<p>Undergraduate education is just that…UNDER.</p>
<p>Once you achieve your graduate studies or doctorate…no one cares or gives two hoots what you study, where and the GPA you received at your undergraduate school.</p>
<p>It will help better prepare you for graduate school and doctorate programs as well as strong foundations in your field if you go to Columbia…</p>
<p>but it doesn’t make too much a difference for a majority of the world.</p>
<p>Top education can be a double edged sword as well. So can one from a regular state school.</p>