<p>a) list includes general studies, which is highly preprofessionally oriented because of the need to make it a solid ROI for the student. so don’t be silly and read too much into this data when it is skewed. or when you don’t understand why it would be skewed.</p>
<p>b) columbia probably has more folks than other ivies that enter into education, non-profit and in general social justice work - i will offer anecdotally. would you consider this pre-professional? this is a result of columbia’s rather beautiful diversity in which you can find the hardcore banker and activist basically living next to each other. i mean certainly there are other activisty types elsewhere, but among my friends many have decided to go into teaching (for 3 years columbia out TFA’d every other Ivy and was the number one center in the country) or to unglorious positions in small towns, big cities and foreign countries. every school has the kind of student, my sense is that columbia has a lot of them (particularly in the Ivy or Ivy-like category).</p>
<p>c) as someone in a PhD program, i can count amongst my set of friends a lot of folks in other programs ranging from the sciences to the humanities. there are quite a lot of us out there. i’d say i know as many folks in phd programs as friends who actually went to finance and stayed in it (which now numbers a pitiful few).</p>
<p>d) just because you hate life, doesn’t mean you have to bore us.</p>