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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just looking at the Columbia 3/2 program a couple weeks ago with my DC, who is ADHD, but graduating from TJ, probably in the 25-50% with a senior engineering lab.  He's strong in humanities, and I like the idea of him going to a small LAC like Davidson for 3 years, doing the core classes and getting a degree in anything her wants, then finishing at Columbia.  I'l afraid he will get lost at a large school his first couple of years. Plus, if he could get a merit scholarship to an LAC that does the 3/2 program, we could pay for 2 years at Columbia-- but would be hard pressed to pay for 4, even if he could get in.

PP who have BTDT-- good move or bad idea?  It seems win-win given his circumstances.  But I don't know if it works IRL. Advice?[/quote]

I'm the PP who has BTDT (full disclosure - - it was about 30 years ago!, but it doesn't seem that long ago).

Here were the benefits I got out of it:
1) Degree from Columbia SEAS, but only paying Columbia tuition for 2 years (my first three years were at a small state liberal arts college that was an order of magnitude cheaper than Columbia);
2) The "backdoor" was what I needed -- I would not have been accepted to the SEAS out of high school (played too much in high school, but worked butt off in College to improve my situation);
3) There were a large number of 3/2 students in my class and most (maybe all) we were placed in the same housing, thereby making it easy to make friends quickly (a PP on here essentially called the 3/2 housing a "ghetto" since we were, in his/her words, "segregated" from the other SEAS students);
4) Living in NYC ("if you can make it there ..." ); and
5) its Columbia.

Admittedly, as a PP noted previously, it could have been improved  -- specifically, if it was free (or cost less) I would have liked it even more.  But this probably applies to any school.  Also, there may be some who think a Columbia SEAS 3/2 degree is a fraud since 3/2 students do not have to take the required Core Curriculum, which has been described as "the centerpiece of the Columbia undergraduate curriculum and academic community/experience."  In my experience, however, most people could not care less that I didn't do the Core. 
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