of US news

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me this indicates there is a very strong chance that after they were exposed by their tenured math professor (which quite honestly was extremely damning) they did their own audit and my gut tells me that the truth is much worse than what he uncovered. Otherwise, they would just come clean with the reality. That they didn't come back from his damning accusations and keep it real, indicates to me that there is a highly likely chance that the facts were way worse than what the math professor unearthed.

+1. Their internal audit revealed something much worse and unflattering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me this indicates there is a very strong chance that after they were exposed by their tenured math professor (which quite honestly was extremely damning) they did their own audit and my gut tells me that the truth is much worse than what he uncovered. Otherwise, they would just come clean with the reality. That they didn't come back from his damning accusations and keep it real, indicates to me that there is a highly likely chance that the facts were way worse than what the math professor unearthed.

+1. Their internal audit revealed something much worse and unflattering.

+2

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, I'm not a Columbia stan. They cheated on the rankings. I'm a fan of the GS program, which is 43% Pell-eligible students. So I dismiss the idea that this is a rich kids back door.

Columbia should shout it from the rooftops. Tell prospective Columbia College families know that they'll be sitting in the same classes with older, often part-time School of General Studies students and getting the same diplomas.

Please shut up and stop spreading incorrect information.

From Columbia's SGS homepage: 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."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure, I'm not a Columbia stan. They cheated on the rankings. I'm a fan of the GS program, which is 43% Pell-eligible students. So I dismiss the idea that this is a rich kids back door.

Columbia should shout it from the rooftops. Tell prospective Columbia College families know that they'll be sitting in the same classes with older, often part-time School of General Studies students and getting the same diplomas.

Please shut up and stop spreading incorrect information.

From Columbia's SGS homepage: 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."

Lmao that self-description is so embarrassing

[Anonymous]

This is going to have zero impact on Columbia's popularity or reputation you realize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is going to have zero impact on Columbia's popularity or reputation you realize.

People like me have always considered it a tier below the other ivies, so yes that will stay the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is going to have zero impact on Columbia's popularity or reputation you realize.

Over the time its position would be be solidified at high teens similar to Cornell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is going to have zero impact on Columbia's popularity or reputation you realize.

Over the time its position would be be solidified at high teens similar to Cornell.

Even that is a generous prediction.

[Anonymous]

I wish every elite university had a GS program. But then again, I support vets and I'm a feminist and the GS program has been a real boon to vets and women, especially mothers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me this indicates there is a very strong chance that after they were exposed by their tenured math professor (which quite honestly was extremely damning) they did their own audit and my gut tells me that the truth is much worse than what he uncovered. Otherwise, they would just come clean with the reality. That they didn't come back from his damning accusations and keep it real, indicates to me that there is a highly likely chance that the facts were way worse than what the math professor unearthed.

You know you're a laughingstock to me and others here, right?

Enjoy your NYU degree. Columbia's existence and obsessing about it are just highlighting the favorable Columbia comparison in your own mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish every elite university had a GS program. But then again, I support vets and I'm a feminist and the GS program has been a real boon to vets and women, especially mothers.

+100. It's a wonderful resource for part-time students like mothers, the 40% who are on Pell grants, and vets.

The hate here is unintelligible. Oh wait, it's two whole disgruntled NYU grads who desperately and pathetically want to climb that USNWR ladder. And so they ignore GS' great mission and the fact that GS wasn't even the "problem" cited by the math prof. Instead the math prof cited the share of PhD profs and class sizes, all of which are super fixable for a university with Columbia's endowment, if Columbia wanted to fix it, which apparently they don't.

[Anonymous]

CC (etc): residential life, core, all other classes.
GS: all other classes. (some residential options available, but not required).

If you are a high school senior and want a typical college experience, Columbia College (Columbia Engineering, etc) is for you.

But if you have experience beyond high school, and don't feel the need to take a lot of discussion-based classes focused on the Western canon, then GS is for you.

Again, GS students are in the same classes as other Columbia students.

Either way, your LinkedIn profile will Columbia University.

I suspect there's a lot more love for GS in NYC than outside NYC, only because so many of us have colleagues and relatives who, say, fought wars and then went to college. Or raised kids and then went to college. Or had to care for a sick parent as a 17yo and worked and then found their way back to college. Or were a young coder and was lured away with a 100k google job right out of high school and is now working their way to a degree - I have two of those in my office right now.

Anyway, nobody is forced to go to GS so you really shouldn't be scared of it if it's not for you.

[Anonymous]

All good about GS and happy for you, but don’t cheat on ranking.

That's the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All good about GS and happy for you, but don’t cheat on ranking.

That's the point.

Columbia had someone internally who exposed the class size and PhD prof issues (NOT GS, you need to stop trashing them when they aren’t even the issue). Columbia hasn’t fired him.

Meanwhile USNWR can’t verify 80% of what colleges tell them, according to the same prof.

So you know ALL or NEARLY ALL colleges are cheating. This is undoubtedly going on everywhere.

Ergo the USNWR rankings are garbage.

That’s the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All good about GS and happy for you, but don’t cheat on ranking.

That's the point.

Columbia had someone internally who exposed the class size and PhD prof issues (NOT GS, you need to stop trashing them when they aren’t even the issue). Columbia hasn’t fired him.

Meanwhile USNWR can’t verify 80% of what colleges tell them, according to the same prof.

So you know ALL or NEARLY ALL colleges are cheating. This is undoubtedly going on everywhere.

Ergo the USNWR rankings are garbage.

That’s the point.

Problem is people use it like Moses brought down the rankings from the mountain. Diet Coke is bad for you. People drink it. Cigarettes and Alcohol are bad for you, people consume them. Kardashians are trash--people watch them. See the point?