Hmmmm. Well, I can totally understand why you would be cautious. I assume you know that many J-term people do find summer internships. That said, Columbia has really grown and mutated so much over the last decades: it's a school for consulting and tech as much as -- if not more than -- finance. I'm not sure if the shorter J-term has implications for the length of the STEM post-study work period. It's also a little unclear to me how well CBS has placed foreign students into US jobs in recent years. These things might be unclear to you too.
My gut says: if they will 'prepone' your seat and bring you into the August intake, that will be better and give you vital extra time for networking, internships, projects and informational interviewing. If not, I would still trust my gut and think that the January intake would work well *if* you take the time now to revise the core topics to make the A and B teams as easy as possible for you. I think still works better than, for example, taking a MIF.
Hmmmm. Well, I can totally understand why you would be cautious. I assume you know that many J-term people do find summer internships. That said, Columbia has really grown and mutated so much over the last decades: it's a school for consulting and tech as much as -- if not more than -- finance. I'm not sure if the shorter J-term has implications for the length of the STEM post-study work period. It's also a little unclear to me how well CBS has placed foreign students into US jobs in recent years. These things might be unclear to you too. <br><br>My gut says: if they will 'prepone' your seat and bring you into the August intake, that will be better and give you vital extra time for networking, internships, projects and informational interviewing. If not, I would still trust my gut and think that the January intake would work well *if* you take the time now to revise the core topics to make the A and B teams as easy as possible for you. I think still works better than, for example, taking a MIF.
