<p>What's life like at Columbia?
How are the classes there and what are the students like?
Are there lots of party and how many people actually utilize the coed dorms?
I'd like to know from someone who attends the college or an alumni if possible.</p>
<p>Columbia can be pretty intense. We like to play stress olympics (i.e. who has a bigger workload, “no, I’M more stressed!,” things like that) and the average student takes five classes, unlike the four most of our peers take. We also typically are involved in student organizations, have internships, and jobs. It’s not an easy school by any means. That being said, there are definitely still opportunities to party and have fun. There are a couple of quasi designated “party dorms” (Carman for freshman, EC for everyone else) and a lot of people end up at a few of the neighborhood bars (1020, The Heights, although a police crackdown has meant that they card a lot more). All of the dorms are co-ed (with the exception of Furnald 2 and a few floors in Carman), although if you’re asking how many people have mixed-gender rooms, I’m not sure–it’s definitely not something that’s terribly uncommon. While I don’t like all of my classmates (I’m in the college–or CC–class of 2016, for reference), most of them are great. If you want to get an idea of what CU students are like, read some of our publications. Bwog, The Blue & White, Spectrum (the blog of the newspaper, the Spectator), 292, The Federalist, etc (google 'em). Basically we’re all pretty stressed but none of us would have it any other way, myself included. Some classes are incredibly hard, some are less so. Unfortunately, parts of the Core are somewhat lacking–U Writing and Frontiers of Science are basically a waste of time, although I absolutely loved Lit Hum and I’m looking forward to Art and Music Hum. The hardest part is probably trying to balance feeling like you’re taking advantage of the city and getting all of your work done–it’s very easy to spend three weeks going no farther south than 110th, which can get depressing.</p>
<p>It sounds like the perfect place for me.
I feel like I’m always stressed, so that won’t be a something new. If I happen to go to Barnard would I receive a lot of harassment for it?</p>
<p>It depends. I’ve never seen outright harassment of Barnard students in person, but there’s a lot of nastiness posted online, particularly in Bwog comments. Barnard students that pretend they go to Columbia College are usually the ones that get the most flack. Basically, if you got to Barnard, do it because you love Barnard, not because you really wanted to go to Columbia and didn’t get in.</p>
<p>But even if I did get rejected from columbia but got into Barnard I wouldn’t say I go to Columbia</p>
<p>You don’t understand post #4. Don’t apply to Barnard if all you want is to be in the presence of Columbia.</p>
<p>Why not? I planned to apply there regardless of Columbia.</p>