Posted on 03/13/2025 5:03:36 AM PDT by george76
Over the next month, high school seniors across the country will find out whether or not they got into their first-choice college. But for some students who had dreamed of going to Columbia University, acceptance suddenly doesn’t sound so hot.
“If you were to compare Columbia with virtually any Ivy League, virtually any other Ivy League will win [in terms of desirability with students] — and even non-Ivies like Duke, Emory and Washington [University] in St. Louis,” college admissions consultant and Command Education CEO Christopher Rim told The Post.
As President Trump has cut Columbia’s federal funding in an effort to squash chaotic pro-Palestine protests, applicants are weighing whether to accept an offer of admission from the school or to go elsewhere.
Hopefuls applied with the knowledge that the campus had been shut down by a pro-Palestine encampment last spring, but Rim says they generally didn’t expect things would still be so crazy.
“Lots of my clients thought things would be back to normal by now,” he said. “And by the time the school year starts in the fall, who knows? One thousand things can change again.”
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The non-stop drama has Rim predicting that many of the families he works with, “unless they have a very specific reason they want to go to Columbia,” will happily throw an acceptance letter aside for an alternative school.
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It won’t be long before Columbia and Barnyard become Hamass and Al Queda Headquarters in America. Islam! The Official Religion of the USA!
“Why...” is right! You’d have to pick a side or your year will be a living hell. Living hell either was as it’s Riots over education.
Normal for LIB/Leftist loons is NOT “normal” for for regular people living in a civil society. LIB/Leftist are seriously mentally ill sociopaths.
Pull Columbia’s accreditation. If the university is too stupid to correct this situation, then they shouldn’t be an accredited university.
In college, extracurricular activities used to be sports, clubs, associations and fun. That was supposed to give you a healthy break from studies.
Now, extracurricular activities include Bomb Making 101, Sedition and Violent riots 222, Advanced Studies in Jihad 342 and Seminars on Jew Hatred and Destruction of Property 443.
It would seem that many of today’s Ivy League “High Achievers” are to busy rioting, burning American flags and attacking Jewish students. There are now Post-Graduate Studies in Intimidation and Mafia style Blackmailing.
It sure is a good thing that Academic Staff no longer require that a student read a book from cover to cover anymore. Who has time for that when there is a flag burning riot 5 days a week on campus.
Shut this down before Jihad topples us like in Europe.
Trump cut funding. That is a start. Go after the Alumni now that gift/donate millions. In the end, the craven, greedy, indoctrination pimps will change their tune. They are the worst of the rich in their love of money.
The bigger problem with the Ivory League is that EMPLOYERS are wise to their DEI tactics and grade inflation, so more and more of them are simply writing off their ‘graduates’ now as useless snobs.
Even if they weren’t antisemitic and full of terrorists, why would you still want to go there being that they are so anti- Christian, anti-american?
Why should they be eligible for government funds if they have a majority foreign students. I think there should be a cap of 10% to qualify.
Go to a trade school.
Cut funding - done.
Cut their eligibility to participate in student loan programs
Pull 501 c3 status - make donations non tax deductible
Force Columbia to pay corporate federal income taxes
The school administration destroyed the school, let it be done.
People used to go to Columbia for the Western Civilization curriculum.
Sorry, it is Contemporary Civilization, or CC.
>>Among the authors currently required in the course are Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Christine de Pizan, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Bentham, Wollstonecraft, Tocqueville, J.S. Mill, David Walker, Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Du Bois, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Fanon, Arendt, Foucault, the Combahee River Collective, Barbara Fields, Sadiya Hartman, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Kyle Powys White, as well as the Bible and The Qur’an.
My stepson started at Columbia in 2024, just in time to have spring semester classes interrupted by protests, forcing g him to do classwork online, something he could do from anywhere. In his first month there he also was w witness to one of the subway murders.
This semester he is on leave of absence after informing his advisors that he’s definitely not gotten the education he’s paying for.
His next step, coming in the next couple of weeks since he’s been accepted to a similar program at a university closer to home, is to complete withdrawal from Columbia.
You want to study:
Critical Race Theory > Columbia
Lesbian > St Catherine, MN
Drugs and surfing > UCSC
Add to the list!
Good move
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