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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is school of general studies columbia?

The School of General Studies is Columbia’s college for nontraditional students who want to earn a degree while attending full- or part-time. Nontraditional students have had a break of one year or more in their educational...

They aren’t considered transfer students by Columbia, but take classes alongside students from the other colleges at Columbia.

In other words, transfer students.  Just another way Columbia plays the USNWR game into an elevated, and overrated ranking.  Columbia is not HYPSM and no amount of manipulation is going to change that fact.

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While this criticizing the university over having non-traditional (a.k.a. non-teenagers) attending is rather weird:

"Notable alumni include Nobel Prize winners Simon Kuznets, Baruj Benacerraf, and Louise Glück, as well as Isaac Asimov, J.D. Salinger, Amelia Earhart, and Princess Firyal of Jordan.[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_School_of_General_Studies

So it's essentially way for highly accomplished adults (and in one case, royalty) to attend the school with different criteria for admissions considering these are adults, not high school kids with no professional background where judging GPAs and SATs is the only way.

This brings up the value of the university in my eyes, if anything. Makes the school more connected to the real world than having a cloistered 4-year college experience. [/quote]

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