<p>Hi, I recently committed to Columbia University and I was wondering how to go about creating a "UNI".</p>
<p>Are we supposed to apply for one ourselves from [url=<a href="http://uni.columbia.edu/?%5DmyUNI%5B/url">http://uni.columbia.edu/?]myUNI[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Or are they going to send us one via email?</p>
<p>Thanks very much!</p>
<p>THey’ll create one for you internally, and you’ll check out what yours is using the directory search on columbia’s home website. you can search for yours after 2 to 3 days after your information is entered into database… pretty lame way, IMO, should’ve just sent you an officially notification. </p>
<p>also, Columbia should’ve also just a student ID, in addition to UNI, because, basically everyone can search who you are just by searching a UNI on columbia’s directory. A student ID number would’ve been a more secure identification for each student. I mean, if professor post each student’s grade in a spreadsheet, he can’t just have the UNI next to the grade, right?</p>
<p>Do you know approximately when we get one?</p>
<p>They’ll post it sometime in June, I think.</p>
<p>Also, Wifey, Columbia students have a student ID number (starts with C00) in addition to a UNI. And what professor would post grades in a spreadsheet, especially with UNIs attached to them? CourseWorks exists for a reason…</p>
<p>regardless of how professors post grades, UNI isn’t a secure way to identify a student, because you can guess whom a certain UNI belongs to because it’s formed by initials. </p>
<p>I know the C00 number exists, but I almost never saw them being used to identify student anywhere on campus.</p>
<p>C number used for bill payment…</p>