Prefrosh

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1 Things to Learn
2 Student life
3 Pre-arrival and arrival
4 Academics
5 External links

[edit] Things to Learn

Columbia has 3 undergraduate schools of its own and 1 affiliated college:

Columbia College (CC), a coeducational liberal arts college of arts and sciences.
School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), the engineering and applied sciences school, which is strongly integrated with CC
School of General Studies (GS), the school for "nontraditional" students whose education has been interrupted and other students with unusual backgrounds, including students of JTS and UTS. GS students are generally older than those in CC and SEAS, have life experiences to match, and live in off-campus housing.
Barnard College (BC), the women's college across the street from Columbia. It has an ambiguous relationship with Columbia and the three undergraduate schools. Barnard is an independent school in partnership with Columbia, and it has its own administration, faculty, student body, and campus. Columbia and Barnard students may take classes on both campuses, eat in each other's dining rooms, and be part of each other's clubs and sports teams.

The undergraduate schools have different relationships to each other: