You are desrcribing Columbia’s School of General Studies, not Columbia College. Columbia College is a traditional four year college founded in 1754 as King’s College. Columbia College is an Ivy League school and those attending it consider it to be the peer of — or superior to Harvard, Yale or Princeton.
Yes, you are correct. I apologize for the error.
If 0bama had gone to Columbia School of General Studies, could he have graduated with a B.A. in Political Science, without being known by the more traditional students in the School of Arts and Sciences? And if he did go to the School of General Studies, is the admissions standards such that 0bama would be ashamed of admiting the truth?