<p>Oren8er, it might help if you told us what you were looking for in a college and why Columbia is your top choice. In my son’s case, he just felt very comfortable every time he visited Columbia - liked the students he met and the classes he sat in on and felt it was very intellectually vibrant. In addition, they had a particularly good program in his main area of interest, and he was also involved in some outside activities in New York that he wanted to continue to pursue and believed he would not be able to pursue them as effectively anywhere else (e.g., Cambridge/Boston). He has continued to pursue those activities and I think he was right that he needed to be in New York to do so. He’s loving Columbia and is certain it was the right choice for him. It doesn’t mean it would necessarily have been the right choice for someone else.</p>