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Anonymous wrote:they accepted the exact same number as Cornell? bizarre. can you link that?

I mean accepted the same number of kids off WL as Cornell. 388

Cornell is how many X the size of Columbia?
There was a significant aberration last cycle in WL utilization at Columbia. It may be over now. But it was an aberration and was talked about widely.

Yes, and there were still about 60,000 Columbia applicants who were rejected.

1/4 of Columbia is GS — an easy admit. Almost as easy as their cash cow grad programs. The ship might not be sinking, but it is definitely taking on water: Columbia will soon share its New York brethren’s status as being the bottom feeder of the Ivy League.

Weird how this poster has a Columbia GS obsession. Constantly posts about it. Who the f cares?

NP here. GS students are often older, and they sit side by side with Columbia college students in classes. They also get identical diplomas, watering down the value of the degree.

Weird that you're crashing out over this.

Anonymous wrote:He's a very intellectual classics major kind of kid. Teaching was weak in sciences and some humanities. Kids super preprofessional and faux intellectual. More TAs teaching core curriculum courses than expected. Peers were a bit pretentious. Poor advising and career service support. It's never been a hand holding type of school. He got a good education but don't think he had much fun. And yes, the talk about admin increasing money making masters programs (with low standards) is true. But same at many ivy schools.

Well, the core curriculum and great books program is pretty great. Yes there are grad students teaching those courses but that doesn't mean they are bad teachers. The tenured professors are too busy publishing to pay attention to teaching - as it is at any prestige school.
That said, Columbia has become kind of degree mill-ish with its non-core college programs and that is something the administration has been debating. But this does not affect the traditional undergrad programs too much. The core curriculum has remained staunch for many years.
I would only worry if your child was enrolled in the general studies program or some of their weird masters programs in, I dunno, climate?
The undergrad programs are generally untainted by that certificate / masters money-grab.

Anonymous wrote:Jumbo slice

Heck yeah! Yummy in my tummy!

Jumbo slice

Koronet pizza for the win.

Columbia rules

Anonymous wrote:He's a very intellectual classics major kind of kid. Teaching was weak in sciences and some humanities. Kids super preprofessional and faux intellectual. More TAs teaching core curriculum courses than expected. Peers were a bit pretentious. Poor advising and career service support. It's never been a hand holding type of school. He got a good education but don't think he had much fun. And yes, the talk about admin increasing money making masters programs (with low standards) is true. But same at many ivy schools.

My daughter is there right now. Many of these observations are things I’ve also heard from her. If asked, however, she’d say the good outweighs the bad. It’s a challenging environment on many levels, but she also loves the place.

He's a very intellectual classics major kind of kid. Teaching was weak in sciences and some humanities. Kids super preprofessional and faux intellectual. More TAs teaching core curriculum courses than expected. Peers were a bit pretentious. Poor advising and career service support. It's never been a hand holding type of school. He got a good education but don't think he had much fun. And yes, the talk about admin increasing money making masters programs (with low standards) is true. But same at many ivy schools.

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Anonymous wrote:they accepted the exact same number as Cornell? bizarre. can you link that?

I mean accepted the same number of kids off WL as Cornell. 388

Cornell is how many X the size of Columbia?
There was a significant aberration last cycle in WL utilization at Columbia. It may be over now. But it was an aberration and was talked about widely.

Yes, and there were still about 60,000 Columbia applicants who were rejected.

1/4 of Columbia is GS — an easy admit. Almost as easy as their cash cow grad programs. The ship might not be sinking, but it is definitely taking on water: Columbia will soon share its New York brethren’s status as being the bottom feeder of the Ivy League.

Weird how this poster has a Columbia GS obsession. Constantly posts about it. Who the f cares?

Anonymous wrote:I had a great experience at columbia but ds is a recent grad and his experience was disappointing.

What was disappointing about it?

Lots of talk about increasing class size and housing is already difficult. Yes, they guarantee housing but many options are not on campus...

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Anonymous wrote:There’s also the fact that NYC is about to descend into a homeless and crime-plagued wasteland for the next few years.

Fine. You keep on living your best life watching Fox News in a single wide in Nowheresville, Alabama and I will enjoy NYC. I'm not a fan of the new mayor but I still find it fascinating about how all of the morons in the rest of America are so concerned about our city while their lives are crap and being made worse by our Village People loving loser president.

Leave the Village People out of this.

I had a great experience at columbia but ds is a recent grad and his experience was disappointing.

lol- no. Regular.

Anonymous wrote:DC is there now - first year - amazing place. Professor quality, access and programs available for undergrads in NYC would be hard to match elsewhere. I'm not too concerned about a few waitlist kids on a campus of thousands.

Waitlist admit?