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My husband has a graduate degree from Columbia. No, we would not pay those prices for undergrad. Would not be worth it.

Columbia might be a ticket-puncher in the Northeast, but out of the area, like we are now, it's just, "nice."[/quote]
Absolutely. I thought Columbia was like Pepperdine. California here. We don't care about any big east names here, though. [/quote]

[b]people all over the world have heard about Columbia[/b]. Pepperdine not is much. if you don't have at least a feel for a difference you are an idiot.[/quote]

Sorry, no. In capital cities of Europe and Asia (where I lived until 21 and where my parents and cousins still live), all we hear about is Harvard. 
Perhaps, if one is interested and has American friends, Princeton, Yale, MIT. I never, ever heard about Columbia, and I went to a prestigious international high school in Europe with a significant number of Americans.
It's just like Americans only knowing about one or two universities per country (Oxford & Cambridge, La Sorbonne, Tokyo University, if that). I went to the best science university in my home country, and do you guys know it? Of course not.

It's funny how nationals of EVERY country always assume their institutions are so much more famous than they really are :-)
I was watching the news from another country a few days ago, and they literally said that their major film festival was the most famous in the world. Not.
Living as an international person really gives you some perspective.
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