<p>i'm probably the whitest person on this board, a recent graduate of SEAS, and have had my share of girlfriends. polandspring is 100% right, everyone makes fun of everyone else but no one means much by it. half the guys who make fun of barnard have barnard girlfriends, half the CC kids who make fun of SEAS lean on their SEAS friend for their math or science homework, half the SEAS kids who roll their eyes at frats show up to their parties, etc. almost nobody actually looks down on any group of people, unless those people attend Princeton =)</p>
<p>Well that's good, because I could just save the money and go to Berkeley...</p>
<p>Do you think there's a perception that changes from admiration to like, indifference when you say "I go to Columbia--the College" instead of "-- the engineering school"? Almost everyone agrees that CC and, say, Brown are comparable--but they wouldn't say about the same about SEAS.</p>
<p>No one really differentiates between SEAS and CC. If you go to either, both groups fall under the umbrella "Columbia," while Barnard girls go to "Barnard...(sometimes with "it's part of Columbia")" and GS students are referred to as "GS" students by everyone else.</p>
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No one really differentiates between SEAS and CC. If you go to either, both groups fall under the umbrella "Columbia," while Barnard girls go to "Barnard...(sometimes with "it's part of Columbia")" and GS students are referred to as "GS" students by everyone else.
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Not true. I'm in GS and refer to SEAS and CC kids as "nerds" and "brats" respectively (and they, in turn, refer to me as "the stupid, old, long-winded, and undeserving waste of space" -- they have the line down really well; I blame NSOP). If I included Barnard under that umbrella, it would be unfair to every other school in America that's not Columbia, though I have enjoyed a few classes over there.</p>
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No one really differentiates between SEAS and CC. If you go to either, both groups fall under the umbrella "Columbia," while Barnard girls go to "Barnard...(sometimes with "it's part of Columbia")" and GS students are referred to as "GS" students by everyone else.
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<p>ditto to windowshopping. within 5 minutes of meeting someone here, chances are one of you will ask "seas or college?"</p>
<p>'Not true. I'm in GS and refer to SEAS and CC kids as "nerds" and "brats" respectively (and they, in turn, refer to me as "the stupid, old, long-winded, and undeserving waste of space" -- they have the line down really well; I blame NSOP). If I included Barnard under that umbrella, it would be unfair to every other school in America that's not Columbia, though I have enjoyed a few classes over there.'</p>
<p>have you ever considered you were being stereotyped as a response to your stereotyping anyone else? If you call non-gs kids nerds and brats do not to be suprised for them to condescend you. Perhaps you are the 1/5000 person who sould not be paid any attention to?</p>
<p>CC and Brown are comparable because they are similar in coursework, engineering is completely different from the work they have at brown. Fu is compared with cornell, mit, ucal etc</p>
<p>CC/SEAS kids live together, and that has a lot to do with the result that any stereotyping between them is a sort of gentle, "sibling rivalry" kind of humor. Neither really looks down on the other.</p>
<p>The situation is arguably different with regard to Barnard/GS.</p>
<p>it's ok, fellas. polandspringg both a) won at the sat, and b) knows what it means to be from maine. let's cut him some slack. (and on that note, pearfire has bingo).</p>
<p>CC: damn i've got to finish this crime and punishment paper
seas: f***in physics problem set, have class in 5 hours, grrr
CC: haha loser, at least mine is interesting
seas: at least they know i don't need to take frontiers of science
CC: you have gateway buddy
seas: still can't do science.
CC: you stick to your problem sets, and i'll expand my mind
seas: say that once you're working for me, i'm getting the humanities too.</p>