Talk:Columbia College of Columbia University

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Do we need all this departmental information? mat334 | talk 09:59, May 20, 2005 (UTC)

  • Should I take that as a no? OK, I'll delete it then. mat334 | talk 15:43, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

I culled the alummni from this site: http://www.drownout.com/columbia-alumni/

I think a long list of alumni is highly relevant for this page, though. For one thing, that other list includes people from other parts of the university, not the College. For another, this wiki entry is really short and seems written by some goofy current students. I wanted to add a little sense of history. Aroundthewayboy 15:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


I removed the statement "Columbia College therefore has the third lowest acceptance rate in the Ivy League after Yale and Harvard, in that order" from the end of the opening paragraph. It is factually correct but is basically about Yale (and, to a lesser extent, Harvard) rather than Columbia. It reads as if a Yale booster added it to promote his alma mater. Such information is perfectly appropriate in Yale's own entry but not those of other colleges.

Langston Hughes did not attend Columbia College. He attended the school of the mines, and then dropped out after one year.

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