Columbia or UPENN ?

confidentialcoll
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:09:57 +0000

“4) Hmmm—where are you numbers from???
Undergrad - Penn is ~10,000 kids, Columbia is ~7000
Total - Penn is 21,000 students, Columbia is 23,000”

sorry miscalc, 1.5 times the size, i guess that makes less of a difference

5) pulling in more research dollars has nothing to do with giving undergrads research opps. Columbia has a greater proportion of students doing research work on campus. Penn having a center for undergrad research does not mean it gives students more opportunities. I don’t know of a single kid at columbia who wanted research and couldn’t find it. Perhaps this is the same at penn, but from what I’ve been told a smaller % of undergrads at penn get involved in the first place.

Perhaps you lose an all encompassing social scene with huge parties at columbia, but intimacy is purely a function of size and proximity to peers. ALL columbia freshman live within 150 meters of one another.