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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Columbia is a peer school to Emory et al. Is it a "top Ivy?" Of course not, and there's nothing wrong with that. [/quote]

There’s HYP.

There’s Columbia and Penn.

And then there’s Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell.

Emory is nowhere near any of those schools.  It can hang out with Vanderbilt and Washington U on a good day.  [/quote]

Brown = Cornell > Dartmouth = Penn > Vanderbilt = Columbia = WashU

Columbia dropping friend, read the news[/quote]

This is funny.[/quote]

Not really. The Columbia protesters have gold-plated every suspicion skeptics have had about Ivies. For decades, people have been suggesting that Ivies produce what amounts to human veal: overly protected, overly nurtured, impractical, weak.

But it was easy for condescending people to laugh off such accusations….UNTIL the protests.

How can anyone forget that protester demanding that Columbia makes sure that the students occupying Hamilton Hall still have access to their meal-plan food???? With her glassy eyed comrade next to her nodding in agreement?? [/quote]

That demand protestor gold plated people’s suspicions about Columbia: that its students are nowhere near T10 material. [/quote]

Many of the students there were from Barnard. [/quote]

There are parents on this board who went to Barnard. Not appreciated.[/quote]

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