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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“SGS is a great program for adults and students who took time out from study either after high school or at some later time and decided to return to higher education. Their admissions has nothing to do with Columbia College, and they receive a separate BA which says SGS.”

USNWR ranks Columbia University, not just Columbia College. The SGS students are taking classes with the CC students.  They are not separated, except for some core classes offered only to CC students. If 1/3 of your undergraduates are admitted at a 35% clip yearly,  then those ultra low acceptance rates are a sham. [/quote

USNWR and everyone except you knows full well USNWR means Columbia College. Completely separate admissions and a completely separate institution from SGS.   Further, Columbia College and SGS give completely different BA degrees and completely different diplomas. . She College degree is in Latin and says Columbia College.   SGS says SGS on the diploma.

You sound bitter and quite frankly disturbed.

it is a great honor to Columbia and a service to the United States that Columbia has a separate  School of General Studies (SGs) program.  SGS has its own faculty and its own courses.  Maybe sometimes there are SGS students in the Columbia College classes, but usually not that often or so many because SGS has its own faculty.
In any event, the College students are brilliant and worked very hard to earn an acceptance. as smart as any students I encountered anywhere.

Please try to get some therapy, please. something inside you is not screwed on correctly. sorry to say, but your comments are non-sequiturs and not normal behavior.  No offense, but you are being a sham to your inner-self. [/quote o

No offense?  Please   I made a valid comment, that you finally addressed in your last statement.  If you can show me of any other elite university in this country that have 1/3 of its undergraduate students not reported as incoming freshman, I’d like to see it. Furthermore, your statements are incorrect according to the Columbia University website.   Because someone questions the authenticity of Columbia’s reporting of its undergraduate students, doesn’t mean their is something mentally wrong with them. As for the utopian statement about the SGS as if it’s a free service provided by the school to better our country, I have a bridge over the East River that I’d like to sell to you.

https://gs.columbia.edu/content/general-studies-gs-undergraduates

“GS students take the same classes with the same professors as all Columbia undergraduates. Undergraduate courses are taught by members of the Columbia University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.”

So whom I’m I going to believe?  Columbia or some pseudo-psychologist?

https://bulletin.columbia.edu/general-studies/archived-bulletins/2016-2017-general-studies.pdf

“What makes GS unique among colleges of its type is that GS students are fully integrated into the Columbia undergraduate curriculum.”

And therein lies my problem with its very lofty ranking. I think that it’s terrific what Columbia has been doing for decades. I just feel that USNWR rewards the school too much for its reportedly low admittance rate. It is an inaccurate reflection of the overall student body and is a disservice to those applicants who feel that Columbia is truly as selective as other ultra-elite private schools.  This whole thread is about the USNWR rankings, nothing more. [/quote]

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