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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a close call.  I grew up in Houston.  Rice is great but doesn't have the international reach of Columbia.  Amherst is a wonderful SLAC but Columbia is Ivy.  My kid transferred from a top 5ish slac to a top 5 Ivy.  Ivy any day, all day.  Great outcomes and congrats.  [/quote]

Maybe but Columbia is not a top 5 Ivy. [/quote]

It pretty much is.  At my office, for recruitment, we don’t differentiate between Columbia and the other top ivies. And the kids are no different. Cannot tell them apart [/quote]

Keep trying. Whether you like it or not, Columbia has gone down in the prestige scale in the recent years. And STEM recruiters would definitely not differentiate between (if not prefer because of better attitudes) a Rice graduate than Columbia.[/quote]

I'm just curious what brings you so much hate on Columbia.[/quote]

no hate on Columbia. Infact if econ and finance, definitely choose Columbia over Rice. But the distinction or the superiority you claim  in all scenarios of Columbia over Rice is no longer accurate. The lines have been blurred esp. with regards to STEM majors and student quality of life esp. in undergrad. [/quote]

STEM/ engineering students at Columbia are recruited by silicon valley AND Wall Street. [/quote]

So are students from Rice and CMU. Again, all I am saying is you can no longer say Columbia is definitely superior to Rice. Not always. People might be very surprised if a student chooses Rice over Harvard or Princeton. But no one is stunned if today a kid chooses Rice over Columbia. [/quote]

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