<p>Can a current Columbia student give me some insight on the combined plan? Is it a well-known thing? Is there a stigma against people in it? I am on a pre-med track at my current college, but was interested in pursuing computer science. However, that is in the engineering school and if I switched to that school I would not only give up my biochemistry degree but I also would have to take at least another year to graduate. My current school has a very strong liberal arts curriculum, and when I was applying to colleges, Columbia was my top choice (I was deferred and then rejected). SO, thinking way ahead, I was considering this combined plan thing, but I don't really know much about it, so any personal perspectives would be awesome. :)</p>
<p>what kind of combined plan?</p>
<p>I’m not currently at Columbia, but I’m in the third (final) year of the 3-2 program. </p>
<p>From what I read, of all the students at Columbia, roughly 150 got there as a result of the 3-2 program.</p>
<p>Members of the combined plan have guaranteed housing during their first year at Columbia, and they live with mostly other kids from the combined plan, so everyone is in the same boat. I’d imagine that makes the transition much easier.</p>
<p>The Columbia combined plan coordinator referred to the combined plan as a “hidden jewel” in American higher education. </p>
<p>But like I said, I don’t go to Columbia (yet). However, the idea of there being any kind “stigma” against kids in the combined plan seems ridiculous.</p>
<p>ShowShowShow, it does seem ridiculous. I have some questions about combined plan–can I PM you? I don’t know anything about the details of it, and the website is rather vague; plus, I am not going to one of the affiliated schools, so some insight would be awesome :)</p>
<p>I replied to your PM, but the site says that my outbox is empty and that there are no sent items. Did you get it?</p>
<p>@SSS You need to check off the box to save the message in your sent messages folder before you send it.</p>
<p>It seems that the message was “replied to” and not technically “sent”, so it doesn’t show up in the outbox. </p>
<p>It’s kind of confusing … I’m pretty sure I sent the same message to you twice colleen.</p>