<p>Columbia just has a million applicants because it's in NYC. I really don't think it has anything going for it except academics.</p>
<p>Lol fine fine. It's not our fault tho that virtually all of our teams suck ass =P. At least we get those Nobels tho =). But yea, Penn is a great school as well and I wudve applied to Wharton had i not done cc ed.</p>
<p>p.s. I think overall- at least in reputation, Columbia is likely the 4th best known Ivy and not as someone previously claimed "a lower 4 ivy". Half the people in the country think UPenn is PSU (not that it shuold penalize you guys but still). 10 years ago Penn was ranked 16 (yup ppl you can go google it). Then they started playing the ED game and manipulated yields and whatnot slowly but surely placing them ahead. Historically- Columbia has ranked higher and I think in the next couple of years will eventually overtake Penn "officially"- if USWNR counts for anything</p>
<p>So what are you doing on our forum anyway?
Haha.</p>
<p>WELL I was trying to get a rivalry started =). But since you guys are so intent on chasing a nonchalant Princeton, have fun all!! haha gl guys, maybe I'll have the pleasure of seeing Lions kick some Quaker butt in a couple of months!</p>
<p>what sport does Columbia have a winning record in? hell, name a sport where Columbia has won a game ;)</p>
<p>haha you guys are all funny. ;)</p>
<p>Finals induced insomnia brings me to post. Gotta love this time of year.</p>
<p>*Columbia actually beat Penn in basketball once last year (in New York), but Penn won the earlier matchup in Philly and the Ivy League. Penn went on to almost beat Texas in the NCAA Tournament; Columbia, well...
*Sports are not irrelevant, it's one of the things that makes the undergraduate experience special. How many classes are your really going to take from a Nobel winner?
*Columbia's football field is 100 blocks from campus, and Penn's is on campus
*Columbia's gym is horrendous, an underground bunker really.
*Columbia also has a symposium during homecoming last year on the Culture of Losing.
*Columbia's mascot is a well endowed lion named Roar-ee. Penn has two Quakers, one of which looks like a serial killer/Chucky and the other got Abu-Gharib treatment from the Brown Bear (the video is on Ivygate and Google Video).
*Columbia also is responsible for Bored@, which I give them props for, despite usually being disgusting.
*Columbia has Lee C. Bollinger as President. Lee-Bo is by far the coolest Ivy President nickname, not that Lee Bollinger is not cool enough already.
*Did I mention Columbia's mascot has breasts and shares a name with a Gilmore Girls character?</p>
<p>Columbia's mascot has breasts?... LIONS =). And yes Bored@ is pretty amazing and so is Bollinger (if he doesnt leave us for Hah'vahd).</p>
<p>Yes, the Columbia Lion has breasts, even the Columbia newspaper writers have written about it. A sports rivalry is at the heart of most inter-school rivalries, and that's why Penn and Columbia don't have one, or Columbia and anyone else for that matter. Columbia sports are categorically the worst of the Ivy League; I think it has something to do with the powder blue.</p>
<p>good thing penn has a president committed to our school and our school only, eh?
lee-bo will have a blast in cambridge :)</p>
<p>roar-ee?? how emasculating.</p>