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Roger Simon's avatar

The irony in all this is that Jews may have made Columbia, not the other way around. Many amazing Jews attended the school from Milton Friedman to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In literature there was another Ginsberg, with an e, Allen, not to mention J. D. Salinger, Herman Wouk, Isaac Asimov... the list goes on and on. Nobelists in the sciences as well. I almost attended Columbia myself way back when but opted for Dartmouth because Columbia was less than a mile from my father's medical office. Time to grow up. The truth is by now the whole Ivy League is useless. Don't go, even to Harvard where they are now giving free tuition to families under $150K. Their endowment is so large they could have done it years ago but didn't Why not? Screw them all the horses they came in on. Go to trade to school.

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Scottrj's avatar

I really enjoy your writing and look forward to each new essay. I would venture a guess that you were a brilliant writer long before you went to Columbia. And that you gave more to Columbia than Columbia gave to you.

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