Posted on 03/31/2025 10:15:52 PM PDT by 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.
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Are NYU and Duke any better? Hasn’t this virus infected all?
I wouldn’t want my kids going there. Walking around with a mask on your mug and a pizza place tablecloth wrapped around your head while playing “Look At Me! I’m A Muzzie Terrorist” makes you look goofier than an idiot wearing a ‘I Go To College” sweatshirt.
This is kinda b-lls—t. Sure, maybe some minor cohort of high-flyer kids who got into Columbia and might otherwise have gone there are now picking Penn or Dartmouth or Brown or West Point or Notre Dame or whatever instead, BUT I’m sure Columbia still has no trouble filling its freshman class with willing and able students.
LOLOL...Columbia has become a fallback school!? Talk about falling from grace! An Ivy League school fell all the way to fallback. They did it to themselves. Let's see them dig themselves out of this hole.
And when their identities finally get exposed, they will be unemployable anywhere.
Of course, many of the masked agitators are not students at Columbia.
Some top students who got into other Ivy League schools might pass on Columbia. But Columbia will have no trouble filling their seats.
The prestige is gone.
You did it to yourselves.
I remember going to the campus in 1979. The campus was surrounded by an awful area of New York. I would not want to go there or send my kid there.
I have no particular admiration nor fondness for Columbia, but the supply of spaces at brand-name colleges/universities is severally constrained relative to the demand. Personally, I’d be thrilled if Columbia’s star has fallen so far that it can’t fill its seats, but, alas, it undoubtedly can and will. There’s no shortage of families that will pay full-freight to enroll their kid at Columbia.
Yes, probably. But not those that don’t want turmoil, violent distractions and bad publicity.
Columbia can fill up with more loony radicals bent on disruption rather than absorbing an education. Those that don’t want jobs, anyway.
Who would want to go to skool on Manhatten anyway?
“The campus was surrounded by an awful area of New York. I would not want to go there or send my kid there.”
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Everything those "protestors" learned was at Columbia. The school administration was proud of what they taught them, right up until the protestors used it on them.
Since the USAID funding has been cut, the taxpayers aren't going to pay for such anti-American attacks - and those parents certainly aren't going to pay for it with their own money.
Lower profile. columbia was on the front page a bunch of times
Who cares what the students think. Are the inmates running the asylum?
That’s right!
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