I was browsing through the FISK Guide to colleges, and by coincidence they were comparing Columbia with Yale.

This is what it says:

Quote :

Columbia may soon leave Yale in the dust as the third most selective university in the Ivy League. Applications have doubled in the past 10 years for one simple reason: Manhattan trumps New Haven, Providence, Ithaca, and every other Ivy League city, with the possible exception of Boston. The heart of Columbia is still the core. Though students entering Columbia will, of course, expect the rigorous academic program they’ll encounter at this Ivy League school, there’s no room here in the heart of Manhattan for the bookish nerd. Students must be streetwise, urbane, and together enough to handle one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Columbia lets its students experience life in the Big Apple, but serves as a refuge when it becomes necessary to escape from New York; ideally, Columbians can easily be part of the “real world” while simultaneously immersing themselves in the best academia has to offer. “I am challenged and pushed every day and I love it,” says one student. “I get to enjoy an amazing city and the company of tremendously fascinating and different people.”

i still dont get the big deal about going to schools like yale if you're going to go to professional/grad school

No true point. But if you could get in, then why not?

if you can get in easily then why not

but if you have to study like a mad person than who gives a crap? i would try like that if i was doing engineering or something .. or if you can't find a good "in between" school

Because anyone can get into an easy school. Lol

Finally, some people like to challenge themselves. Nothing bad about that.

end result that matters u noob

I'm set for Yale. And Sayf, I don't even know if I wanna go past undergrad yet so yeah.

@Sayf: ya the end is that for undergrad I graduated from an elite school and someone else didn't

@flame: ok, but that's not relevant to anything at all. I'm not trying to influence you to apply or not apply to Yale, thats your choice. My point though is that Yale is not godly like you may think it is.

Dark Flame99966 wrote:

I'm set for Yale. And Sayf, I don't even know if I wanna go past undergrad yet so yeah.

good luck man

so you gonna do engineering or something?

Sayf: Nah, I won't be an engineer. Last I checked, Yale had one major for Computer Science and Psychology together and i love both topics and for likely than not, I'll be in one of those, so I think one major instead of a double major would be nice.

One acronym: MIT.

I got to start worrying about the SAT next yea(10th grade)!

LOL

@Fang: Nah. I actually will not apply to that. Horrible curves given to engineering and med students: Fact.

Im in love with Columbia.

MIT is harder to get into than any other college in America.

So what? That doesn't mean anything.

Fang wrote:

MIT is harder to get into than any other college in America.

harvard? princeton? yale?

pretty sure its not as selective as those 3

Columbia is the most selective one from the Ivy league.

im beginning to think u dont know anything ahmed

Do you have stats?

If you compare selectivity by acceptance rates then Columbia is like Princeton:

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings

When I was speaking of selectivity however I was referring to the number of applicants that apply to every Uni.

And guess what I just read that Columbia College's acceptance rate is 7% which makes it equal to Yale's. Its the Columbia's engineering school that has an acceptance rate of 13% and therefore pushes the acceptance rate up a bit. I applied to Columbia College.

i still see harvard and yale ahead

yeha but screw yale it has a stupid name i rather go to columbia lol

NYC>>>>All of CT

Fact.

LMAO

It should be "Onry 99% in maths test"