Columbia University in the City of New York Top Questions

Columbia girls dislike Barnard girls because they are prettier and more friendly. Guys prefer Barnard girls to columbia girls. Everyone is smart

That we aren't a real ivy.

Some stereotypes about Columbia say that Columbia has no campus, pretty bad athletic teams, lame Greek Life, and a fair amount of nerdy students.

Liberal Hippies, anti-conformists and anti-establishment, everyone goes into finance, pseudo-intellectuals, big egos, guys wear tight pants and converse sneakers (eww)

Smart, lacking social life, City school,

People say that the Columbia boys have bad social skills and are generally reproachable and disagreeable to be around.

Stereotypes are that the student body is very diverse. There are a lot of students from the tri-state area.

there is absolutely NO social life here. students are awkward and unfriendly.

That they are nerdy, but from the stupider Ivy's

Columbia definitely has a reputation as one of the nerdier Ivies--we don't have the athletics of Princeton or the Greek life of Dartmouth, and the core (rather than distribution requirements that say, Harvard, has) casts Columbians as Homer-obsessed snobs preparing themselves for a lifetime of cocktail party chatter.