Quality of life at Columbia? (vs Brown?)

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<p>I was perusing students review dot com.</p>

<p>Obviously, this is not a reliable way to analyze Universities. However, Columbia seems to be getting a bad rap. Columbia is getting the worst comments out of all the Ivies, by a long shot.</p>

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<p>Check out both of those links and read a few of the comments. Is the quality of life this poor at Columbia? Are Brown students really the happiest in the nation? I’d like to hear anything you have to say on this issue, as both are Universities I am highly considering applying to.</p>

<p>Anything related to Brown vs Columbia is welcome commentary.</p>

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<p>on that website you don’t have to verify that you’re a student/alumnus of the school you’re reviewing. </p>

<p>also it’s self-selecting.</p>

<p>that makes the validity virtually 0.</p>

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<p>Yes I know this has little validity.</p>

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<p>However, while those negative Columbia commentators are self-selecting, so are the positive Brown ones. That might say something.</p>

<p>I also wanted to use the opportunity to hear opinions comparing Columbia to Brown.</p>

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<p>^You need to ask more specific questions and talk about your interests and personality, “quality of life” if defined completely differently by different people. For some the crowds and fast pace of new york greatly reduces quality of life, for others it greatly adds to quality of life, so ask pointed questions.</p>

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<p>My suggestion is to go over the Quality-of-Life threads linked in the “Helpful Columbia Threads” thread pinned to the top of this board. Those are often contributed by less-than-perfectly-anonymous, respected members of this board, and give a lot more detail than an up-or-down vote.</p>

<p>65% of people would choose to “return to Columbia”, and 35% would not? </p>

<p>Compare the fact that the transfer admissions rate is somewhere around 4%, because virtually nobody transfers out of Columbia. I know this firsthand from working at Housing - we’d have a single-digit number of people transfering out of the system each year. So something doesn’t quite square, and I imagine it’s your site.</p>