High-school seniors reject Columbia over campus chaos: Why would you want to go there?

Over the next month, high-school seniors across the country will find out whether or not they got into their first-choice college.But for some students who had dreamed of going to Columbia University, acceptance suddenly doesn’t sound so hot.“If you were to compare Columbia with virtually any Ivy League, virtually any other Ivy League will win [in terms of desirability with students] — and even non-Ivies like Duke, Emory and Washington [University] in St.

Louis,” college admissions consultant and Command Education CEO Christopher Rim told The Post.As President Trump has cut Columbia’s federal funding in an effort to squash chaotic pro-Palestine protests, applicants are weighing whether to accept an offer of admission from the school or to go elsewhere.Hopefuls applied with the knowledge that the campus had been shut down by a pro-Palestine encampment last spring, but Rim says they generally didn’t expect things would still be so crazy.“Lots of my clients thought things would be back to normal by now,” he said.“And by the time the school year starts in the fall, who knows? One thousand things can change again.”The non-stop drama has Rim predicting that many of the families he works with, “unless they have a very specific reason they want to go to Columbia,” will happily throw an acceptance letter aside for an alternative school.While regular decision admissions results haven’t been released yet, early decision offers — which require binding commitments from students — were made over the past couple of months.Rim said he has has several parents desperate to back out of those deals.

One family is trying to wiggle out because funding cuts might shutter a lab their child was planning to work in on campus.He added that some locked-in early-admission students feel a sense of relief watching the president crack down on their future school.“They’re actually liking what Trump is doing,” Rim said.“They’re like, OK, maybe things are ...