<p>congrats hannah, you know you can’t make a bad choice between the two.</p>
<p>the hard part is generalizing obfuscates the fact that there are liberal elites at brown, and poor hippies at columbia. also it is important to note that columbia is about the layers of experience you get - from the core, to the campus life, to the life of the city; concentric circles of intrigue and opportunity, it is what makes columbia truly unique and unbeatable in my opinion. and as i’ve argued before - columbia needs the core as much as it is a ‘good idea,’ it creates an added component of cohesion to a school that outstrips brown by some 40 majors, and some 100 research institutes, it encourages intimacy and discussion that challenges the supremacy of the city, reinforcing this duality of having a small town experience in a huge city.</p>
<p>and how can you like a curriculum when there is no curriculum? :-p</p>
<p>Choose Brown at your peril.</p>
<p>My friend has been accepted as a Davis scholar. He is a little mystified about the place of SEAS at Columbia. Isn’t Columbia a liberal arts school ? How good are the engineering students when compared to those going to engineering programs at some of the other well-known universities. Do Columbia engineers primarily go onto graduate programs such as those from Caltech and MIT or do they go into industry ? How are they faring in the current job(less) situation ? What are the hot fields right now ? He has gotten acceptances at all the engineering schools that he applied to except for MIT. He has gotten into Wharton but would prefer to get good training in applied math and economics instead.</p>
<p>I know that this is a blizzard but i would greatly appreciate hearing from current students at Columbia and other engineering colleges</p>
<p>this is a tangent snaryan - please read some threads on engineering that are on here.</p>
<p>cu has a strong apmath and financial engineering to industry relationship. he probably applied to Columbia SEAS because he knows it is pretty reputable ugrad program in engineering, especially for those students that do not have strict interests in just being an engineer for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>and no - columbia is a major research institution, not a liberal arts school. some of its engineering work has led to major patents that help keep columbia wealthy. it has, however, a liberal arts college, and with the ugrad component of engineering form the two central ugrad institutions of the university.</p>