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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the kid is an energetic, mature, self-starter, Columbia.  Columbia doesn't "make" the adult, but it's the right school if the applicant is already an adult.  
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SO true.  Yale is great for kids who aren't ready for the big leagues and want to stay in the cocoon a bit longer.  Columbia offers so, so much more and is far more serious academically.[/quote]

Yes, SO true. Here is a good experiment: ask the Columbia kids whether or not a single one of them got accepted by Yale and actually had this choice to make. Then ask the Yale kids. I can guess which kids actually made the choice, and they won't be the Columbia ones....[/quote]

Insecure?  
New Haven vs NYC?
Core curriculum taught by profs vs grad student teachers?
Faux oxbridge?
Pretentious clubs?
Sorry, but Yale is certainly a great school and very prestigious and I'd very proud to have my DCs go there, but you sound silly when you postulate that every kid who gets into both would choose Yale.  As pp noted, Columbia is hands-down more rigorous and in NYC to boot - for many that's the clincher.[/quote]

Insecure? What are you prattling on about? I didn't go to Yale, although you can be damn sure I would have chosen Yale over Columbia back in the day when I was choosing colleges. For the record, I didn't get into Yale, but did get into Columbia, and didn't attend the latter. So I have nothing personal involved here. All i have is common sense. If you care, and want to see real head-to-head stats, you can look at Parchment, which is a website that looks at this very issue: when students are accepted at several peer institutions, which one do they attend? Unsurprisingly, Yale is much higher on this lost than Columbia, which suggests - contrary to your "faux oxbridge" sneering, that I am correct, and kids overwhelmingly select Yale when given the option. Columbia is a great school, but one you can turn down. I think the same can't be said of Yale.[/quote]

And Brigham Young is better than Johns Hopkins according to the same site.[/quote]

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