<p>I understand the desire—no, compulsion—to seek out as much information as possible about the school that’s your top choice, and I have to say I’m impressed that you’re such a diligent researcher you can find truly obscure sources about the university, but the comments on that site are absolute ********.</p>
<p>I mean, are you really going to trust someone who writes: </p>
<p>"The name of the university and its location were the reasons that made me choose Columbia. 3 weeks after the beginning of my freshman year I realized that I have done a terrible mistake.</p>
<p>As my counselor told me; engineering should not be studied in an Ivy League school just because it is a label. I wish I have preferred another school I was admitted to such as Stanford, Cornell or even USC. Engineering in Columbia is totally trash and useless."</p>
<p>Sorry, but I think the atrocious grammar of that comment is telling. If it’s simply a result of carelessness, then you have to consider how serious the commenter must be if they’re unwilling to even read over their comment before submitting it. If they truly believed that it was imperative to keep people away from Columbia, wouldn’t they have bothered to make their writing intelligible?</p>
<p>If it’s the case that the commenter—despite being at an Ivy League school—has atrocious grammar, then you should consider whether their experience at Columbia can really be generalized for other students. Pay attention to what they’re saying: they chose Columbia entirely because of its prestige and location in New York and now believe they would have received a better engineering education at USC. That’s an unusual perspective. It doesn’t mean it’s not valid for that specific individual (who, if I had to guess, I’d assume was an international student), but it suggests it’s probably not valid for all, or even most, of the other students at Columbia, particularly those in CC.</p>
<p>As tsar said, it’s an anonymous, disorganized collection of comments. You shouldn’t take it that seriously.</p>