<p>I am transferring to Columbia, and at my current school, every students at least vaguely knows the other 60-70% of the students, and there are a few popular kids who everyone knows about.</p>
<p>Do Columbia students, becuase of its size, only know their friends and few others, and the rest of the students complete strangers to them?</p>
<p>I know the names of 19500/22000 students, they all know me, and I now know 60% of faculty and 90% of their families.</p>
<p>What is that supposed to mean?</p>
<p>it means he is saying that it’s unreasonable to judge the “impersonal-ness” of a school by how well you know XX% of the population. Especially when Columbia sounds like a bigger school than the one you are coming from. </p>
<p>Sorry I can’t be helpful and answer your questions because I don’t know yet.</p>
<p>Oh and also because he knows family of faculty more he might be trying to clue us in on the fact that he has slept with many of his professor’s wives.</p>
<p>Or husbands.</p>
<p>It’s cut-throat out there, gotta keep your GPA up SOMEHOW. And everyone goes for the old “sleeping with your professor” route. Might as well mix it up a little.</p>