<p>I am a junior at UAlbany with a 4.0 & I want to apply to the dual MBA/JD program at Columbia. My question is what kind of work experience will I need? I know MBA programs typically want 3-5 years work experience but it is not as important for law school. (I do have a steady internship with the NY Gaming Association.) Any information that will help my chances of getting in is much appreciated. If there is anyone currently doing the MBA/JD program, is it humanly possible to do it in 3 years?!?</p>
<p>First of all, I want to thank you guys for providing help. My daughter is a high school sophomore and Columbia University is her dream school. She is good at writing and music. She will fly to NY for a performance on Oct 20th. She wants to take this opportunity to visit Columbia University.</p>
<p>According to her schedule, she can only visit on 21th which is Sunday. Visitor Center closes on Sunday, so she can only do a self-visit. She cannot drive. Do you guys have any suggestion? Like where should she go to visit? Does she have any opportunity to meet people? Can she go inside some buildings? etc.</p>
<p>Hi there! Can you tell me the differences between Columbia University, Columbia College and Columbia University School of General Studies?ThankS!</p>
<p>Sure. Columbia University is the overall university: [Columbia</a> University in the City of New York](<a href=“http://columbia.edu%5DColumbia”>http://columbia.edu)</p>
<p>Within Columbia University, there are a bunch of grad schools, 3 undergraduate colleges, and 1 affiliated women’s undergraduate college. The undergrad colleges are Columbia College (CC), the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), General Studies (GS), and Barnard College (BC).</p>
<p>CC is a liberal arts school for students who are either coming straight out of high school or have only taken one year off between high school and college. GS is for “non-traditional students,” i.e. those who have taken a break of 2 or more years from their education. Lots of soldiers, professional dancers, and the like end up in GS since they put their education on hold while they went into the service or career.</p>
<p>If you’re in high school when you apply to Columbia, apply to CC.</p>
<p>If you’re not in high school when you apply to Columbia, apply to GS.</p>
<p>If you’re in high school when you apply and you want to study engineering, apply to SEAS.</p>
<p>And if you’re in high school when you apply, you’re a woman, and you want to go to an all-women’s college, apply to Barnard.</p>
<p>If a freshman has to plan the summer vacation and book tickets in advance - on which date can it be done? May 22 is the commencement - assume it is only relevant for seniors and not freshmen - is this correct?</p>
<p>In the academic calendar - can someone explain what exactly is “commencement” as far as freshmen/rising sophomores are concerned?</p>
<p>Commencement means nothing to freshman - it’s for graduating students across the university. If your freshman lives in housing, their move-out day is before Commencement anyway - I can’t remember exactly when it is, but I do believe it’s two Saturdays before Commencement (as in the Saturday immediately following finals, which end on Friday).</p>
<p>Booking tickets should be done after the student’s last final exam. Wait for the final exam schedule to be published. It’s available on SSOL pretty early into the semester - the fall one should be there already. If you are talking about the spring, the safest bet is late Friday or Saturday, but your student may be done with finals earlier than that depending on the schedule. But no, you don’t have to worry about commencement.</p>
<p>my son is coming for a visit in the near future…he is flying into Newark on a Friday morning…arrival time is supposed to be 9am…will it be possible to make the 10am information session? He will only have carryon luggage?</p>
<p>Vandy. This may be a problem depending on where he is coming from and the airline. If you can avoid checked bags do it. Flights to EWR are often very delayed and baggage is VERY slow for United I can’t speak to the other airlines.</p>
<p>1) Do students in the dorms normally have a “land line phone connection”? What is the procedure for the students to have this phone connection set up? Typically, what do the present students do - have a land line in their dorm or just have the mobile phone or both?</p>
<p>2) How many students are there normally in a core class? what is the student faculty ratio?</p>
<p>I guess you can take 4 core courses second semester if you take Lit Hum, one of FroSci/UWriting, one of Music/Art Hum, and one Global Core course. I don’t know anybody who did that; personally I would recommend taking more electives to ascertain your potential major and better organize your academic schedule in future years.</p>
<p>I have a 4.28 GPA (definitely a rising grade trend, 4.7 in last semester of junior year). 2260 SAT (800 CR, 770 W, 690 M) but I just retook that so hopefully I will do better. SATII- 770 in Bio E and 800 in US History. 5s on three AP exams.
I took every difficult course my school offered, so I was almost all honors or APs in 10th-12th grade. I’m taking 4 AP classes this year.
My best extracurriculars are Mock Trial, which i’ve been involved in for three years, Bio Club, which I was in in 10th and 12th grade and I’m conservation director for 12th, and Boy Scouts, which I’ve been in since I was 12. My Eagle Scout application is currently in progress but it won’t be done before my application is turned in, and I’ve had a few significant leadership roles.
I don’t expect my teacher recommendations to be much better than average, and my essays probably aren’t amazing.
Is there anything I can do now to boost my chances? And is it worth applying ED?</p>
<p>You could take LitHum, UW/Frontiers, and both Art/Music Hum. I’d say most people do Art and Music Hum in different semesters during sophomore or junior year, but I do know a few who did it as freshmen.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a bad idea to take a lot of Core classes early, but taking lots of electives as a freshman or sophomore can also be valuable insofar as they help you figure out what you may want to major in.</p>
<p>I think 3 Core and 2 electives or 2 Core and 3 electives is pretty common for freshmen. I also wouldn’t consider Global Core to be Core classes. They’re basically electives that just so happen to fulfill Core requirements. </p>
<p>Are you already done with the language requirement?</p>
<p>I will bring my daughter to Columbia University this weekend. Since Visitor Center closes in the weekend, we can only do a Self Tour. We are not able to get into any build either, since it is requires Columbia I.D. It seems that besides walking on the campus, there is not much we can do. Do you have any suggestion for us for the visit? </p>
<p>BTW, I heard there is home coming this weekend.</p>
<p>How important are EC’s? Im an international student going to an American high school (fluent english) with a nice GPA (not the best…i guess 96+). I havent really done that much ECs and Im starting to get involved in some activities a lot more.</p>
<p>Hey everybody I was looking at the core curriculum last night and didn’t see any math requirements. I’m currently in community college and taking remedial elementary/intermediate algebra in order to take college algebra. im planning on majoring in business management, and I know I will need some math for this degree regardless of the school but as a transfer applicant is elementary/intermediate necessary to take college algebra or higher math courses at Columbia?
Thanks for your help.</p>