<p>Yup. One of 14 did. Many of the rest were from second-tier public institutions - Brooklyn College, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Reading, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you, everyone who replied! I’m starting to feel better about the whole situation… at least I have a lot of time before I have to put down a deposit. </p>
<p>I’m going to try to arrange to spend a weekend or something like that on both campuses before May rolls around, hopefully that will help me make up my mind. </p>
<p>again, thanks. I really appreciate the advice.</p>
<p>Go to Columbia if they give you enough money.</p>
<p>if you don’t go to Columbia, you will always regret it. </p>
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<li>People will assume Pitt is the best school you got into (THATS LIFE)</li>
<li>You will have far worse job oppurunities
theres much more, but if you are not smart enough to make the right decision here than I have no clue why Columbia accepted you</li>
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<p>Bescraze, you are a total idiot, I don’t even know why you are posting on this forum</p>
<p>It seems like you are comparing Columbia to a community college for Pitt. Pitt is a top 60 school in the US whether you accept that or not and job opportunities are VERY good. Heck, even Pitt’s medical school is better overall than Columbia. </p>
<p>It is also not uncommon for people to go to a public school for undergrad and then a prestigious private school for graduate studies so the fact that people will even try to guess at what schools you got into is ridiculous.</p>
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<p>This is the single most pretentious, asinine, most clueless post I’ve ever read in my life.</p>
<p>diontechristmas: don’t be too hard on bescraze. He has his hopes set on Columbia, so his Columbia opinions are largely fan-boy in nature. And there’s nothing wrong with that, so long as a poster makes his/her emotional preferences known.</p>
<p>I on the other hand attended one of his backups (and I’ll give him credit that his backups are higher rated than Columbia) a long time ago and can see with a little more perspective.</p>
<p>Well for what it’s worth, my mother attended Columbia (cum laude) and married my father who attended the same ‘third tier’ (yawn) state school I attend, and my father is much, much more successful than my mother, so I find Bescraze’s post to be a bit misguided and insulting.</p>
<p>‘successful’ is an interesting term…</p>
<p>Success in business outside the bulge brackets/ some hedge funds/ some consulting firms has so little to do with degree pedigree that it amazes me people think it is determinative, or even relevant.</p>
<p>Successful in business outside of bulge/iBanking/hedge funds, although he’s doing some consulting now.</p>
<p>Re #28
Obama went to Columbia along with a bunch of other leaders so I don’t get the point about your parents. I thought Columbia went coed only 15 years ago so how did your mom go?<br>
If you get CU I would go there</p>
<p>Well Barnard, but she took classes at Columbia as well. It was really all the same.</p>
<p>I think the major point of consideration is - Prestige or Finances? Which is more important to you?</p>
<p>rs_ong – I can’t agree with that. To me the major consideration is fit… .where will a person be more likely to thrive? Rankings or prestige have nothing to do with that.</p>
<p>Go where you’ll feel happy.</p>
<p>I am sorry if people got mad at me for saying the truth even if it may be politically incorrect. I doubt anyone here can deny that a Columbia grad has far more job opportunities than a pitt grad. I never said Pitt was a awful school or any nonsense like that, just simple facts. I also never said you couldn’t be successful as a pitt grad, since I know people who attended crap schools and went on to make fortunes. They are the exception though. I also stated that people would think Pitt is the best school he got into, because thats how people think now a days. 90+% of the time people attend the best school they can get into. For the record my answer to this question would be the same for any top 15 school, this has nothing to do with Columbia. Now feel free to go back to flaming</p>
<p>What we’re your stats that you got a full ride from PItt? are you instate?</p>
<p>People have this arguement alot on CC, full ride at a top 50/60 school or an expensive Ivy League or top 10 school. Just yesterday I saw someone who got a full ride from Tulane or Johns Hopkins. If you plan on going to grad school, you might want to save your money and maybe go to an Ivy for that, that way you can still say “I went to an Ivy!” Also, it seems like you seem to like Pitt more, and want Columbia more so for the reputation and prestige than anything. If it really is that close, it seems like a better idea to go to Pitt, and that way if you don’t like it, at least it didn’t cost anything to make that mistake. If you go to Columbia and don’t like it, its going to cost $50,000 to realize you hate it.</p>
<p>Our student chose Pitt over Cornell mostly because of finances. Unemployment has since hit our family so we are thanking our lucky stars for that choice. Student is doing very well after 2 years. Lots of interaction with professors, research opportunities, great living situations…Can go to Cornell or wherever for graduate school. Has full tuition OOS scholarship at PITT.</p>
<p>OP: a little jealous of your tuition plus room and board offer. I thought that was for Chancellor’s only and interviews for those are only being scheduled now. Is your a different scholarship?</p>