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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Columbia values a combination of brilliant and social.  The place is intentionally edgy and someone who wants a more intimate college environment could be crushed.  At Columbia, a solid 75+% of the total course load you take to graduate is required courses or your major (the core required courses stretch into junior year - the most extensive of any traditional liberal arts curriculum in the US).  Columbia, university-wide, is well over 2/3 graduate and professional students.  Columbia values GPA.  The #1 subway line stops in the center of the Columbia/Barnard footprint.  Columbia is in the north/south geographic center of a Manhattan, and the City is running 24x7 literally one footstep outside of most of the dorm footprints.   Columbia does not care where you come from (much), and if you are flat on your back they will cover all your costs and pay you a stipend as long as you are in good standing.  Columbia is big and busy and hurried and everyone you deal with will learn your name, and you should learn their’s.

You can do almost anything (probably pretty well) and figure out almost anyone if you go to Columbia.  [/quote]
Actually, I was surprised by how closed off, separate, and quiet Columbia felt once behind the gates. I don't think it's the "north/south geographic center" of Manhattan; it's Morningside Heights, north of Central Park, closer to Harlem and upper Manhattan. True that it's very accessible.[/quote]

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