Columbia vs Duke

admissionsgeek
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:57:33 +0000

conorske - this is my first time seeing that list, i enjoyed it tremendously.

one thing i realized that perhaps is interesting. at columbia you can definitely be a frat head, athlete guy, despite all the rumblings that it is not true. i was as ironic as it all could be. but you can’t at duke or most places be the kind of urban adventurer at the same time, or have both kinds of students coexist simultaneously. so often when folks make the severe distinction between columbia and other schools, they often forget that columbia picks from the same pool of kids that apply to duke, brown and others, and so there is certainly a contingent of folk that desire and provide for themselves the kind of frat centered environment (or frat-like). but then you have an entire body of self-selecting students that want the city and its adventure. best of both worlds for sure.