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Finally, finally,
Why the change?
The graders liked how transparent Columbia is with its $7 billion, responsibly-invested endowment, and campus green groups got a nod for the eco-rep program and helping bring local food to John Jay. Columbia also scored points for joining the Mayor’s PlaNYC 2030 program for action on global warming (although PrezBo has yet to sign the President’s Climate Commitment, which sets different standards for carbon emissions reduction). Under the terms of that agreement, the school conducted an inventory of its carbon emissions, which hasn’t been released yet — look for some concrete numbers down the pike.
One school that won’t be taking its report card home to mom — the New School, which got an overall grade of D-, despite having launched a new environmental studies program this fall.
– LBD
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@hey I’ve met a few kids that wanted to go.
@What are my chances? 2270 SAT
Good GPA
Mad clubs
REMEMBER THOSE DAYS?
@jesus have i stumbled upon college confidential or something?
@Columbia Rox I don’t remember Spiderman, Sammy Sosa, Obama, McCain, Usher, Shakira, et al. visiting New Haven recently…Or James Franco doing anything there.
Obviously Columbia is better.
@hmm... I thought it was also about how Yale and Columbia are both kind of artsy but that Yale was the higher ranked school.
@question why is there a rivalry with/hatred of yale at columbia? (why THAT school?)
@agreed I think that rivalry is a fabrication created by bwog about some conservative/legacy kids getting rejected by Yale and being bitter about being here. It is a myth, I think; nobody I know wanted to go to Yale.
@well, now you know one. But I am happy I came to Columbia nonetheless. I also never heard of this supposed rivalry.
@EAL And with whom, might I ask, have you been hanging out? There are many of us here who didn’t get into Yale (and who really wanted to go), but we got into Columbia instead and we collectively make the best of it.
We don’t go quite as far as Dartmouth does, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQP738hnPY
And if we have a rivalry, it ought to be with Princeton or Penn.
@well i have to second #5 and #6 and say that i haven’t met anybody here who wanted to go to yale
@curious. Where did they want to go?
@Nilda Just to fill in — We have had a running discussion with the report card folks about the transportation issue. They do not really base the grade on how many or the percentage of people on campus who actually take public transportation or walk or bike, but rather on carpools and so forth organized by the institution. I know. We scored points for having intercampus shuttles. Also the ACUPCC allows schools to set their own timelines for reductions — we have a 10 year deadline. So expect to see more energy and climate initiatives as the year unfolds and we have less time to go….
@perhaps Because of bus shuttles and flying to school, such as offering carbon credits etc for travelling students and families.
@Transportation? Why only a B in transportation?
@yeah! that struck me as strange too…in terms of transportation, we’re probably the most environmentally friendly campus, besides maybe NYU.