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Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>I'm kind of confused. Please help me clarify this problem... These two essays are in the Columbia University Supplement Application in the Common app:</p>

<p>For applicants to Columbia College, please tell us what attracts you specifically to the field or fields of study that you noted in the Application Data section. If you are currently undecided, please write about any field or fields in which you may have interest at this time, but have not yet selected as a major interest.</p>

<p>For applicants to The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, please tell us what attracts you specifically to the study of engineering.</p>

<p>If I'm planning for an Engineering major, aren't the two questions basically the same thing? Do I answer both differently or the same? Or should I only answer the 2nd question? Please help! Any help would be appreciated greatly. :)</p>

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<p>You just answer the second, since you are applying to study Engineering at the Fu Coundation, SEAS.</p>

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<p>In my day, Columbia only asked the second question. If you were applying to the College, there was no essay about your academic interests. It looks like they added one, but it still doesn’t apply to SEAS applicants, who have always had the “Why Engineering?” question.</p>

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<p>…You are not applying to “Columbia College”. Columbia University and Columbia College are two very different things. You are applying to the Fu Foundation. Only the second question applies to you.</p>

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<p>@ isabelwhatx </p>

<p>Woah woah woah woah woah. Hold up.
Columbia college & Columbia university…two different things!!! Have i been living a life of lies?! Elaborate please!</p>

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<p>Sorry to butt in but she means Columbia College is the college in Columbia University along with the other college, SEAS (Fu).</p>

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<p>or, in other words: Columbia University has 4 undergraduate schools: Columbia College, SEAS (for engineering), General Studies (for non-traditional students) and Barnard. When you say Columbia University, you’re including the WHOLE university - not just the undergrad schools but the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Medical School, Law School, Business School, etc.</p>

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<p>A '15er on the Columbia 2016 group said Columbia only has three undergraduate schools, so minus Barnard, everything else mrbc2011 said is right though! Glido also just said everything super simply ;)</p>