2022 US News Best National Universities
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SGS at Columbia is a special program for adults to received a BA as a separate degree from the College. They are two SEPARATE institutions at Columbia. The real ivy league program with the 3.7% admissions this year ( and 5.1-6 % admissions in previous years) you are addressing is Columbia College. SGS is a great program for adults and students who took time out from study either after high school or at som later time and decided to return to higher education. Their admissions has nothing to do with Columbia College, and they receive a separate BA which says SGS. USNWR knows all about this. the only one whodoes not seem to appreciate this distinction is you. Maybe you ar the one in need of an opportunity to return to higher education as an adult. Why don't you apply to SGS? I m sure its admissions committee would be intrigued by your application and consider you either for admissions or make recommendation that you get some therapy to overcome whatever personal esteeem difficulties you are facing. |
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The transfer acceptance rate into Columbia College is very small. Most of the few transfer students accepted have very high GPA's and 1500 plus board scores. So, what is your problem ? Do you need a psychiatrist to examine why you send out fake news ? Were you rejected ? Are you suffering from some inferiority complex ? ...Your writing certainly indicates personality self-esteem issues. Do you have access to therapy to help you with a sense of self-worth ? |
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Actually, Columbia did discriminate. It is just that there were so many tons of brilliant students from a Jewish background ( along with other brilliant students ) it established Seth Low Junior College in Brooklyn. Isaac Asimov, future famous physicists, and other very gifted individuals were rejected because of their ethnicity. |
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US News rankings are hurting education and the futures of our young people …. For those with ears to hear, and a heart for those being excluded from access to quality educations, please read on with an open mind beyond where your or your children’s alma matas are ranked:
 Here is the most impressive rankings for colleges - those high on the social mobility index -ranking the colleges that allow the most people to succeed in a world with growing wealth inequalities and access to quality education.
 https://www.socialmobilityindex.org
 Bravo California (and well done on throwing out the naked power grab to oust your democratically elected governor) …. These top ten access generators may not be high up the US News rankings but they are educational power houses.
Rank SMI Institution 1 366.426858 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College 2 359.3971 California State University-Los Angeles 3 328.993176 California State University-Fresno 4 288.894874 California State University-Northridge 5 282.896227 California State University-Long Beach 6 276.898345 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 7 275.785038 California State University-San Bernardino 8 268.666227 CUNY Queens College 9 267.78645 CUNY Hunter College 10 257.857316 California State University-Dominguez Hills According to SMI group, “despite the growing economic importance of the college degree, the proportion of US high school graduates going to college – a figure that increased for decades – is now declining. The upward ratchet in tuition since the 1980's has progressively limited affordability and access to college education. In 1980, for example, college tuition took an average bite of 26 percent of the median family income in the US; by 2004, this figure had more than doubled, to 56 percent.
One of the main culprits driving the tuition increases, and thus one of the central impediments to economic mobility, has been higher education's pursuit of the rankings, particularly those put forward by US News & World Report. Asked to explain the factors behind tuition jumps at Cornell, economists there remarked that "how much the university spends per student for education and maintaining a low student/faculty ratio both weigh heavily in determining rankings. Any slippage in the rankings is extremely costly to the institution." A study published in Research in Higher Education by a former Provost at the University of Rochester added that if a college or university wanted to move into one of the top 20 slots in the US News rankings it would have to increase spending by tens of millions of dollars a year. “
 This means the often frivolous pursuit of dominance in the US News rankings are directly hurting millions of students and prospective students by driving up tuition costs and hence creating an even more unequal society than we already had.
Education is supposed to empower our young people not enslave them to life long debt or create so many barriers that they can never get in the front door.
Well done Cal and NY and even some deep red states are doing better than most states in providing more opportunities to enter/ stay in the shrinking middle classes.
Ave SMI Rank State 1 CA 2 NJ 3 NY 4 LA 5 TX 6 FL 7 NV 8 MD 9 NC 10 MS When are we going to finally reject the often preposterous, and immensely harmful, college arms race perpetuated by US News Best College ? |
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Sorry, but you sound like a reject or someone with an inferiority complex. Columbia College is one of the most selective undergraduate student bodies in the world. I was there and know who the students were at the College. The College undergraduates easily rivaled and often surpassed any and certainly most undergraduates I met at Oxford, and in my teaching in the UK after Oxford. You sound quite misinformed. Perhaps, do have a chip on your shoulder for some reason ? |
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“The real ivy league program with the 3.7% admissions this year ( and 5.1-6 % admissions in previous years) you are addressing is Columbia College”
No kidding! But for the umpteenth time, SGS students sit alongside CC students! That’s 1/3 of the student body who are accepted at a 35% rate. It’s not like that these students are separated from each other. I’m not a bitter reject or jealous of Columbia at all. It’s just that I don’t like the false impressions it gives to those that are misinformed. In this case that a large percentage of Columbia students are admitted at a much higher rate. |
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“SGS is a great program for adults and students who took time out from study either after high school or at some later time and decided to return to higher education. Their admissions has nothing to do with Columbia College, and they receive a separate BA which says SGS.”
USNWR ranks Columbia University, not just Columbia College. The SGS students are taking classes with the CC students. They are not separated, except for some core classes offered only to CC students. If 1/3 of your undergraduates are admitted at a 35% clip yearly, then those ultra low acceptance rates are a sham. |
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"When are we going to finally reject the often preposterous, and immensely harmful, college arms race perpetuated by US News Best College ? "
Who's "we"? Go ahead, you first. |
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U. Va. #25. Not bad. 
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It’s the same one REJECT repeating himself or herself, cutting and posting his or her earlier posts. |
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| Columbia should be ranked somewhere between 6-8 |