^ She’s not first gen though, “Her mother holds graduate degrees from John Hopkins University and MIT.”
Sounds like Columbia was just a bad fit, though she was clearly having some issues that counseling might have helped. She was a sophomore living with students who had graduated and were already working, apparently.
http://nypost.com/2016/05/29/why-i-had-to-escape-my-ivy-league-life-and-disappear/