Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 10:04     Subject: Re:Columbia??

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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.


Why?


NYC mayor-elect Mamdani, who will soon take office, plans to decimate the NYPD, hobble the few police who still remain after he takes office, and abolish jails and prisons.

Just watch; NYC will soon be a gangster’s paradise.


This is slippery-slope fear-mongering. No one is proposing to abolish prisons or turn NYC into a crime free-for-all, and a mayor doesn’t have unchecked power anyway.

Get a life.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 08:34     Subject: Re:Columbia??

Anonymous wrote:
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.


Why?
The Red Scare is alive and well, apparently.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 01:56     Subject: Columbia??

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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.



The diplomas are not identical, if you know how to read. Employers know the difference between a Columbia College or Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science degree and a degree from Columbia General Studies. Just the way they know the difference between a Harvard College degree and a degree from the Harvard Extension School.


The only undergrad degree Harvard’s Extension School issues is an ALB in Extension Studies. Is that the degree Columbia’s School of General Studies issues? Or does Columbia’s SGS issue BAs and BSs in the same majors as Columbia College?

And you’re not disputing that the GS students sit in the same classes as other undergrads.

The Harvard extension whataboutism has to stop: they do not take classes with real Harvard students, except in unusual circumstances in an occasional summer course. All Columbia GS students take all classes with real Columbia students, except for the common core. All classes: they are 25% of the students. Columbia should have merged them long ago and did not for 2 reasons: 1) GS is not need blind, and 2) they could not hide the lower academic standard of 25% of students so easily without Columbia’s elite status coming into question. U.S. News knows this; that is why it said it wanted merged data with GS.

This is the real reason Columbia withdrew from U.S.News rankings….


Also, Harvard Extension School students are barred from using the Harvard College’s career services office and recruiting processes. Why hasn’t Columnia taken the same step?

Of course, that would end the Columbia General Studies cash grab.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 01:55     Subject: Columbia??

Anonymous wrote:
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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.



The diplomas are not identical, if you know how to read. Employers know the difference between a Columbia College or Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science degree and a degree from Columbia General Studies. Just the way they know the difference between a Harvard College degree and a degree from the Harvard Extension School.


Maybe Goldman Sachs knows the difference but 99% of employers in America do not and don't care
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2025 01:23     Subject: Re:Columbia??

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.


Because the new city is going to offer some free buses and a rent freeze? What a nightmare. Get out while you can.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 23:10     Subject: Columbia??

Anonymous wrote:
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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.



The diplomas are not identical, if you know how to read. Employers know the difference between a Columbia College or Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science degree and a degree from Columbia General Studies. Just the way they know the difference between a Harvard College degree and a degree from the Harvard Extension School.


The only undergrad degree Harvard’s Extension School issues is an ALB in Extension Studies. Is that the degree Columbia’s School of General Studies issues? Or does Columbia’s SGS issue BAs and BSs in the same majors as Columbia College?

And you’re not disputing that the GS students sit in the same classes as other undergrads.

The Harvard extension whataboutism has to stop: they do not take classes with real Harvard students, except in unusual circumstances in an occasional summer course. All Columbia GS students take all classes with real Columbia students, except for the common core. All classes: they are 25% of the students. Columbia should have merged them long ago and did not for 2 reasons: 1) GS is not need blind, and 2) they could not hide the lower academic standard of 25% of students so easily without Columbia’s elite status coming into question. U.S. News knows this; that is why it said it wanted merged data with GS.

This is the real reason Columbia withdrew from U.S.News rankings….
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 20:39     Subject: Columbia??

Columbia is still test optional which fuels more applications. Most other ivy schools have returned to test required.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 20:31     Subject: Columbia??

Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
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.



The diplomas are not identical, if you know how to read. Employers know the difference between a Columbia College or Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science degree and a degree from Columbia General Studies. Just the way they know the difference between a Harvard College degree and a degree from the Harvard Extension School.


The only undergrad degree Harvard’s Extension School issues is an ALB in Extension Studies. Is that the degree Columbia’s School of General Studies issues? Or does Columbia’s SGS issue BAs and BSs in the same majors as Columbia College?

And you’re not disputing that the GS students sit in the same classes as other undergrads.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 13:21     Subject: Columbia??

Anonymous wrote:
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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.



The diplomas are not identical, if you know how to read. Employers know the difference between a Columbia College or Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science degree and a degree from Columbia General Studies. Just the way they know the difference between a Harvard College degree and a degree from the Harvard Extension School.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 13:18     Subject: Columbia??

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how nobody is talking about Columbia this cycle. Not sure if fewer applied or if people just aren’t posting.


How do you define "nobody" OP? The people who live on your street? Columbia had 60K applicants to the class of 2029. Perhaps your world is just a little narrow, or you never took a statistics class to realize that you yourself are not a statistically significant sample.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 13:11     Subject: Re:Columbia??

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.


Why?
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 07:54     Subject: Columbia??

GS students don't take the core at all
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 07:54     Subject: Columbia??

No they don't.
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 07:52     Subject: Re:Columbia??

Anonymous wrote:No they don't


Oh yes they did!
Anonymous
Post 12/12/2025 07:52     Subject: Re:Columbia??

No they don't