My point in the prior post is that @Ohiodad51 's point in practice, only applied to the Double-Degree students at Oberlin as they have to apply separately and meet the admission standards of BOTH separately to qualify as such.
As such, they are the only Con and College students who tend to get more respect as a cut above the rest of both con and college students.
Con students alone, not so much. Especially considering some come in with really lowish SAT scores or marginal GPAs because most of what determined admission to the Con was based on a series of auditions to see if their demonstrated musical talents are of the sufficient standard to be admitted to be shaped to be topflight musicians.
That and the decades-old jokes by students from the college about the Con students’ supposed lacking of academic acumen in class outside of their virtuosity in their musical instrument(s).
In short, the NYU-Stern vis a vis rest of NYU doesn’t exist between most Con students vis a vis their college counterparts.
Not too sure about some of that considering one HS classmate who turned down MIT to attend Harvard as an engineering major regretted it later on during our undergrad years(mid-late '90s) as in her words, Harvard DEAS was the “neglected stepchild” of FAS and regarded as one of the weakest links in the Harvard academic chain.
Also, up until the end of the '90s/early '00s, a similar dynamic existed between Columbia College and to a lesser extent Barnard College and Columbia SEAS because the former two had much higher GPA/SAT admission requirements than the last.
In fact, the gap was so wide that so long as one was lopsided heavily in favor of math, if one had a B/B+ average and a 1200 on the pre-1995 SATs, one was a practical shoo-in as was the case with many HS classmates and NYC area students. As a result, the SEAS folks were heavily looked down upon by their Columbia College counterparts and to a lesser extent, Barnard counterparts back then.
This wasn’t helped by the fact that many lopsided students whose stats only qualified them for Columbia SEAS used that admission as a backdoor ticket to Columbia college and its associated perceived higher prestige as back then an internal transfer between colleges only required one to be in good academic standing for 1 year and filing some pro-forma paperwork which was practically always approved. This was an open secret among many students…especially those at STEM-centered public magnets like Stuy or TJSST…and likely a reason why Columbia U changed their policies so now it’s much harder to effect such an internal transfer.