Hey Gradcafe-ers
Longtime lurker first time poster, i applied to several comp lot programs this year, got into a few, and am currently deciding between Berkeley's comp lot program and Columbia, where I was admitted to the Slavic dept with a foreseen concentration in the institute for comparative literature and society
So columbia's way of doing comp lit is essentially the opposite of every other program's, and I wanted to ask what anyone knows about ICLS, whether it's seen the same way that a comp lit dept is, whether there's anyone here who had to make the choice between columbia and another school and why they made the choice they did, etc.
I understand that this is a great choice to have, and I'm really shocked by the offers that I got, but I'm completely torn about whether to do this and probably be more slavic-focused, or move across the country and go to berkeley.