<p>Given your apparent devotion to Columbia by your commitment to this website, Columbia2002, I had assumed that you feel tremendous devotion to the institution. I respect and admire that kind of devotion to one’s alma mater. It may be a leap, but I suspect that you wouldn’t want another potentially great fellow alum to decide not to apply to Columbia because he or she felt (irrationally, granted, but these are 17-year old folk) “put off” by the CC “experts”?</p>