Choosing Between Yale and Columbia

millie210
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 03:41:54 +0000

I believe Yale also has gen ed requirements, but they aren’t as intensive as Columbia’s core curriculum. My husband went to Columbia a long time ago. His feeling about the core is that on the one hand, it is an excellent education and he got exposed to things he might not have taken if it was an open curriculum like Brown’s. OTOH, it was limiting because it made it hard to take things he was interested in outside the cc and his major.

I’ve also heard that people tend to be happier at Yale than Columbia.

Perhaps there’s something I don’t understand about likely letters, but it seems to me that once you’re in, it doesn’t matter whether or not you got a likely letter. What perks does it provide going forward?

I’d visit both schools if you can. If that’s not possible, then based on what you’ve said, particularly about the cc, I’d advise you to go with Yale, unless the combination of the Rabi Scholar program and the difference in cost is big enough to outweigh the advantages for you of Yale.