<p>Given the fact that there exists this perception that Columbia is mostly a liberal arts school, and its engineering school is strongly influenced by the liberal arts program, will SEAS lose quite a few admits to other schools which are perceived to be more "tech oriented", such as Carnegie Mellon, Caltech, Cornell, Berkeley etc?....im sure most admits to SEAS are qualified enough to get into several other top engineering schools (most of which are perceived to have a math/science focus, as opposed to a more liberal arts focus that exits in Columbia), and might choose these tech focused school over columbia....is this true to any degree at all?</p>
<p>Not sure what the point of this thread is. Obviously many people who are admitted to Columbia -- SEAS or CC -- choose to go to other schools. I don't remember the number, but isn't the RD yield only like 50 or 60%? People choose to go to other schools for a variety of reasons, such as thinking the school they ultimately choose has better academics, is in a better location, would give them more opportunities, is a better fit/experience for them. This seems pretty obvious to me, but I guess it isn't to you. Since plenty of people who are accepted to SEAS enroll in other schools, it's not shocking that SEAS would lose admitted students to other top engineering schools that have attributes that could appeal to those students. It's also not shocking that people who are admitted into CC and don't attend might end up at Harvard or Princeton or a top LAC or a west-coast school like Stanford. So yes, people turn Columbia down because they're admitted to other great schools that offer something different that they like more. Did you not expect this?</p>
<p>I was admitted to CMU, Cornell, and a few other top eng schools but I chose SEAS...</p>
<p>well, it's not that i don't know that schools lose admits to other schools, but the point of my question was that does SEAS lose a significant portion of its admits to other engineering school because of the perception that Columbia is not as "tech focused" as say Caltech, CMU etc...what i wanted to know is whether or not the yield for SEAS is pretty low relative to other top engineering schools which are perceived as more "tech focused"? actually, can someone please give me the yield rate for SEAS, i think that will better answer my question lol</p>
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<p>it's slightly over 50% overall, as context: cmu is about 25%, mit and stanford engineering would be higher probably in the 60s or 70s.</p>
<p>CMU's yield is only 25%? That's surprising. But I guess its overall overlap with other tech powerhouses is higher... As opposed to CU, whose draw to applicants might be its Core or Ivyness (I'm certain the latter is a thing people are drawn to for one reason or another).</p>
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<p>um...have you ever been to CMU? pittsburgh sucks and while it has a great business school and great eng classes, it doesnt offer the same kind of intellectual opportunities as even most other tech schools</p>
<p>"But I guess its overall overlap with other tech powerhouses is higher..."</p>
<p>this is what i've heard to be the case, but one would not know if not an admissions officer at cmu.</p>
<p>" As opposed to CU, whose draw to applicants might be its Core or Ivyness (I'm certain the latter is a thing people are drawn to for one reason or another)."</p>
<p>people don't go to harvard or yale becuase of it's ivyness, i'd say the same applies to columbia. Someone choosing between mit or harv, or between even chicago/northwestern and columbia, would not say hmm, all else is equal, let me go to columbia because it's ivy. If it's between a lesser known college, people would choose columbia either because it's better or choose it for name recognition like they would Stanford. I think people realize that there is prestige outside of the ivy league.</p>
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<p>Hogwash, tripe, and blasphemy!</p>
<p>pittsburgh is horrible. there's a reason their cost of living is 1/4 of NYC's.</p>
<p>Skraylor, prefacing statements with 'um..' is an ass thing to do.</p>
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Skraylor, prefacing statements with 'um..' is an ass thing to do.
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<p>Um, do you have sensitive feelings?</p>