<p>I am REALLY interested in columbia, and I just have a question about the types of people that are there. I currently live in a town that is like 100% preppy, WASPs who only look at you like you're worth something if you play a sport (I don't, btw). So, I don't want the same thing at college? </p>
<p>I figure there's gonna be a good amount of diversity. but do you think there are a lot of "snobs" at yale. And do sports completely dominate society?</p>
<p>Also, is there a good party scene?</p>
<p>Thank you for all your help!!</p>
<p>Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Brown and Northwestern will all have some students with the personality type you mention, as well as other students who don’t fit that profile.</p>
<p>to adjust searchlight’s post. columbia is probably the most ‘democratic’ of places. in the sense that you can really find a pocket of just about anyone doing just about anything, with very little insularity. whereas yale and harvard have many students similar to columbia, there is a campus ethic that does create more of a normalized behavior.</p>
<p>columbia is slightly different to this degree - i mean in your 4 years at columbia, you will see everything and anything, and often don’t have to venture far for it to be obvious. i do argue and argue fervently that diversity in its broadest sense is far more palpable at columbia than elsewhere. it is part of being in a truly urban school where the university and the city are coextensions of each other. (folks disagree with me on that fact because it is easy to believe columbia to be a bubble, but you haven’t been in a bubble until you’ve been to providence or cambridge; comparatively it is far more semi-permeable.)</p>