Columbia University

The fifth oldest school in the United States, and a member of the prestigious Ivy League. Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College, and the university has switched locations three times within the island of Manhattan. Although Columbia was founded as a loyalist university, Alexander Hamilton, a Columbia alum, helped keep the university going after the Revolution, alongside his fellow Columbian, John Jay.

Columbia is currently located in the Morningside Heights Neighborhood of Manhattan, near Harlem. However, the school has completely gentrified the area, and the neighborhood has become as overpriced as the rest of New York. The University is also the largest private landowner in New York City, along with the Catholic Church, and the endowment is one of the largest in the nation. Tuition for undergrads averages to about $50,000 per year, and graduate tuition tends to be even higher.

The University's journalism school issues the Pulitzer Prize every year, and Columbia University professors and alums lay claim to the invention of FM radio, the early stages of the Manhattan Project, and a number of other advances. Furthermore, Columbia lays claim to more Nobel Prize winning affiliates than any other university in the world.

Undergraduate colleges include Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Columbia is also affiliated with the Seven Sisters school, Barnard College; however, most Columbia students do not refer to Barnard girls as Columbians, and undergrads from the two schools often hate that Barnard girls think they go to Columbia. Barnard degrees are certified by Columbia, and the schools' respective students often argue and complain about Barnard's relationship.

Columbia College's acceptance rate usually hovers below 9%, making the school one of the most exclusive universities in the world. Columbia students are usually left in the political arena, and the school is regarded as one of the most liberal ivies; however, most students at Columbia are usually spoiled rich kids. In contrast to other ivies, many Columbia students solely apply to Columbia, instead of applying to all of the ivies. Many students are lured to the school by the appeal of living in New York City.

Columbia's other schools include the prestigious Columbia law school, Teacher's College, and the School of Physicians and Surgeons. All Columbia graduate programs are ranked within the top 10 in the country, and the schools are incredibly difficult to get into.

Columbia alums include Barack Obama, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Livingston, Jack Kerouac, Theodore Roosevelt, Lou Gherig, Madeleine Albright, Eric Holder, Warren Buffett, Spiderman and many other world leaders in business, politics, medicine, and all other disciplines.

Guy 1: Isn't Columbia University the only Ivy in New York?
Columbian: Well, there is Cornell.
Guy 1: Like I said, isn't Columbia the only Ivy in New York?

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Columbia University

Ivy League school located in New York City.

Loves: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, illegal aliens, communism

Hates: Minutemen, ROTC, US military personnel

Columbia University's student body is really out of touch with the rest of the country.

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Dual BA Program Between Columbia University and Sciences Po

1) Backdoor to Columbia University.

2) Program for students rejected from Ivy League Institutions, and more generally top tier universities, as admission to this dual degree is relatively high.

3) Group of privileged and self-referential rich kids hanging out between themselves and not doing much in their first two years of college.

4) Four year, direct entry program with the two first years in France at one of Sciences Po's regional campuses, and the two final years in the United States at the undergraduate college for non-traditional students of Columbia University, the School of General Studies. Upon graduation, students are awarded the Sciences Po Bachelor of Arts and the Columbia School of General Studies (GS) Bachelor of Arts.

Friend from high school: How did you get into Columbia? Congrats!
Dual BA student: I got in through the Dual BA Program Between Columbia University and Sciences Po procedure.

Friend from high school: Oh, okay. Never mind.

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