<p>columbia has an amazing center for career education (CCE) where you can get internships – and they aren’t all in new york city! we have alumni across the country and connections pretty much everywhere. when i got my internship freshman year, i looked at our database for jobs and internships and there were 6500 listed! (there are only 5700 undergrads at columbia…haha). so there’d be plenty of opportunity to do a dc internship over the summer and live at home. during the year you could easily commute to wall street or a consulting/marketing firm; columbians dont have class on friday so you could work a full day once a week.</p>
<p>basically, columbia will hook you up with some DC internships, but i dont think DC schools will get you quite as far on wall street</p>