<p>I’ve heard a lot about the supposed bureaucracy at Columbia, but I’m wondering if this extends over to the academic side as well. More specifically, I’m interested in taking courses at Columbia GSB. I’m an incoming transfer and I have a strong finance background, but I’d like to take a few finance/social enterprise courses at the business school in addition to completing my undergraduate degree. How commonplace is this and what would I have to do to get approval for this? Thanks all.</p>
<p>It’s fairly commonplace and doesn’t require huge amounts of approvals. One of my current roommates did just that while an undergrad. Frankly, the MBA students usually don’t give half a hoot about their classes (they’re there for the networking and credentials), so B-school professors are happy to welcome in a few undergrads who’ll take it seriously. Who knows, maybe you’ll even get to sneak into a few of the keg parties they seem to always throw on thursday evenings.</p>
<p>Red tape never prevents you from doing anything. It just makes things unnecessarily difficult.</p>