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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s cute that Columbia, which is overwhelmingly a graduate/professional university, has ascended to the near top at USNWR.  It is a superlative school for sure, but definitely has benefited by playing into the criteria used by that ranking system. [/quote]

No idea what this means since everyone knows that Columbia has a very strong undergraduate presence [/quote]

A very strong undergraduate presence with 1/3 of its undergraduates not matriculated as 18 year olds out of high school?   Columbia’s stats are skewed by ignoring a huge minority of students who came through the back door.  Those same students in the College of General Studies take classes alongside Columbia College students, so it’s not like they have an entirely separate curriculum.   I highly doubt than any other of the top ten undergraduate schools have that high a percentage of alternative students.  [/quote]

No, it has not diminished the Columbia brand name in the slightest. It does make Columbia a very respectable institution nonetheless for accepting all those veterans, as PP suggested. I looked up the stats and 21% of GS are actually veterans, not your random high-school dropouts. And GS students are admitted through a rigorous selection process like regular college students, unlike Harvard Extension School.[/quote]

And yet there are posters on this thread who believe that veterans who fought for our country don’t deserve to receive an Ivy League education because they’re not the pristine WASP prep school 18 year old. I’m lost for words...[/quote]

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