<p>If I wanted to go into business/law/politics, which one would be the best to apply for? Thanks.</p>
<p>one question: have you or will you be taking years off after high school?</p>
<p>if yes- general studies
if no- college</p>
<p>general studies are for students who has gap year(s) between their hs and university education</p>
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<p>lynda School of General Studies (GS) has recently begun admitting students directly from high school, provided that they need to attend school on a part-time basis for academic or professional reasons. However, they can easily switch from a part-time status to a full-time status after the first semester. Otherwise, they may intentionally take a year off after high school, in order to apply to GS as a freshman. The only reason that GS only admits a student whose education has been postponed for more than a year after high school is that Columbia College (CC) has a strict age-limit, and grants a new high school graduate a grace period of one year from high school graduation to apply as a freshman; after this period is over, he or she has to apply to GS. Anyway, it is natural in community colleges and state universities that many students attend school part-time, while working part- or full-time to pay their bills and tuitions, so that they inevitably end up spending several years before they are ready to transfer to other universities. However, since top Ivy League schools, such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, close their doors to all such non-traditional students, they have no chance to transfer there. Although state universities accept a large number of transfer students regardless of their age, and allow part-time enrollment, it is just not the way it is in many Ivy League Schools, except for GS. Therefore, there is a good reason to go to GS, if you were in such circumstances. </p>
<p>BreakOrDeath88 If you were definitely going into business, and if you think you could definitely maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher at Columbia, so as to get into Business School or Law School in the future, you might want to go to GS, because GS has combined programs with Business School and Law School within the same institution. Columbia College has a combined program with Law School, but not with Business School.</p>
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