<p>I swear it seems every Columbia student I know/on this forum use NYC as the reason Columbia owns. Its always, Its in NYC, thus Columbia trumps all in internships (But its Penn who is the number 1 university in students graduating with internship experience with a percentage of 90%, while Columbia is not EVEN in the top ten), second student life at Columbia IS DOMINATED by going out to NYC, students take twenty minute to get downtime Manhattan for the real big club scene, which means students are not only away from the school for extended periods, but students wont even be in the vicinity of the college as they enjoy their day, leading to the dead feeling that students sometimes feel at Columbia, not forgetting the lack of frat, sports scene or general non-NYC related activities Columbia students have a lack of school pride (This is not subjective this is fact, hoe much of the school pride is missing and how important it is to students is subjective) that disintegrate the social life to either taking trips to New York with your dorm mates or sitting on the only green area (or at lest the biggest and most used) that has Columbia students cling to having a campus (compared to NYU). And this air of superiority that Columbia students have been breathing since the new U.S news ranked them 4th really needs to be toned down. I always felt that Columbias previous position didnt do it justice and that it should be ranked closer with Penn and behind Stanford. And this 4th place ranking came by a meager point (out of 100) in the U.S news methodology data (the overall scores) to give Columbia its slight rank above Stanford and Penn, while that score was 5 points below Yale, thus showing Columbias placing is far from those top three (I should also note that Columbia overall score of 93 is only a slight increase from last year and shows that the slight difference in methodology or small inconsistencies in the universities may have lead to Columbias current ranking and not huge strides in the colleges improvements). Columbia also needs to establish itself as a 4-6 ranking school before it should generally be taken that Columbia is worthy of its rank (like when Caltech was ranked first for a year).</p>
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