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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Columbia for grad school. I would not recommend it for undergrad except under very unique circumstances [/quote]

Why so? I have a junior who is too in love with Columbia. I want to reduce the love a bit (gently) given how hard it is to get in.[/quote]

Columbia is such a mess. I feel like it looks better the further you are away from it (like a butterfly).

-Parent of 2018 grad [/quote]

Everybody looks at her small number of undergraduates at Columbia and forget that it is overwhelmingly filled with graduate students. [/quote]

Original PP here. My philosophy is you want to go to a college where the undergrad experience is one of the university president's top five priorities. I just don't think that is true at Columbia. Plus I think it takes a special kind of kid to really love their core curriculum. That and when I was in grad school there I overheard to undergrads talking about some investment bankers hitting on them at a bar. I feel like you have the rest of your 20s to experience that. Spend your college years somewhere where you're hanging out w other college students.[/quote]

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