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<p>I think we were talking about undergraduate alumni, so in that case, Wharton/Nebraska gets credit.</p>
<p>No offense to Columbia kids: but this is exactly why I didn’t choose it. Its almost like they have to justify a worse college experience by thinking they do better on wall street.</p>
<p>^I think they justify a worse college experience with NYC. </p>
<p>I’m guessing the OP chose where to attend by now, and I doubt it will make a direct difference for future banking jobs which school he chooses</p>
<p>^I think being in NYC is one of the things that makes it a worse college experience.</p>
<p>^I agree that it leads to a worse college experience, but NYC >>>> the average college town. People choose Columbia over other Ivies and most of them are not going into finance. NYC is really the only way I could justify going to Columbia over any other Ivy.</p>
<p>Honestly is NYC really that great for college? There is no community and so many distractions. I choose Brown BECAUSE I thought the city would change my college experience - not in a way I wanted. NYC is unlike other cities, its overwhelming.</p>
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<p>NYC isn’t going to be great for college if you’re not prepared for it. It’s true that a community unity isn’t really present but most kids who choose to study in the city know what they are in for. The kids who go to colleges in major cities aren’t always looking for the typical college experience(green quads,frat parties,etc.), they are usually looking for a different kind of college experience.</p>
<p>I do think that students are captivated by the allure of New York (Gossip Girl, etc) without really understanding its negatives. Heck had my older brothers (who both spent time in NYC, one working, one interning) not warned me so aggressively I might have not realized its impact on college life. In my class (high school) we have a couple students going to Columbia, I think they are really into the prestige, but don’t understand fully what they are getting into. Same goes for NYU.</p>
<p>I agree with you admitone. Going to NYC for college is like attending a commuter school, albeit it’s a little better at Columbia than NYU because Columbia has a more defined campus.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^ commuter school? please be quiet, you have no idea what youre talking about.</p>
<p>Has anyone here making these negative comments about Columbia actually attended the school?</p>
<p>I don’t think it is fair for you all to make all these generalizations when you have no idea what going to columbia is like.</p>
<p>You can’t really enjoy New York City as an undergrad until maybe senior year. You’re too young to be allowed into bars or enjoy the clubbing scene. You’re too poor to afford to eat in nice restaurants and shop in the good NYC clothing stores. You lack the cultural knowledge and insight to appreciate world-class art museums like the MoMA and the Guggenheim. You’re probably immature to enjoy a quality Broadway show or opera performance.</p>
<p>I suppose you could go to a Yankees game unless you want to experience the New York Knicks in all their glory.:rolleyes:</p>
<p>All of the clubs near Duke are 18+, the food is cheap off-campus, there are plenty of on-campus parties as well as subsidized musical/theatrical performances, you have Duke Basketball in the Spring/tailgate in the Fall and the girls wear sundresses instead of thick wooly coats for most of the year.</p>
<p>I simply don’t understand how Columbia has a slight edge over Duke with cross-admit yield. Oh yeah…ITS AN IVY IN NEW YORK CITY!!!<em>bows in stupified awe and admiration</em></p>
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<p>wow im sure the thousands of students at columbia , nyu and other school in NY are having a horrible experience. And yea theres nothing to NYC other than clubs. </p>
<p>End sarcasm</p>
<p>Just choose the college u like. Id go with columbia coz i like their ORFE program in their SEAS but thats just me</p>
<p>“You lack the cultural knowledge and insight to appreciate world-class art museums like the MoMA and the Guggenheim. You’re probably immature to enjoy a quality Broadway show or opera performance.”</p>
<p>Made me chuckle. </p>
<p>Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Who’s to say that others (aside from yourself, perhaps) don’t have the insight to appreciate world class art? And I wasn’t aware that a certain level of maturity was required simply to enjoy opera and theatre.</p>
<p>btw i took a course in my freshman year about art and when i visited MoMA I realized that I had learned s**t in that course lol. You just dont need to be a extremely stupid to enjoy art. Sure you wont be analyzing and appreciating its quality as deeply as somebody who actually creates art for a living, but the same logic can be applied to anything at all, even the simpsons ;p</p>
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<p>You mean Princeton?
[Operations</a> Research and Financial Engineering | Engineering for Business, Commerce and Industry](<a href=“http://orfe.princeton.edu/]Operations”>http://orfe.princeton.edu/)</p>
<p>Columbia has IEOR
[Department</a> of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research](<a href=“http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/]Department”>http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/)</p>
<p>Neither program gives you an edge for Investment Banking, proper. Definitely gives you a good background in hedgefund architecture and trading strategies.</p>
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<p>^This guy is undoubtedly a Columbia reject</p>
<p>^I’d guess he was rejected from every college in the top 20 except Duke the way he talks about other schools.</p>
<p>no actually Columbia DOES have an operations research program with a financial engineering concentration for undergrad too. I was in a lac b4 so i was considering doing 3+2 with that.
I doubt this wouldnt give u an edge or some kind of advantage for ibanking. Certainly better than econ.</p>
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