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<p>Nice malapropism.</p>
<p>I was stuck in between CMU and Columbia for a while, thanks for the insightful review of Columbia SEAS.</p>
<p>I do still have a few questions, how hard is it to live in NYC, and if there are any graduates who continued engineering as a profession, rather than switching to med/business schools or finance, how did a Columbia SEAS degree look on your application to top engineering graduate schools (MIT, Berkeley, Caltech)?</p>
<p>^Living in NYC has been enjoyable, easy, convenient, affordable and entertaining.</p>
<p>I haven’t applied to grad programs, but a couple of my friends have made it to good grad programs: Columbia Mech/EE –> Berkeley for EE, Columbia Applied Physics –> Cornell for EE, Columbia applied math –> NYU applied math.</p>
<p>Finally shaheiruddin: this year admissions for Columbia SEAS ED were ~ 28-29% with RD being ~11-11.5% - overall was 13.36%.</p>
<p>this was a really helpful thread.
it has pretty much confirmed my decision to apply ed to columbia seas.</p>
<p>bump bump, bumpity bump.</p>
<p>The admission you report is wrong:
You can go to Columbia spectator to see the real admission rate for 2010:</p>
<p>The admit rates for both schools have decreased, which makes the new class of 2014 the most selective yet. The College accepted 8.30 percent of its applicants, down from 8.92 percent last year and 8.71 percent the year before. SEAS accepted 13.36 percent of its applicants this year, down from 14.42 percent last year and 17.6 percent the year before.</p>
<p>just typed seas and cc’14 more selective than ever at google you will see.
In addition, Columbia is using common app next year , so ad rate will be even lower.</p>
<p>SEAS is a great school for engineering for those who are interested. There is no hostility between CC and SEAS students. Most students tend to befriend those in the same college though. And it’s true that the acceptance rate for SEAS is higher than CC. This year, the acceptance rate in general has decreased.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for SEAS is a few percentage points higher (I think 9% vs 6% this year) but the SEAS applicant pool is much more self-selected than the CC pool, so it’s a wash. Remember, though, that SEAS has higher incoming SAT scores than CC students. Ten years ago, there was a major difference between the quality of applicants to each school. Now, not so much.</p>
<p>If you do a 3/2 CC + SEAS degree, what part of the CC undergraduate curriculum are you jettisoning, and at SEAS do you still get to take the 1st year class in ‘real world’ design?</p>
<p>Do you decide 3/2 after you’ve matriculated at CC - e.g. when declaring your major?</p>
<p>Does SEAS have it’s own admissions office, or are all apps handled through CC admissions?</p>
<p>For CC legacies, does that factor into only an app to CC and not SEAS?</p>
<p>blown away by the amount of info…um, is anyone familiar with the minor in architecture engineering stuff?</p>