<p>I’m a current undergrad at Columbia, been here a few years. Columbia is a flawed institution like any other, we have our disadvantages, our campus is not massive and sprawling, our athletics are nothing spectacular and our bureaucracy takes time to learn how to navigate (this is getting better slowly). If our flaws were so deep and so widespread we simply would not be a top 10 institution now would we?</p>
<p>We’re one of best research universities in the world we have one of finest liberal arts colleges anywhere, we have improved considerably as a school in the last decade. We are one of the toughest schools to get into and we attract top professors. We wouldn’t be able to this without a beautiful campus and an administration that works for student and professor interests. We wouldn’t be able to be where we are if campus and surrounding areas was crime ridden. I’ve had perhaps 1 phd student run my university writing class of 15, she has been one of my best and most inspirational teachers, all other classes of mine, whether big or small, have been by professors.</p>
<p>On wall street if something is too good to be true, then it probably is, and at an institution that is widely recognized as one of best in the world. If it’s too bad to be true, then it probably is. Why you would pay attention to one poster’s vendetta against us is beyond me. Every school will have some lunatic who hates it, or someone who is trying to sabotage it and undermine its reputation. Columbia has disadvantages, but it isn’t an evil or incompetently run organization, if it were, you wouldn’t see us near the top and improving over the last decade.</p>