<p>What do you guys think of transferring from Columbia College to Yale? Obviously there is a slight lay prestige/grad school placement boost, but such a move would come at the cost of friends/relationships made at Columbia as well as loosing access to the City and unfinished parts of the Core Curriculum, but would allow the student to get more that traditional college feel/experience life in the residential college system.</p>
<p>Thoughts</p>
<p>in terms of prestige, it’s not that big of a difference. Both of them are great schools and if you do well at any one of em, you can get into the same type if not better grad school.</p>
<p>Since social life is not a problem, then it does not matter because yale does not have that much more to offer. NYC has a lot of opportunities, so I think the lil bit more prestige that yale has balances out.</p>
<p>u should not worry bout placing in grad school, both of em are great schools that can take u to great grad schools.</p>
<p>gl</p>
<p>LOL, this is really funny</p>
<p>at columbia, its a lot easier to feel lost with 25k total students vs. yale’s roughly 13k, also the undergraduate social life at columbia is a bit more fragmented b/c everyone’s doing their own thing in the city, and i get the feeling the residential colleges really tries to force people to live/study/work together in a more tight knit community.</p>
<p>I think it would be silly to transfer unless you have a good reason (i.e. not a marginal difference in overall reputation). Also, you usually have to have a pretty good reason to get a transfer to Yale… most often a program here that you couldn’t do somewhere else.</p>
<p>yeah I kind of feel you, but I still think ur pretty pathetic, Harrison, as obviously the main reason from your post tells me that you want to transfer mainly for neligent “'prestige.”</p>
<p>1) Pettiness aside, I would say that if you want to have a career in the sciences or business, Columbia is heck a lot better than Yale. Columbia is only second to Wharton (Upenn), or maybe even most ideal place to be - wall street down the street yo, internships EVERYWHERE, go in a cafe and strike up a convo with goldman sachs CEO or something yo. But yale and new havens (where you can’t really do anythign except get shot, no offense)…</p>
<p>2) and science. I think if you do some googling or if ur familiar with science community, you’ll see that Columbia’s science is superb and massively expanding…I would say in the past decade or so, columbia professor’s prestige in terms of paper quality, paper publication in renowned scientific journals, nobel laureates, is only closely second to Harvard’s (in nobel laureates recently, it seems columbia has surpassed harvard…)…and president bollinger, as you know since u attend columbia, has gotten permission to expand new million dollar facilities in new york city. Yale can’t compete with that. Thus, not to bash Yale or anything, I can yale only stands as a name. Its capacity in terms of research is like rather empty, and in the coming years, I can easily see Columbia shooting past Yale</p>
<p>3) if your like one of those ppl who bases “prestige” on US news rankings or some crap like that, then rest assurred. Columbia shot up to number 4, and the reason it was so low before was because it had like only 90 percent of its freshmen class who ranked in top 10 percent of their high school classes (whereas yale has like 99)…and it went to 97, thus the reflected increase in ranking. Columbia’s SAT avg also seems a bit lower than HYP’s, but it could control that…(as a lot of 2400’s get rejected/deferred) so if it decides to give its SAT a boost, and continue to swing with the momentum it has right now, I would give it a few years (10 at most) before Columbia breaks into the traditional HYP category. </p>
<p>Disclaimer: Some of what has been said above is subjective, based on my own analysis. To people who don’t agree (f.x, if ur a yalie), please don’t have a heart attack. Thanks. Also, hoped that helped you to refrain from transferring Harrison lol. Columbia pride. Roarrrrrrrrrrr</p>
<p>and why are you replying to a thread that’s nine months old?</p>
<p>and as a prefrosh who’s not even a student yet? Running into a CEO at a coffee shop? Do you even know how big NYC is, and how far away Columbia is from the financial district? You’re not going to run into people from GS on their lunch breaks on campus, lol.</p>
<p>^^ I really don’t understand why people don’t check dates…</p>
<p>Let sleeping threads lie, no matter how long your intended response is.</p>