Prefrosh

Welcome Columbia Class of 2012 early decision admits and hopefuls! 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.

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 2012
• SEAS Class of 2012

There are 3 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

The undergraduate schools have different relationships to each other:

• the CC-SEAS Relationship
• the CC-GS Relationship

• Barnard College (BC), the all women school right across from Columbia University. It has an ambiguous relationship with the University. Though Columbia itself does not count Barnard as part of the University in any official calculation, it does consider former Barnard students as Columbia alumni as well. Barnard students receive a degree from Columbia University upon graduation.

Student life

• Student life, an overview
• First Year Housing
• Student Clubs | List of clubs that need articles
• Club sports
• On-campus dining locations
• Restaurants
• CUID
• New York City
• Annual Events
• The Bwog and Spectator, the two most read student publications
• CUMB : The Columbia University Marching Band

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

External links

• NSOP 2007 website
• Spectator Orientation Guide from 1998