Prefrosh

Welcome Columbia Class of 2011! You've clearly stumbled across our nascent Columbia Wiki, which is a work in progress. Numerous editors and contributors are working hard to populate this wiki with a number of useful, insightful, informative, and generally helpful information. While we're focusing on the basics now, we'll also have specifically Pre-frosh oriented material coming soon.

For now please post questions on the talk page if you don't find what you're looking for. An editor or contributor will do his or her best to answer your query with our collective knowledge as soon as we find time. See you at Days on Campus!

To get started, you might want to read some advice for prefrosh.

Things to Learn

• School songs
• Traditions
• Symbols

• CC Class of 2011
• SEAS Class of 2011

There are 3 or 4 undergraduate schools at Columbia:

• Columbia College (CC), the main one where you can study almost any major
• School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), the engineering school which is fairly well integrated with CC
• School of General Studies (GS), the school for transfers and other students with unusual backgrounds
• Barnard College (BC), the all women's college, which is sometimes called the 4th undergrad school

The undergraduate schools have different relationships to each other:

• the CC-SEAS Relationship
• the Columbia-Barnard Relationship

Student life

• Student life, an overview
• First Year Housing
• Clubs List 1 | Clubs List 2 (Political, Religious, and Activist Groups)
• Club sports
• On-campus dining locations
• Restaurants
• CUID
• New York City
• Annual Events

Pre-arrival and arrival

• Acceptance contract
• Online application for first year housing and a meal plan
• Apply for COOP
• Sign housing contract
• Days on Campus
• What to bring
• Getting to Columbia
• COOP
• Move-in
• Convocation
• NSOP
• Classes start!

Academics

• Advising
• Textbooks
• Course Selection
• Core Curriculum
• Literature Humanities, University Writing, Frontiers of Science