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<p>take columbia’s athletes out and I’m sure you’ll see the same result, just as many D1 teams and athletes at Columbia. And Stanford is notorious for being more holistic, any facts to back this up or just a feeling? this is every school’s reason for lower sat scores, Columbia just as much.</p>
<p>And SAT scores are really relevant for GS students aren’t they.</p>
<p>It’s one thing to argue that Stanford is overall a better university, which most here will generally agree with, but to say/agree that Columbia doesn’t hold a candle to Stanford sounds fairly insecure.</p>
<p>Finally on where people choose to attend college, telling someone to blindly choose Stanford because it’s God’s gift to humanity and because Columbia doesn’t hold a candle to it, is pretty counter-productive and makes you look ignorant. I think Columbia is better than Swarthmore, Brown and Cornell but I would never tell someone to attend Columbia over any of those schools because of prestige or because Columbia is a better university. Those schools do hold a candle to Columbia and Stanford or Yale as well.</p>