Columbia considers expanding undergraduate enrollment by up to 20 percent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not good. Columbia has not had a couple of good years. Steer away.

Are you steering competition away from your DC?

Just apply to Columbia GS. They take kids right out of high school and it is the same degree. Greater than 40% acceptance rate.

Your answer certifies you as untrustworthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not good. Columbia has not had a couple of good years. Steer away.

Are you steering competition away from your DC?

Just apply to Columbia GS. They take kids right out of high school and it is the same degree. Greater than 40% acceptance rate.

Your answer certifies you as untrustworthy.

NP. I’ve seen this happen a couple times. Two kids who were not even close to Columbia College standards are now “at Columbia”. They take Columbia classes and their degree will just say Columbia. It won’t indicate GS.

[Anonymous]

The noise about the Israel protests will pass with time. And Columbia is the Ivy school in NYC so it will always be appealing.

But I have no idea how Columbia is going to expand their undergrad by 20 percent given their space constraints. Sounds like a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Columbia is like a diploma mill these days. Unfortunate.

An all-Asian diploma mill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not good. Columbia has not had a couple of good years. Steer away.

Are you steering competition away from your DC?

Just apply to Columbia GS. They take kids right out of high school and it is the same degree. Greater than 40% acceptance rate.

Your answer certifies you as untrustworthy.

NP. I’ve seen this happen a couple times. Two kids who were not even close to Columbia College standards are now “at Columbia”. They take Columbia classes and their degree will just say Columbia. It won’t indicate GS.

This is true. I know a former adult film actress who went there. There are many troubled kids there (well not kids, more like mid-20s). It's not uncommon to end up there after traditional college doesn't work out, mental breakdown, etc. But many military vets too.

The diploma/trasncript does indicate Gen Studies however. You are not going to fool Goldman Sachs into thinking you are actually a Columbia College grad.

[Anonymous]

Have any of you guys read the full article?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbia is like a diploma mill these days. Unfortunate.

An all-Asian diploma mill

Send your child to a true (iykyk) school like Notre Dame or Washington & Lee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not good. Columbia has not had a couple of good years. Steer away.

Are you steering competition away from your DC?

Just apply to Columbia GS. They take kids right out of high school and it is the same degree. Greater than 40% acceptance rate.

Your answer certifies you as untrustworthy.

NP. I’ve seen this happen a couple times. Two kids who were not even close to Columbia College standards are now “at Columbia”. They take Columbia classes and their degree will just say Columbia. It won’t indicate GS.

This is true. I know a former adult film actress who went there. There are many troubled kids there (well not kids, more like mid-20s). It's not uncommon to end up there after traditional college doesn't work out, mental breakdown, etc. But many military vets too.

The diploma/trasncript does indicate Gen Studies however. You are not going to fool Goldman Sachs into thinking you are actually a Columbia College grad.

I know someone from General Studies who went to front office at Goldman. The diploma does not say General studies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not good. Columbia has not had a couple of good years. Steer away.

Are you steering competition away from your DC?

Just apply to Columbia GS. They take kids right out of high school and it is the same degree. Greater than 40% acceptance rate.

Your answer certifies you as untrustworthy.

Columbia General Studies is for returning (older) or nontraditional studients who have been out a minimum of a yea.r https://www.gs.columbia.edu/content/eligibility-undergraduate

[Anonymous]

What a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe Columbia already expanded 15-20% just this last cycle. Now again?

They want to beat Penn and Cornell for the largest ivy?

Penn at about 3000 freshmen is huuuuge and makes a mockery of IVY label.
Cornell worse at about 5000 freshmen!!!!
Add Columbia and pretty soon they will look like state flagships…

[Anonymous]

Penn has more students but they also have 4 distinct undergrad schools: the college, nursing, engineering, and wharton (business).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not good. Columbia has not had a couple of good years. Steer away.

Are you steering competition away from your DC?

Just apply to Columbia GS. They take kids right out of high school and it is the same degree. Greater than 40% acceptance rate.

Your answer certifies you as untrustworthy.

NP. I’ve seen this happen a couple times. Two kids who were not even close to Columbia College standards are now “at Columbia”. They take Columbia classes and their degree will just say Columbia. It won’t indicate GS.

This is true. I know a former adult film actress who went there. There are many troubled kids there (well not kids, more like mid-20s). It's not uncommon to end up there after traditional college doesn't work out, mental breakdown, etc. But many military vets too.


The diploma/trasncript does indicate Gen Studies however. You are not going to fool Goldman Sachs into thinking you are actually a Columbia College grad.

Correct, there is a definitely a difference and it is not hidden.

[Anonymous]

Despite its location Columbia never made it to the big leagues. Chronic mismanagement. In recent years it went from being the most Jewish Ivy (fighting with Penn for that title) to the regional center of the intafadah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Columbia is like a diploma mill these days. Unfortunate.

An all-Asian diploma mill

There is not a big enough eye roll. A diploma mill with a 4% admissions rate?

I have no dog in this fight. I went to a different college and my kids are at different colleges. But Bill Ackman and you Trumpy followers are ridiculous. Columbia may be having a bad minute within its own history but nothing else. It will always be extremely sought after.