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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t expect much from the Columbia advisors. They are pretty lame and don’t really care about doing their job. In general, the administration is pretty bad. No, they will not care about your child and will be annoyed at your emails and phone calls. Very different from a slac experience. I still recommend going there though. It can be a great experience and in normal years, you don’t have to deal with administrators much. Some of the dorms are pretty crappy. The gym is old and awful, food is meh but campus is lovely and you have all of NYC to explore. No school spirit. An interesting mix of kids. Go for it and good luck. Your kid will need to make an effort to make friends but that is a good skill in life.[/quote]

When were you at Columbia ? I had a blast, lived in great dorms and even lived in Herman Wouk's dorm room which was shaped like a submarine. He wrote about this dorm room on the first page and the first sentence in his Caine Mutiny.

Columbia's food was rated number 2 of all colleges a few years ago, and I think number 1 also. there is plenty of great food, including in the dining hall with buffets and at JJ's where you can eat in your pajamas if you live nearby.
The classes are mostly small, over 80% are 20 students or less in a class. The core courses are great training and will last a lifetime.

The college administration was always helpful, certainly to me. I  was from Massachusetts, and never had anything but nice people in Hamilton Hall, the main college building for the College deans, etc.

The students were tops and many loved the intellectual and cultural stimulation. The campus is a Mackim, mead and White gem of buildings, the largest collection of these famed architect's buildings anywhere in the world. I had million-dollar views of campus each year from my dorm windows. To this day, I feel very very lucky to have been a student at Columbia. [/quote]

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