lol agreed. i applied thinking maybe their funding packages couldn't be that bad...but they're terrible. i got a "good" offer of roughly half tuition which would still require at least $75K in loans.
columbia is making $10-16 million every two years off of a cohort. that should be criminal.
*this assumes a class size of 110, $150K in total tuition & fees, and that, at best, 25% of total cohort costs are funded. https://www.pw.org/content/columbia_university_school_arts