<p>Well, I went to the campus tour today...as well as the information session before the tour. The speaker said that the admission officers are not really looking for perfection yet rather they would like to see whether you would fit in as a Columbian....is this true, and if anyone knows...what is a typical columbian?</p>
<p>Nobody is perfect. No applicant's resume reads: 4.0 GPA, 1600 SAT, state champion in sports, doing world-class research, saving the world, etc..</p>
<p>However, most of the people accepted to Columbia have very good academics and very good extras.</p>
<p>There is no typical Columbian. What makes Columbia great is that there is no "typical" student. There are so many different types of people.</p>
<p>"What makes Columbia great is that there is no "typical" student.There are so many different types of people."</p>
<p>as it is with most schools.</p>
<p>There are plenty of schools where there is a "typical" student. Think USC, where all of the girls are essentially clones of one another. (Not that that's a bad thing!)</p>
<p>At most of the top schools, that is the case.</p>
<p>"There are plenty of schools where there is a "typical" student. Think USC, where all of the girls are essentially clones of one another. (Not that that's a bad thing!)"</p>
<p>"At most of the top schools, that is the case"</p>
<p>Columbia2002- You just love to make generalizations don't you? USC students are not clones of eachother. USC is ranked as one of the most diverse schools (even more so than schools in NYC like NYU or Columbia). Their division of schools (School of Cinema and Television, Annenberg School for Communication,etc) makes their student different. Personalities of film student, as you will see, are very different from students of the College of Letters, Arts, and Science. So please...don't make generalizations like that. If you do, might as well say NYU's girls are clones of eachother-- Stern kids and Tisch kids are just the same! (and they're not if you know anything)</p>
<p>And most top schools...this isnt true AT ALL. Brown, the most laid-back ivy league, is not like this at all. </p>
<p>If anything, Columbia is the school with a typical student. I can already describe a typical Columbia kid. Since everyone is to take the Core Curriculum, read the same books by the same author, study with the same professors in the same classes, they share more resemblances. AKA typical</p>
<p>lol id have to say i agree with miche</p>
<p>I should have said that the USC College students are all clones of each other.</p>
<p>Taking the same classes and curriculum doesn't mean that Columbia students are all the same. This -- "study with the same professors in the same classes" -- is totally untrue, anyway.</p>