<p>just wondering! thanks for the help :)</p>
Do the GS and CC colleges at Columbia take classes together or do they act as separate institutions?
<p>With the exception of a couple classes, such as the introductory University Writing course, they are totally integrated. Your classes will have both GS and CC students in them.</p>
<p>It isn’t just University Writing - but also the other “core” core classes, like lithum, contemporary civ, musichum, arthum, and whatever eventually replaces frontiers of science. The Core is only taken by the college and the school of engineering, which takes a modified (reduced) example. GS doesn’t have the same core - theirs is more like a set of very loose distribution requirements - so you wouldn’t see them in approximately 30% of your classes. Otherwise, they are fully integrated. They will be in all general registration lectures and seminars. </p>
<p>CUsenior4265, your information is outdated. Source: <a href=“The Core < School of General Studies | Columbia University”>https://gs.columbia.edu/core-requirements</a></p>
<p>GS and CC do exactly the same core requirements. GS just has a little bit more flexibility in how they fulfill them, and often GS students come in with some transfer credit which they apply towards elements of the core, which is why core classes may have fewer GS students than classes for your major.</p>
<p>Compare for yourself:</p>
<p>CC: <a href=“The Core Curriculum”>http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/core</a>
GS: <a href=“https://gs.columbia.edu/the-core”>https://gs.columbia.edu/the-core</a></p>
<p>^ GS still uses different courses taught by different instructors for its mostly elective core denoted by the letter F. </p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>"The GS “Literature-Humanities” requirement is fulfilled by the completion of at least one literature course at Columbia and either an additional literature course or one in the humanities…</p>
<p>GS students MAY (emphasis added) also elect to take the two-semester Literature-Humanities course, HUMA F1001-1002, to fulfill the literature or humanities requirement…</p>
<p><a href=“https://gs.columbia.edu/the-core-literature-humanities”>https://gs.columbia.edu/the-core-literature-humanities</a></p>
<p>“GS students MAY elect to take the two-semester course Contemporary Civilization-F1101-1102, Contemporary Western Civilization, to fulfill the social science requirement.”</p>
<p><a href=“https://gs.columbia.edu/the-core-cc-social-sciences”>https://gs.columbia.edu/the-core-cc-social-sciences</a></p>
<p>“If the “F” sections of Literature Humanities or Contemporary Civilization are full, students may not petition to add into any of the “C” sections. This rule is strictly enforced and no petitions will be accepted.”</p>
<p><a href=“https://gs.columbia.edu/core-registration-and-petitions”>https://gs.columbia.edu/core-registration-and-petitions</a></p>
<p>CUsenior4265 is correct. GS’s “core” is optional and more like distribution requirements.</p>
<p>GS students and Continuing education students take the same course in the same classroom. </p>
<p>The CC core is completely separate from the GS core. GS has their own sections. Otherwise CC, Engineering and GS are fairly well integrated. You do hopefully realize that these are completely separate schools with completely separate admissions and age requirements. You cannot apply to nor would be eligible to apply to both.</p>
<p>@fage345 Just so everyone knows, “fage345” is a Columbia GS reject and is a student at Harvard Extension School. I know who he is and I know him well personally; he has multiple accounts on CollegeConfidential and constantly perpetuates lies on the forum to degrade schools he got rejected from. Please ignore his posts.</p>
<p>A Columbia class can be taken by CC, SEAS, GS, and BC students. Continuing Education students can audit courses, however. </p>
<p>OP, this is everything you need to know about GS:</p>
<p>GS is an official undergraduate liberal arts college of Columbia University, just like Columbia College. GS students take the same classes with the same faculty and earn the exact same degrees as Columbia College students. </p>
<p>GS students are non-traditional in that they have taken a year or more off from their academic careers or are pursuing dual undergraduate degrees (e.g. Science Po, JTS, etc.). </p>
<p>Over 25% of the undergraduate population at Columbia are GS students, and they are known for having particularly high GPAs, as well.</p>
<p>If for any reason that turns you off, don’t let it. There are some incredibly exceptional people in GS. </p>