<p>Where do you tell people you go to school when they ask? </p>
<p>CC Students: Columbia College is sometimes thought of as "one of those other Columbia's (Chicago, South Carolina), so I would think you'd all just say Columbia, correct?</p>
<p>SEAS students: Columbia or Columbia Engineering?</p>
<p>I don't think anyone says "Columbia College" or "Columbia Engineering." That's a mouthful. You'd say "CC" or "SEAS" if someone on campus asked you which school at Columbia you're in.</p>
<p>For me, I generally do the "I went to school/college in New York" and wait for the follow-up. If you're trying to impress someone / want to them to remember something, it's more effective for them to have to elicit the information in two questions than one. And if it's someone who I'm making smalltalk with, 1) it's an easy way for me to see if they're even paying enough attention to ask the follow-up, and 2) it's a way to keep a distance. Also, it doesn't have the same pretentiousness and aloofness as "I went to school in Cambridge" or "I went to school in New Haven."</p>
<p>I'm not talking about within Columbia/when they ask you what specific school.
Just in general when people ask you things like:
"Where are you going to school next year?"
"Where did you go to school?"
etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, "Columbia College" or "Columbia Engineering" aren't used; it's too long. For where are you going to school, say "in new york" or "Columbia"</p>
<p>(I'll be going to Columbia College)</p>
<p>I second what Columbia2002 says. It's usually a "Columbia" and if the person looks confused I'll clarify that it's in Manhattan/NY.</p>
<p>I've only had one person mistake Columbia for Colombia this year.</p>
<p>the past few weeks i've been applying to jobs and only about 3 ppl knew what CU was, 2 thought colombia, 1 thought chicago, and 4 thought south carolina ~_~</p>
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<p>This has only happened to me once...I played along and made up some great stories about the paramilitaries who kept campus safe from the druglord guerillas in the nearby jungle.</p>
<p>I say I'm going to Columbia for Engineering.</p>
<p>The general public doesn't seem to know about the school at all. Which is more popular- upenn or columbia?</p>
<p>depends on where in the general public you are at. in any high-demand profession, i guarantee everyone is familiar with columbia. your grandmother from south dakota, probably not. but everyone in the new york area, especially, has much respect for the place in my experience. any lawyer, doctor or businessman of note, anyone involved in international affairs, any scholar...</p>
<p>basically, don't worry about someone whose opinion matters to you not having heard of your college.</p>
<p>Columbia is definitely more well known than Penn, and even out of the few people that know Penn, most won' realize it's an Ivy.</p>
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<p>Hey, don't bag on grandma!</p>
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<p>If the opinion of dumb chicks who dig the H-bomb -- but may think Columbia is a foreign country -- matters to you, then maybe worry ;)</p>
<p>I usually say Columbia; every once in a while, though, I do say New York. I've never gotten Colombia, the country, but I've gotten way more South Carolinas than people who actually know Columbia. Around here though, New York trumps Columbia everytime. As soon as you mention New York, Columbia is left by the wayside, and the conversation has permanently shifted.</p>
<p>Yeah, Columbia has a beautiful, but unfortunate name. It's not as unique as many of the other ivies and happens to rhyme with a major exporter of cocaine.</p>
<p>People joke that Penn gets confused with Penn State.</p>
<p>Just say you go to Columbia. Do people say they go to "Yale College" or just "Yale"?</p>
<p>^Not completely on topic, but I do know a Penn student who says he goes to "Penn - the Ivy league school," nine times out of ten.</p>
<p>I went to an admitted students' event at Harvard Law. All the Harvard undergrad people were quick to say they went to "Harvard College" or "the College". All the Yale people said "I was educated in New Haven". Verbatim. Seriously.</p>
<p>Well I did the same thing at CLS's admit day. Wasn't sure what to say- so I said "right here" or "across the street." The New Haven thing is funny though.</p>
<p>If you're CC'07 and a HLS admit there's a slight chance i know you.. major?</p>
<p>anyone know a CC'07 HLS admit with the initials PS? ;)</p>