22 Lions, One New Way to See Columbia
NEW YORK, NY — February 2025 — Every year, thousands of prospective students file through Columbia's Morningside Heights campus on the same group tour, past Low Library and the Alma Mater statue, hearing the same script. SchoolScoops is changing that with its launch at Columbia University: 22 current students, now bookable directly, one on one.
What a group tour can't really convey is what it's like to actually build a schedule around the Core Curriculum, navigate a campus that's also a working piece of New York City, or figure out whether Columbia's intensity is the right fit for a given student. Those are the kinds of questions a current student can answer far more honestly than an admissions script ever will.
A private SchoolScoops tour lets prospective students and families browse current Columbia guides, choose someone who matches their intended major or interests, and build a visit around their own questions instead of someone else's script.
The 22 guides live at launch span majors from biology to computer science to pre-law, with both in-person and video chat tours available depending on how a family wants to visit.
The Columbia launch adds to SchoolScoops' growing presence among the most competitive schools in the country, where the gap between the brochure and the lived experience tends to be widest. Browse available Columbia guides here. Current Columbia students can apply to become a guide and earn $40/hour. Educational consultants and counselors planning larger visits can learn more about private group tours.
About SchoolScoops
SchoolScoops is a marketplace connecting prospective college students and their families with current students for private, personalized campus tours — in person or by video chat. SchoolScoops guides don't work for the school; they're current students sharing honest, firsthand perspective on what campus life is actually like. Learn more at schoolscoops.com or read SchoolScoops' story.