Why do so many posted Columbia questions go unanswered in this forum?

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<p>Why do so many posted Columbia questions go unanswered in this forum?</p>

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<p>Probably because the same question gets asked six thousand times</p>

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<p>A mix of the site redesign, plus some of the site’s heaviest users growing out of it.</p>

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<p>One would think that a school with Columbia’s resources would want to have an admissions staffer and perhaps a student spend an hour a day responding to questions for candidates and parents. Just a suggestion, but if a student is down to Columbia and another top school and only the other school is more actively responding to questions, it seems like Columbia puts itself at a disadvantage. JMHO</p>

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<p>/\ Why would anybody take anything on this site seriously? It’s nothing but a bunch of extreme views fighting with each other over meaningless things.</p>

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<p>At times, you are right. You do have to sift through it. However, there is a lot of helpful information here too. Additionally, the people that come here tend to be parents and students who take education seriously. For many of us there is not a better place to go, so we come here.</p>

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<p>I suspect too that Columbia students may be just too busy to hang out on this site. From what I understand, Columbia has a pretty rigorous curriculum with the Core and departmental requirements. On average, most students carry 5 courses a semester. It may be one of the most rigorous schools in the country. And its in NYC, the city that never sleeps. Why waste time on College Confidential?</p>

<p>BTW - agree with previous poster. There is a ton of useful information on this site.</p>

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<p>Also students that were active on this site were using it as information pre-college. Now that they are in college, their need for this site has vanished. Thus they disappear.</p>

<p>As for having a staffer answer questions, perhaps with a 6% admission rate they do not feel the need to man a 3rd party website when they have their own website where prospective students can ask questions.</p>

<p><a href=“Contact Us | Columbia Undergraduate Admissions”>http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/ask/contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And yes, there is a lot of info here already.</p>