Columbia: 22,249 applicants

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I think questions like these are why many employers and graduate schools prefer graduates from LACs like Swarthmore, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan.

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<p>Huh? I can’t say that I’ve heard of Bowdoin. Which “many” employers and grad schools prefer its students over Columbia’s students?</p>

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Is a seven billion dollar endowment something to complain about?

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<p>It’s not enough to do all the things Columbia could do to make itself even better – like offer better financial aid to lower middle-class kids. Columbia has many grand plans, and needs to constantly raise money to make them a success.</p>

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I think that one thing Columbia has to do is make even more of its presence in New York. That constitutes a “shadow endowment” that the other schools cannot remotely match.

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<p>How exactly does this work? If CU needs money for the Manhattanville campus, can they take a line of credit and use their existence in NYC as collateral? Sounds like Enron accounting.</p>