Columbia University faces new trouble as top admissions consultant says students won’t accept offers — ‘brand has been tarnished’

NY Post ^ | 3/31/25 | Rikki Schlott

[Libloather]

College acceptance letters are rolling in — and, suddenly, some applicants don’t even want to hear from Columbia.

An admissions consultant who helped 10 clients get accepted to the Ivy League school’s Class of ’29 told The Post that not a single one plans to attend.

“This would not have been the case three years ago,” Christopher Rim said. “The actual brand has been tarnished.”

As for September’s incoming freshman class, Rim said: “I think it’s going to be the students who didn’t get in anywhere else.”

This comes as the school has mishandled pro-Palestinian protests and the Trump administration has threatened to pull some $400 million in federal grants.

On Friday, interim university president Katrina Armstrong resigned her post amid allegations that she had told the federal government she would implement a mask ban for campus protests — but privately promised faculty it would not happen.

“There’s so much up-and-down craziness, and Columbia doesn’t seem stable at all,” said Rim, who is the CEO of Command Education.

Instead, he explained, his clients who were accepted to Columbia during this year’s regular admissions cycle are headed to schools like NYU and Duke.

[BobL]

The usual Leftist response to people not doing as told is to FORCE THEM to do as told. For example, particularly in Europe, if they don’t vote as required, the governments there simply ELIMINATE the candidates.

In the case of Columbia, perhaps filing lawsuits against those that don’t attend, due to Columbia having to waste their time reviewing their applications.

[BobL]

“Given the ding to the school’s desirability, Rim predicts it might become easier and easier to get into.”

Maybe easier to get into, but when at least half of the hiring managers in the country automatically BLACK LIST the school, is it really a good idea to go there.

[Ex-Con777]

> I remember going to the campus in 1979. <

Then you must remember seeing that charismatic community organizer who no one else seems to remember seeing at Columbia.

EC

[irishjuggler]

“There are lots of other snob schools.”

There are more snobs than there are spaces at snob schools.

[Salman]

Columbia has been a ruling class terrorist service academy for over a generation. So are the other Ivies. And not just the Ivies.

[magooey]

theyre upset about losing their middle east visa student potentials... American kids they dont care about.

Then let Columbia set its main campus in the Middle East and close down the one in NY City. Perhaps a small branch campus with a building or two. If they are so insistent on being a racist anti Semitic institution they would be happier in a more appropriate part of the world.

[sit-rep]

agreed... and then let Hamas set up HQ in the basement!