“Does being a legacy help their chances of getting into Columbia?” It’s a question we get all the time from concerned alumni parents. Legacy admissions can be difficult to get to the bottom of. Many schools do not like to publish a lot of information about legacy admissions and Columbia is one of them. Every year we talk to admissions officers, go through data, and forecast admissions trends, and getting good information can be harder than it looks. So we wanted to break down some of the ins and out of legacy admissions at Columbia and try to answer some of our most asked questions.
Most Unique Programs at Columbia
Columbia is an elite school, and elite schools want to see you get specific on your applications. They want you to have developed a specific niche, have done your research, and know how your niche fits into their niche. We know, it’s a lot of niches. Like if your brother has a lot of daughters. Wait, that’s nieces. Gosh we’ve been looking at the Columbia site for too long.
Top 4 Columbia University Interview Tips
So you got an email from a random email address asking you to set up a Columbia Interview. What’s next? Many schools offer alumni interviewers for prospective students and Columbia is on that list. If you haven’t already done these types of interviews for other schools or are just super nervous about Columbia, these interviews can seem scary, but they don’t have to be. We wanted to break the Columbia interview down and share our top tips and tricks for how to approach it!
What is the Columbia Core Curriculum?
The is one of the most important things to Columbia. To quote them directly, “the Core Curriculum is the cornerstone of the Columbia College education.” So yeah, we’d say it’s a big part of their mission and something to learn about before applying. The goes all the way back to 1880, and recounts over a century of tweaks and changes they’ve made to this program. At a basic level, it’s a robust liberal arts foundation to your education, but it’s really a lot more wide-reaching than that. With classes like Contemporary Civilization and Frontiers of Science and requirements in Physical Education and Foreign Language, you can be certain you’ll leave Columbia with a wide breadth of knowledge and as they say, “rigorous preparation for life as an engaged citizen in today’s complex and changing world.”