<p>i think duke and columbia undergrad are very close as far as EDUCATION is concerned… columbia definitely has duke beaten as far as PRESTIGE is concerned due to its great graduate schools across the board… it’s one of the few schools that is at the top of just about any grad school rankings… in three of the biggest ones, the difference between the two is very little though (according to USN&WR)</p>
<p>business school: columbia-9 duke-14
law school: columbia-4 duke-12
medical school: columbia-11 duke-6</p>
<p>Some of the opinions on this thread are just plain wrong. For example</p>
<p>–Columbia has the largest undegraduate population in the Ivy league
–Columbia is next to Wall Street
–Columbia trails UPenn in academic quality.
–the core curriculum leaves no time for electives</p>
<p>All false. You Columbia bashers should take a cue from Abe Lincoln; ‘Better to keep silent and let everyone believe you to be a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.’</p>
<p>Duke is better than Columbia b/c last time I checked, the number 8 rank on US NEWS was better than the number 11 that Columbia had…so Duke is better…and anyway the only graduate school that matters is med school…b/c w/o doctors people would die…so Duke is better and it has a better med school…in the end …i win the argument…game over columbia people who think their school is that great…pssah…i actually decided not to apply to that pathetic school…good thing i didn’t apply!</p>
<p>I think DevilKnight is actually a Columbia student masquerading as a Duke-r (or whatever you call them). Thanks to DK, Columbia now looks 100x better in comparison.</p>
<p>I don’t know about you all, but I don’t get what’s the hype with NYC. I really would not want to go to college there, much less live there. And I like cities–I can even stand LA. But New York? Yuck. Maybe an occasional visit. Anyone with me?</p>
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<p>Who claimed that? I had said that Columbia is the largest Ivy in terms of student body (obviously including grads)–at 25,000.</p>
That survey has repeatedly shown to be false by numerous reputable posters on CC. It’s really outdated and there’s a clear bias among the sample demographic; it only surveyed students from prep schools in the Northeast who are more likely to be interested in the Ivy name. I still think more kids would choose Columbia over Duke due to the simple fact that most of the cross admits from the schools are likely to be Northeasterners, who are more aware of Columbia’s prestige due its close proximity.</p>
<p>devilknight,
by your logic, p trumps h (which is definitely not true) and penn trumps many schools that are better! You can’t be serious!?</p>
<p>BTW, Kyle proves my point about Columbia. For everyone who applies there because of NYC, there is another one (perhaps even 1.5 persons) who would never even consider applying for the very same reason!</p>
<p>I love New York and can’t imagine living anywhere else, but I agree with College Yahoo in that it’s right for some, but not right for others. I can see why some people hate the city for the same reasons that I love it. It basically comes down to what you like, but that’s different for each person. Some people think Cornell’s campus is beautiful… I don’t see the appeal in it.</p>