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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended, also went to Columbia for grad school.

It’s everything DCUM hates: collaboration not competition, very little name recognition in corporate America, if your child is the right fit they will thrive, nobody goes to IB afterwards. Lots of counterculture and alternative kids. No “prestige”.

Your child must be VERY VERY self-directed to succeed. Actual dumb hippies crash out fast, you need to do real work. Nobody will hold your hand. You do not get a gold star or an A at the end, you must create your own meaning because you get narrative detailed evaluations for all work.

If your idea of rigor is memorize the book for the test and actually learn nothing, it’s not for you. You can’t succeed by grinding and being a good copycat, you must actually deliver original work and it will be judged fairly. It’s grad school style program for undergrad. It prepared me extremely well for professional degree in grad school.

Five College cooperation is easy and very useful, for most of my work I used the MHC and Amherst libraries because they had the materials I needed. Cross registration is a breeze, take whatever you want any time you want.

The school was in financial crisis a few years ago, but has stabilized.

It is also very very expensive!
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The Columbia grad student is one of two people who actually has useful things to say.

It's a school for a certain type of student. I went to a weird alternative high school and so several of our grads went to Hampshire. All are successful by typical metrics now, but they all had nontraditional career paths.

I visited my friend while she was attending and the facilities do, indeed, leave much to be desired. [/quote]

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