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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

studying literature and computer science. then for my mfa i want to do the creative writing program they have.

sweet. that's an unusual combo, but familiar to me-- i have an m.a. in literature but work with computers,;and my undergrad was in biology & math-- ha ha ha.

anyway, hm, here's something you may not know-- generally, it is preferred that you go to a different school for you graduate program. not sure why, but it's kind of... frowned upon? they'll accept you, but people tend to think it's worth less. im saying generally. don't ask me to understand stuffy academics, i'm simply a reporter here...

so, if you want to go to the MFA program at columbia, you could go to a different undergrad school. however-- maybe it's too soon to think about gradschool, stick to the college of your dreams for now & in 5 years you'll have a different perspective.

btw, i have a friend who did the columbia MFA in a year-- he's a journalist & works for a very large newspaper, & is working on some book in his spare time. spare time! is there such a thing?

anyway not sure what your mfa concentration is going to be on, but iowa (yes, iowa) has a famous mfa program, and then utexas @ austin has a very unusual one as well, more geared towards professional writers. http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mcw/

oooh! looked what i found! ofthen these rankings are shit, but some times they mean something you know? these are old anyway but here you go:
http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/~rouzie/...University.htm

what else what else-- oh yes- very important. i hope you're not disappointed with the study of literature in college. the first thing those fuckers will try to teach you is that there is no such thing as "literature". then they will try to make you read stupid "critical theories" and value them as superior as the books they refer to. it's an excuse to practice bad philosophy with a literary excuse. it's quite quite sad. but since i'm warning you, you'll have time to figure it out. but hopefully your teachers will favor the careful reading of authors rather than the unintelligible writings of french wankers.

hm, this page has a shitty layout, but looks like you'll have fun!

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/admission...ook/sect4.html