<p>I know it is impossible to define me in few sentences but here are some things about me:</p>
<p>I am not introverted but I am not that outgoing either. I'm like in the middle or slightly toward the outgoing side. I guess I get awkward with new people in the beginning but gets loud when I get to know them? Like in between the nerd and the party person.</p>
<p>I love watching concerts, musicals, and I am into fashion - I guess that fits me into New York?</p>
<p>I think this is a stupid question to ask but I just wanted to ask anyways coz I'm just worried that I might not fit in there. I heard there is a super lack of community so I am just concernd.</p>
<p>Plz help me out!</p>
<p>Columbia is known for its opinionated students.There are jokes about how Columbia students will protest anything as long as they can protest.</p>
<p>Other than that, Columbia’s student body is very similar to that of any other school. If you fit the New York City scene, you probably fit into Columbia as well.</p>
<p>As a few other posters mentioned, you actually rarely go off campus. For me, maybe 2 times a month but the average is around once a week. It’s not so much your interests which shape your New York City experience, but more so your ability to mature and socialize. There are many options in NYC and Columbia’s area is densely packed. You might run into a few students here and there but the sticking point is that there’s nothing to do on campus. There are few student lounges and there are few things to do in them. But, there are an incredible number of things to do in NYC so the social scene becomes fragmented.</p>
<p>Columbia is what you make of it. Think of it in terms of average. The average person at Columbia has fewer friends than students at peer institutions. The average person at Columbia knows fewer students and has much fewer venues to meet more Columbia undergraduates. The average person at Columbia is more intense and spends more time getting work done (we do have 25% more classes on average). The public party scene is centered in bars and there’s a vibrant party scene that you need to be invited to. Essentially, I think of it in terms of a snowball. The more people you know and the more outgoing you are, the more likely you have of having a good social experience (mind you, I’m not talking about community but dinner/going out/partying with pockets of people). If you know very few people, then you’ll have a hard time really going out or meeting more people. </p>
<p>Regardless, I feel that there’s little sense of community on campus for the average student and little to no school pride. People identify with a fraternity or student organization more so than they do to Columbia. Who can blame them? The administration provides little visible support to undergraduates, but at the end who can blame them either? Huge city, many opportunities, so who’s going to pay attention to a cheesy student council study break?</p>
<p>I want to major in engineering in college and i have been accepted in to NEU, DREXEL, RPI, but i did not apply to columbia and it is my favorite school of them all.</p>
<p>should i go to one of the before mentioned engineering schools, or go to Hofstra or Arcadia and do the Columbia Combined 3-2 plan with columbia to gain guarunteed admission to Columbia SEAS. </p>
<p>is it worth the risk of going to a mediocre school to gain a degree from Columbia SEAS?
is it worth giving up the “college experience” to get a mechanical engineering degree.</p>
<p>does going to columbia SEAS give me a better shot at grad school than NEU?</p>
<p>Thanks!,
will the other kids look down upon me for going to an easy school and then transferring, and will this affect my chances of making friends?</p>
<p>I have heard that the other kids will look down upon transfer students. </p>
<p>Do the Columbia College kids look down upon the kids in SEAS?</p>
<p>is it worth going if my chances of making friends are not good?</p>