I have one week left and am completely torn. I want to study poly sci/ econ/philosophy. I love the city but I love cali. I’d appreciate any insights/suggestions!
<p>I'd choose Stanford unless you'd rather stay in nyc</p>
<p>Stanford! It's an amazing school in an amazing state (;D) and a friend of mine who took philosophy classes there LOVED them and wouldn't stop talking about them.</p>
<p>Columbia. Good law. Big bucks. NYC rules. liberals are disgusting and reside in California</p>
<p>Avoid California at all costs.</p>
<p>Columbia IMO, but depends on preference</p>
<p>IMO, Columbia, but it depends on your major and what you want in a college experience. Some other stats about you would help us help you.</p>
<p>Stanford has better law :)</p>
<p>NYC is pretty liberal too, and maybe he/she likes liberals lol</p>
<p>Tired_student:</p>
<p>Stanford law- #3
Columbia law- #4</p>
<p>Not much difference there at all...</p>
<p>Go to stanford. </p>
<p>Just yesterday my friend and i were wandering down the halls for really no reason (we were pretty bored- nothing for high school kids in palo alto) and we walk by psychologist Philip Zimbardo...pretty freakin sweet.</p>
<p>lol, I am in fact extremely liberal and extremely interested in political activism as well as an intellectual atmosphere. I've heard that the stanford student body is fairly conservative.....?</p>
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<p>Like there are less liberals in New York, smart one?</p>
<p>Assuming that that's even a bad thing...</p>
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<p>OMG IT'S ANN COULTER!!! </p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Palo Alto is a lot more conservative than Manhatten. However, when talking about SF, only 1% less people voted for Bush in SF than in Manhatten. (I think it was something like 17% in SF and 18% in Manhatten.)</p>
<p>Personally, if I were accepted to both, I'd probably go to Stanford. Stanford's campus is really sunny and warm most of the year. The lower SF Peninsula gets all the good weather here in the Bay Area. When I passed by Columbia on an NYC tour, it was really cold and SF weather-like. :\ Still, I love NY. I'll be at NYU this fall. :)</p>
<p>Columbia is far more politically active than Stanford. This is also one of the main reasons I chose to apply ED to Columbia over SCEA to Stanford. There are major protests and strikes at Columbia almost everyday spanning all major issues. It seems that Palo Alto was way too insulated and the students were not nearly as active as one would have thought.</p>
<p>If you want political activism, Columbia is a much better choice than Stanford.</p>
<p>Stanford in a nanosecond. Arguably better academics and a much more community oriented atmosphere. NYC will come later and you will enjoy it more then. The city itself is much more catered to people in their 20s as opposed to college students and you see this immediately. An awesome college experience like Stanford only comes once. I transferred out of Columbia to Dartmouth for quality of life reasons, and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Now at 25 Columbia for grad school is perfect.</p>
<p>Slipper, I understand your position, but you have been telling everyone not to go undergrad to Columbia no matter what other school they are looking at. Personally, I am the exact opposite of you. Columbia undergrad looking at Stanford for grad school because much of the focus at Stanford is placed on the grad students. </p>
<p>Again, for the OP, it is all about what you want. If you want a politically active campus, then Columbia is your place.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you in your college decision and if you do join the Columbia Class of 2009, Welcome and I look forward to meeting you on campus in late Summer.</p>
<p>Stanford is better academically, but it's so freakin' boring in palo alto.</p>
<p>Yes, Palo Alto is a very boring and .. boring city. However, LA is a few hours away, and San Francisco is nearby, so you can't really help but ask yourself.. are you really in the middle of nowhere? At least you're not in some godforsaken middle of the field where the nearest city with 500,000+ people is in the next four states over.</p>
<p>Yeah, but why wouldn't you go to school in NYC where it is never boring and always exciting? The boring Palo Alto scene seems to be more for grad students because they are looking to study and do well in their grad schools classes to get a good job.</p>
<p>Quantifyme, where did you end up deciding upon?</p>