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Columbia University in the City of New York

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Super BrilliantPhysics
Worst education ever. Not surprisingly, payscale.com rates Columbia's graduates as the lowest paid ivy league institution.
3rd Year Female -- Class 2010
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Columbia, for all the name and grandeur, isSuper BrilliantMusic - Composition/Theory
Columbia, for all the name and grandeur, is not the place to go for music comp. They say it's the best for every major, and that's just not the case. The arts here are less than mediocre, and the school is cold in weather and personality. It's for the broken spirited and arrogant. People who are motivated to do loads of busy work but don't know why they are so motivated.
1st Year Male -- Class 1997
University Resource Use/ spending: A+, Education Quality: F
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I attended Columbia University as a high schoolBrightOther
I attended Columbia University as a high school senior in their Business Camp program that was hosted on the Campus. I've been in almost every hall and we stayed in the Dorms for a week there. The dorms were horrible.. in the rooms were a mess. I caught bed bugs there, even when I changed my sheets and pillows. Our bathroom door had a vent at the bottom which fell off and onto my foot, making it swollen. The other rooms were dirty also. I lost 2 dollars in their Soda Machine and I had to contact this man near John Jay cafeteria, he gave me a form to submit and I submitted it, and he then gave me an attitude and told me that I have to also do this and that, and when I fufilled his shitty requirements within 5 minutes he told me it would take a day because he has to go to the machine in the dorm, when he could have done it that instant. What a lazy ass. The black chick at the desk was just as bad. One of the teachers there during the summer told me to "Get the hell out of their way". Columbia has a GORGEOUS campus, and there are always people playing soccer or frisbee in the field near the library and hanging on the grass at night and might I add, they are extremely friendly.. but the staff is pissy/
1st Year Female -- Class 2013
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