Yes! If you are receiving financial aid from Columbia University, COÖP has multiple tiered financial aid opportunities for participants that cover up to the entire cost of the program. On the pre-orientation application, please indicate that you are receiving financial aid, and would be interested in this. You will receive notification of your financial aid award at the same time as you will be notified of your acceptance into the program. Please know that selecting an interest in financial aid has no affect on your application or admission to COÖP. 

Yes. Participants should bring any necessary prescribed and over-the-counter medication. Their trip leaders will have the medical information provided during the registration process. If medications have changed after the submission of the program registration, students should submit that information to a COÖP coordinator by email. Please note, COÖP leaders are not permitted to administer EpiPens.

No. Our program’s philosophy involves a complete immersion in nature with a small group of students to promote bonding. Also, most of our trail locations are outside the majority of network providers’ signal range.

COÖP is an administrative, student-led program supervised out of Student Engagement, within Undergraduate Student Life. The student coordinators for the 2018 trip are Nick Rio (ROP), Sam Kodama (BOP), and Adekunle Balogun (HOP); they can be reached via coop@columbia.edu.