<p>This isn't a thread about GS Vs CC/SEAS. I was just wondering how do older students feel at Columbia.</p>
<p>I'm going to be 22 (after 3 years in uniform) when I enter SEAS and I was wondering if there are special consederations like:</p>
<p>a. Do you get special housing?
b. Can you request that they not consider your parents in Financial Aid?
c. Anything else...</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Any older Columbia Students...?</p>
<p>I'm not aware of any students in CC/SEAS who are entering as a freshman when older than age 19. It was my understanding that the policy was, you can't have taken more than a year off since graduating high school, or else you're considered a GS candidate. Are you a grad student? Or have they created an exception for ex-military students to start as usual undergrad freshmen?</p>
<p>there is an exception for military service....a freshman on my furnald floor entered CC at the age of 21....there was also a girl in my Lit Hum class who entered CC at the age of 20 after doing a performing art for 2 yrs....so i guess its not just military service. </p>
<p>the only question i can answer is the first one....no, they do not get special housing. As far as i know, they get no special/different treatment at all.</p>
<p>I'm in a strange situation. I'm American so I applied as an American student and I applied the year after high-school. The agreed to defer for three years and I was told that I could go to SEAS a regular student.
Then they told me that if I started after 23 that they would move me to GS.</p>
<p>I was just wondering how older students get along. In the army we always were with younger people anyway and you rarely felt the difference. When i just got into the army i hung out with 21 and 22 year olds and i never knew the difference.</p>