<p>Which school is Columbia's traditional rival?</p>
<p>Harvard vs. Yale is obvious
Princeton vs. Penn seem to be traditional rivals...</p>
<p>Which leaves Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth... thoughts people?</p>
<p>Judging from the previous thread, there isn't a traditional rivalry for Columbia since that requires both schools to hate each other as opposed to a one sided hate. Princeton seems to have a similar problem. During a YP football game I attended, after the P fans shouted "Yale sucks", the Y fans retorted "Harvard sucks" ... If this website is any judge, Columbia and Penn people seem to share a mutual loathing : )</p>
<p>^Yes, but the Penn-Columbia rivalry doesn't extend off this site, since, besides for strict followers of the Church of USNews (although an educated follower of this church would recognize that Penn was at what? 16th before they started adjusting everything they do for the ranking), Columbia trumps Penn pretty easily.</p>
<p>leaving rankings vigilantism aside, if you polled Columbia and asked students which school they hated the most, the majority would answer Princeton. That's just my experience after 4 years there.</p>
<p>Not that it's a particularly virulent rivalry. Hell, I live with a princeton dude. We make fun of his eating clubs, but he's pretty good-natured about it all.</p>
<p>Personally I can't stand Penn and I think if we're gonna create a rivalry, it'd probably be with Penn.</p>
<p>I say Penn too. We can't, unfortunately, really start a mutual rivalry with Princeton or HY for that matter yet. But Penn actually thinks they're better =P. Time to put them in their place XD.</p>
<p>Def. Brown! Actually learning (core) versus do what you want! Its ok we don't care! just as long as you have fun!</p>
<p>Brown just bugs me for some reason.</p>
<p>Princeton .</p>
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Discussions regarding the foundation of a college in New York began as early as 1704, but serious consideration of such proposals was not entertained until the early 1750s, when local graduates of Yale and members of the congregation of Trinity Church (then Church of England, now Episcopal) in New York City became alarmed by the establishment of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University); both because it was founded by "new-light" Presbyterians influenced by the evangelical Great Awakening and, as it was located in the province just across the Hudson River, because it provoked fears of New York developing a cultural and intellectual inferiority. They established their own "rival" institution, King's College, and elected as its first president Samuel Johnson.
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<p>I dunno, Pton is just too stuck-up tbh. I don't like their attitude, it's too arg... Penn is crap too, but at least they're crappy in an acceptable way, lol... Let's start something with them.</p>
<p>That's the spirit! The other school has to hate you equally for it to be a true rivalry. Penn seems to fall in this category more than Princeton.</p>
<p>Don't you guys have a social rivalry (or mocking) of Princeton for having the Pton students come into NYC and crash Columbia parties because there is 0 to do in Jersey?</p>
<p>Penn and Princeton have a basketball rivalry. They are basically the only two Ivies that have consistently good basketball teams, so that creates a rivalry.</p>
<p>Apparently, whoever you play in the last week of football is your rival (OSU vs Michigan, UNC vs Duke, USC vs UCLA, etc) Columbia plays Brown, Penn plays Cornell, Princeton plays Dartmouth and Harvard plays Yale.</p>
<p>I think rivalries today are grounded more in Ivy Reputation/Academics rather than sports--- with the exception of pton-penn bball. So with that said, any Columbia-Pton "rivalry" is gonna be one sided.</p>
<p>^Yea, with Penn coming out on top by a wide, wide margin :)</p>
<p>Really, if Ivy rivalries aren't along sports lines, and are along academics, that's just sad. I mean, I'm going to transfer out if we can't have friendly sports rivalries. I refuse to be in an athletic conference that cares more about how US News ranks them than how well their athletes compete.</p>
<p>I didn't know Pton kids crash parties at Columbia, damn! Guys, we gotta make sure that they don't try to pull this crap with the class of 2011, ;)</p>
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I say Penn too. We can't, unfortunately, really start a mutual rivalry with Princeton or HY for that matter yet.
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<p>Or ever.</p>
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Personally I can't stand Penn and I think if we're gonna create a rivalry, it'd probably be with Penn.
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<p>What the hell did Penn ever do to you? Rape you? Reject you?</p>
<p>oh hey look, it's JohnnyK antagonizing Columbia students on the Columbia board! Ssshhh kids, don't want to disturb him in his native habitat.</p>
<p>LoLLOL. </p>
<p>Anyone want to start a friendly, albeit competitive rivarly with Penn right here on CC? We can go in there and make a thread along the lines of ... "Columbia Pucks Fenn" XD.</p>
<p>"Reject you?"
No but the other way around. You don't have to do something to someone, in case we haven't made this clear yet: We want to start a rivalry and as far as I'm concerned, you don't go around asking ppl politely: "Hi you nice Penn folks, would you like to start a rivalry with us? I bet it's going to be jolly good fun."</p>
<p>The rivalry would be incredibly boring when we kick your asses in football and basketball. </p>
<p>Also, truazn has spent enough time trying to antagonize Penn students into a Penn/Columbia rivalry. And truazn, what's with the posts saying that you are choosing between Yale and Columbia? Weren't you admitted ED?</p>