Penn vs Columbia

circuitrider
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 14:25:55 +0000

It’s hard for me to believe that any comparison between Penn and Columbia won’t eventually boil down to which city someone would want to live in for the next four years. I went to grad school at Penn and rarely set foot downtown. I’m a frequent visitor to the Upper West Side of Manhattan and I spot Columbia students on the Broadway local 24 hours a day. From what I can see, there’s very little sunlight between the two schools academically, but, a huge difference in terms of ambience.