<p>Just to confirm, the C1493 lab can be take by students who have taken 1600s to fulfill the lab requirement, right?</p>
<p>Don’t you think you should ask your fysaac dean, not an online message board??? Worst case scenario is you take 1400 and dont realize it didnt satisfy your requirements until 2nd semester senior year. Don’t be that person.</p>
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<p>Actually, the alums/upperclassmen on here are probably more knowledgeable than some dean who is likely to be full of misinformation.</p>
<p>^no, we’d be better with strategy, but not up to date on how requirements change every year and what a first should must take to fulfill requirements.</p>
<p>I consistently got serious misinformation from the deans. If someone who knows about how Columbia works takes the time to look things up in the bulletins, etc., then they can figure out the answer. Getting a bum answer from a dean will not save you come graduation time when you missed a requirement.</p>
<p>You also went to Columbia 7-11 years ago. If you believe personnel and policies haven’t improved over that time (god knows I’ve seen them improve in my 4 years here), I don’t know what to say.</p>
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<p>God that sounds horrible. </p>
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<p>The Columbia red-tape is a classic complaint about the school, and others on here who are more current than me have b’tched about it.</p>
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<p>you can drop from the 1600 track at any time. one of my friends did from 1602 to 1403. labs are fair game also (i took 1494 last semester).</p>
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<p>Red-tape is an entirely different issue than the knowledgeability of the advising deans.</p>