1) Backdoor to Columbia University.
2) Program for students rejected from Ivy League Institutions, and more generally top tier
universities, as admission to this dual degree is relatively high.
3) Group of privileged and self-referential rich kids hanging out between themselves and not doing much in their first two years of college.
4) Four year, direct entry program with the two first years in France at one of Sciences Po's regional campuses, and the two final years in the
United States at the undergraduate college for non-traditional students of Columbia University, the School of
General Studies. Upon graduation, students are awarded the Sciences Po Bachelor of Arts and the Columbia School of General Studies (GS) Bachelor of Arts.
Friend from
high school: How did you get into Columbia? Congrats!
Dual BA student: I got in through the Dual BA Program Between Columbia
University and Sciences Po procedure.
Friend from high school: Oh, okay.
Never mind.
