<p>SEAS students has higher SAT scores and GPAs than CC students.<br>
Investment Banking firms prefer SEAS students ...
More % of SEAS students get into top medical schools ( Harvard Yale Johns Hopkins etc...) </p>
<p>Does CC students feel inferior ?</p>
<p>is someone mocking another topic?</p>
<p>Is what said above true?? Dont econ majors from CC go into Goldman Sachs/JP Morgans???</p>
<p>I have a qn here.. Can students at CC after completing the Core and their Major requirements take the rest of their courses at SEAS?</p>
<p>They sure has!</p>
<p>“Is what said above true?? Dont econ majors from CC go into Goldman Sachs/JP Morgans???”</p>
<p>econ majors from the college don’t really have an advantage (they’re studying econ not business afterall), if they study only econ, the lack of rigorous quantitative training often excludes them from a few wall street jobs. Econ-math majors do well. Seas students get a very quant heavy education (and tend not to be too nerdy, as compared to other engineering schools) which fits in well wall street jobs and culture.</p>
<p>“I have a qn here.. Can students at CC after completing the Core and their Major requirements take the rest of their courses at SEAS?”</p>
<p>-yes, you can also do the 3-2 or 4-1 programs where you get a BS from seas and a BA from the college in 5 years, some do it in 4.</p>
<p>and no, seas students don’t have a superiorty complex.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot…</p>
<p>I know this has been discussed a lot.. but can CC students easily transfer after first year to SEAS?</p>
<p>I asked that not because I think that SEAS students have a superiority complex</p>
<p>" but can CC students easily transfer after first year to SEAS?"</p>
<p>yes.</p>
<p>SEAS does not place better than Columbia College at anything…
Dunno where you’re getting your info from.</p>
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<p>Do you know of ANYONE who has done a BS/BA in 4 years? It’s pretty easy to graduate in 3 years if you have advanced standing and overload, but I found that scheduling issues (overlapping times, classes offered only once a year) made it prohibitively difficult to do both degrees in 4 years.</p>
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<p>SEAS students also do just as well as CC students in liberal arts / Core classes.</p>
<p>SEAS also has 300 students.
If you take the top 300/1000 CC students, I’m sure they will have commensurate scores/GPA’s.</p>
<p>^this has nothing to do with anything, a smaller school shouldn’t be compared to the top of a larger one. The top 1000 students at U-mich each year could be comparable to princeton’s graduating class, so should you then choose u-mich over princeton? - it doesn’t tell you anything meaningful about u-mich, other than if you were to miraculously immerse yourself in only the top 1000 students there you get a princeton like peer group?</p>
<p>while at seas or at CC on average you meet the average student so it makes sense to compare averages, and when judging a student body, and how competitive it is/ the education it receives - again the average person is what should be compared.</p>
<p>seas –> quantitative thinking ability which is prized by finance,ibanking firms.
cc –> only some majors have that kind of training</p>
<p>so in that sense there’s an advantage in placing for SEAS</p>
<p>they are both Columbia and they are both some of the best in the world.. does it matter who’s better?</p>
<p>No but SEAS students tend to have a far more rigorous education, which shows devotion, and the ability to work endless hours, which is the key to working some wall street jobs, Especially IBanking where even first year analysts may work 70-80+ hours a week. I believe that is not taken into the equation enough. SEAS students deal with numbers&figures which is what wall street is all about. You can’t expect an econ major, or say an english major to look at stocks and such and analyze them in the same way as SEAS students do, whose training in engineering puts them in a better position to analyze the market. </p>
<p>Another thing to take into consideration, NOT EVERYONE wants to be an Investment Banker, plenty of people are unwilling to dive head first into such a demanding job, where most are doomed to fail after putting so much time and effort into engineering programs, which require a enormous course load, and usually summer classes, just to graduate within 4 years. </p>
<p>Take into account networking as well. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. If you have had a substantial interest in banking, have completed internships, and established contacts in the business, opportunities may come knocking on your door, if you have performed well, and kept a high GPA.</p>
<p>^there are several i-banking jobs open to econ majors and even english majors, they just might not be quant heavy. Consulting firms which are highly desirable, take all sorts of majors. and going into i-banking isn’t a matter or prestige, it’s a matter of choice, if someone chooses not to go into it, it doesn’t mean they weren’t capable of doing it. sure in general i-banking is a really tough lifestyle but to be successful anywhere you’re probably going to have to work your @ss off.</p>
<p>Hmm.. I don’t know whether I’ll get into Columbia or not.. but whatever happens and where I end up.. I am planning to double major in Physics and Economics (doable at Columbia?).. Would that be attractive to prospective IBanking (one of my options) employers? Would finishing a double major in Physics and Econ show that I can endure as much work as those engineering majors?</p>
<p>^yes to all of the above.</p>