Columbia vs. Princeton

confidentialcoll
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:47:59 +0000

suburban area very close to the city



nope, it’s quite a trek to NYC, at least 1-1:20 hour from campus to manhattan.



whether going to Columbia where the main focus is on graduate students woll not bother you



I don’t what you’re studying but Columbia’s focus is definitely on its ungrads, it requires most profs to teach undergrad classes, and the core is an example of how it focuses on the undergrad. The classes at the undergrad level are small and the undergrad student:faculty ratio is 6.5:1, that’s pretty impressive by any measure.



And this eating club business sounds appealing. Reading about it almost makes me wish I had gone to Princeton for undergrad, lol!



I’ve actually been to several, if my social life revolved around them, I’d shoot myself. I went with friends from both columbia and princeton, so i wasn’t lonely. Our frat parties are pretty bad also, but our social life is usually unconnected to frats.