| I don't think I could have put that better myself, although, when it comes right down to it, I believe that "Columbia is the BEST urban university in the world" would still hold true if the word "urban" was excised.
There's just something about it, to me. Although publicly this is probably not the case, to me Harvard, MIT, Yale, and all those others that seem to be held in such higher regard pale in comparison to Columbia (although I still sort of have thing for Yale and a few other really nice places, Columbia just does it all for me). I've done PLENTY of research on it and I've NEVER found a single thing I didn't like about Columbia, whatsoever. There's the core curriculum, which would, when paired with my interest in medicine and science, make for an extremely wonderful courseload. Every person I know who is attending Columbia (or has attended) is very interesting and is sure to somehow go far in life (or already has). Due to its location and its simple notoriety and endowments, along with its amazing faculty members and facilities, opportunities abound at Columbia. There's so much more. Out of the Ivies, Columbia seems to me the only one that really offers the glamour, wonder, and intellectual greatness that many seem to really associate with being a student at an Ivy.
As far as huskem55 said, Columbia definitely wouldn't be the same wonderful Columbia without being in New York City, but using that as a big reason to go is sort of antiquated, from what I hear, unless you do well in incorporating it with everything else the university can offer you.
If only I were actually there at the moment! (haha) Here's hoping for transfer . . . |