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I feel like maybe I was a little too diplomatic in my earlier post. GS students regularly get into top professional schools. This includes the law schools at Yale, Chicago, Harvard and Columbia. GS also places people into top PhD programs. It should also be noted that GS sometimes sends people to programs that would seem a tier below Columbia, so not everyone goes onto top programs. One difference here with CC is that students have already taken their time off, (and usually been successful), so they often go straight to graduate/professional school upon graduation.

GS also places a large quantity of students in Wall Street. There are some cases where they are hired into positions far above the entry level seen by most recent grads. Again, this is a result of previous experience. So the point here is that employers and ad coms look very highly upon GS students.

As far as different privileges on campus, there are some, but they are few and far between and are almost never academic in nature. The university culture does place an emphasis on what school you go to (this is relevant for Barnard and SEAS too). The 'spec prints your school and year when they quote you, but no one seems to care after they've been here a while.