columbiafan

@isabella you'll never go wrong with the classics:

Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid
Medea
Oedipus
Oresteia
Metamorphoses

also Inferno from the Divine Comedy and Don Quixote.

http://www.college.columbia.edu/core...syllabus_0.pdf

isabella67

pwoods & columbiafan -- thanks for the reading lists!

coolbeans2013

Hi I have a question about the supplement. For the part about "Please tell us what you found meaningful about one of the above-mentioned books, publications or cultural events" would it be okay if I wrote about a TV show or would they not take me seriously?

fish0315

Would anyone please look over my app essays for me please? Thanks

bartonsprings

Would it be okay to PM you some essay ideas and/or stat questions?

FlossBoss

I am a junior at UAlbany with a 4.0 & I want to apply to the dual MBA/JD program at Columbia. My question is what kind of work experience will I need? I know MBA programs typically want 3-5 years work experience but it is not as important for law school. (I do have a steady internship with the NY Gaming Association.) Any information that will help my chances of getting in is much appreciated. If there is anyone currently doing the MBA/JD program, is it humanly possible to do it in 3 years?!?

Thank you!!!

cherryli2015

First of all, I want to thank you guys for providing help. My daughter is a high school sophomore and Columbia University is her dream school. She is good at writing and music. She will fly to NY for a performance on Oct 20th. She wants to take this opportunity to visit Columbia University.

According to her schedule, she can only visit on 21th which is Sunday. Visitor Center closes on Sunday, so she can only do a self-visit. She cannot drive. Do you guys have any suggestion? Like where should she go to visit? Does she have any opportunity to meet people? Can she go inside some buildings? etc.

Thanks for any response.

souptpt

Hi there! Can you tell me the differences between Columbia University, Columbia College and Columbia University School of General Studies?ThankS!

pwoods

Sure. Columbia University is the overall university: Columbia University in the City of New York

Within Columbia University, there are a bunch of grad schools, 3 undergraduate colleges, and 1 affiliated women's undergraduate college. The undergrad colleges are Columbia College (CC), the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), General Studies (GS), and Barnard College (BC).

CC is a liberal arts school for students who are either coming straight out of high school or have only taken one year off between high school and college. GS is for "non-traditional students," i.e. those who have taken a break of 2 or more years from their education. Lots of soldiers, professional dancers, and the like end up in GS since they put their education on hold while they went into the service or career.

If you're in high school when you apply to Columbia, apply to CC.

If you're not in high school when you apply to Columbia, apply to GS.

If you're in high school when you apply and you want to study engineering, apply to SEAS.

And if you're in high school when you apply, you're a woman, and you want to go to an all-women's college, apply to Barnard.

Trial1

If a freshman has to plan the summer vacation and book tickets in advance - on which date can it be done? May 22 is the commencement - assume it is only relevant for seniors and not freshmen - is this correct?

In the academic calendar - can someone explain what exactly is "commencement" as far as freshmen/rising sophomores are concerned?

Columbia University Registrar

juillet

Commencement means nothing to freshman - it's for graduating students across the university. If your freshman lives in housing, their move-out day is before Commencement anyway - I can't remember exactly when it is, but I do believe it's two Saturdays before Commencement (as in the Saturday immediately following finals, which end on Friday).

Booking tickets should be done after the student's last final exam. Wait for the final exam schedule to be published. It's available on SSOL pretty early into the semester - the fall one should be there already. If you are talking about the spring, the safest bet is late Friday or Saturday, but your student may be done with finals earlier than that depending on the schedule. But no, you don't have to worry about commencement.

vandyeyes

my son is coming for a visit in the near future...he is flying into Newark on a Friday morning....arrival time is supposed to be 9am....will it be possible to make the 10am information session? He will only have carryon luggage?

aanderson67

Vandy. This may be a problem depending on where he is coming from and the airline. If you can avoid checked bags do it. Flights to EWR are often very delayed and baggage is VERY slow for United I can't speak to the other airlines.

Trial1

A very useful thread indeed!

1) Do students in the dorms normally have a "land line phone connection"? What is the procedure for the students to have this phone connection set up? Typically, what do the present students do - have a land line in their dorm or just have the mobile phone or both?

2) How many students are there normally in a core class? what is the student faculty ratio?

neiro6

They just got rid of the ROLM phones in the dorm rooms. I don't know if you can request one. Most people just have cell phones.

My LitHum class has about 22 students and my Frontiers seminar is about 19.