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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Yale, so I don't have direct experience with either one, but I have friends who went to both and I visited both schools when I was in college.

First, they have very different campus feels so which does he prefer? I didn't really like Columbia at all. It didn't have a college feel. The students seemed to go to clubs in the city instead of doing college or campus activities. If he wants a NYC experience, then he would love it, I wanted a college experience so it wasn't for me.

Harvard is still urban but there are bars right near the school that are Harvard hangouts so it seemed more collegy. The Harvard campus is beautiful and Cambridge is very nice.

Beyond that, you can't beat the name recognition of Harvard, so edge to Harvard. I think I'd need a pretty good reason to pick Columbia over Harvard. I got into a lower ranked Ivy too and didn't pick it over Yale.

My friends who went there are smart and interesting people. I'm sure the same is true of Columbia.

Congratulations on this amazing choice! [/quote]

Yuck.  Yale really didn't teach you to do anything more than look at everything through a Yale lens? Columbia has an urban campus that takes up several blocks in Morningside Heights.  There are plenty of clubs and campus activities but they are supplemented by the experience of living in New York City, which you don't get at Harvard.

Granted, it's not as grand as Yale, but it has its own "college feel."  I can only imagine the response of a Yale graduate if someone from Dartmouth or Princeton opined that Yale wasn't sufficiently "collegy" (?) because it's in a run-down mid-size city rather than in a more bucolic setting. [/quote]

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