Phillibuster69

i friend of mine at Columbia told me that FU kids are shunned...
cause its like
the Asian Mathematics Stereotype etc etc etc...

IZ THIS TRUE?

cause that sucks....haha

(but i guess how u present ur self matter alot too...)

polandspringg

shunned lol.

and the cc students cant get jobs after they graduate.
everyone pokes fun at each other but no one really means it.

anyone who sincerely thinks that all engineers are asians should not be paid attention too.

r3volut1on

I agree, there are obviously some Indians thrown in there in the mix. ^_^

(yes, i know indians are technically asian)

Denzera

i'm probably the whitest person on this board, a recent graduate of SEAS, and have had my share of girlfriends. polandspring is 100% right, everyone makes fun of everyone else but no one means much by it. half the guys who make fun of barnard have barnard girlfriends, half the CC kids who make fun of SEAS lean on their SEAS friend for their math or science homework, half the SEAS kids who roll their eyes at frats show up to their parties, etc. almost nobody actually looks down on any group of people, unless those people attend Princeton =)

Phillibuster69

hahah seems like i applied to the right school!

=D

alais4

Well that's good, because I could just save the money and go to Berkeley...

Do you think there's a perception that changes from admiration to like, indifference when you say "I go to Columbia--the College" instead of "-- the engineering school"? Almost everyone agrees that CC and, say, Brown are comparable--but they wouldn't say about the same about SEAS.

s snack

No one really differentiates between SEAS and CC. If you go to either, both groups fall under the umbrella "Columbia," while Barnard girls go to "Barnard...(sometimes with "it's part of Columbia")" and GS students are referred to as "GS" students by everyone else.

WindowShopping

Not true. I'm in GS and refer to SEAS and CC kids as "nerds" and "brats" respectively (and they, in turn, refer to me as "the stupid, old, long-winded, and undeserving waste of space" -- they have the line down really well; I blame NSOP). If I included Barnard under that umbrella, it would be unfair to every other school in America that's not Columbia, though I have enjoyed a few classes over there.

Skraylor

ditto to windowshopping. within 5 minutes of meeting someone here, chances are one of you will ask "seas or college?"

polandspringg

'Not true. I'm in GS and refer to SEAS and CC kids as "nerds" and "brats" respectively (and they, in turn, refer to me as "the stupid, old, long-winded, and undeserving waste of space" -- they have the line down really well; I blame NSOP). If I included Barnard under that umbrella, it would be unfair to every other school in America that's not Columbia, though I have enjoyed a few classes over there.'

have you ever considered you were being stereotyped as a response to your stereotyping anyone else? If you call non-gs kids nerds and brats do not to be suprised for them to condescend you. Perhaps you are the 1/5000 person who sould not be paid any attention to?

CC and Brown are comparable because they are similar in coursework, engineering is completely different from the work they have at brown. Fu is compared with cornell, mit, ucal etc

pearfire

poland, I think you need to train your perception of humour and irony. Nobody is being really serious in this thread...

columbia2007

CC/SEAS kids live together, and that has a lot to do with the result that any stereotyping between them is a sort of gentle, "sibling rivalry" kind of humor. Neither really looks down on the other.

The situation is arguably different with regard to Barnard/GS.

WindowShopping

it's ok, fellas. polandspringg both a) won at the sat, and b) knows what it means to be from maine. let's cut him some slack. (and on that note, pearfire has bingo).

pearfire

Is he really from maine?

WindowShopping

uh oh. pearfire's bingo is under review.