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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid at Columbia. Incredibly driven and hardworking + intense kid, was born that way. My other kids are more laid back. He got in on his own merit + luck. No legacy, sports or first gen\minority status. I sometimes wonder if Ivys are worth it. Workload at Columbia is so overwhelming. He is doing fine and likes it but also seems incredibly stressed out. I wish he could have more fun. Life is short. There is a psychological cost to attending top schools that people seem to overlook. HS was incredibly stressful for him too because he had such self-imposed high standards for himself. I keep reminding him that we don’t care about his grades, just that he is happy and healthy.[/quote]

Hello : I went to Columbia years ago. Your kid sounds like me from decades back driven, intellectually curious, optimistic and seizing every opportunity with both hands to develop myself and to share with others. Even though I graduated from the College years ago,  hardly a day goes by when I am not immensely grateful to my education and teachers at Columbia, to the core courses,  the ability to take apart books and articles with analytical thinking and then to reconstruct these texts; and the exceptional opportunities NYC offered to supplement my college education.  Going to Columbia was one of the greatest blessings in my life and furthered my skills to think through things carefully in my own head while enjoying the process. When one breaks down the cost against 40 plus years of benefits from the training applied in the workforce and maybe 60 plus years for personal derived satisfaction from the training, the financial costs start to look like a bargain.  Even at today's tuition costs, given the opportunity, i would have fought tooth and nail to try to study there, and console myself that the tuition when divided by 60 years into the future is not so high.

May your child squeeze every wonderful opportunity during his/her college years campus, in Morningside heights and with friends when visiting special places in NYC, all the more reason because once graduation happens, college is gone and you just have the training, friendships and memories to mine for the rest of one's life.[/quote]

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