<p>wow a 4.0 from CMU is impressive, i didn't hvae that, but my overall ap i think is pretty strong, i have a lot of stuff...good luck</p>
<p>i got waitlisted btw</p>
<p>Transferring From: Berkeley
State: California
Major: French / Economics
College GPA: 3.85 over 3 terms
High School GPA: 3.7 uw / 4.2 w
SATs: 1490/750avg
Sophomore Standing/Junior Standing: Junior Standing
Recommendations: Stellar; from very influential professors
Essays: Well, I spent 8 months on them.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected (Columbia College)</p>
<p>edit: I suppose my reasons for transferring were not too compelling.</p>
<p>Also waiting on H and Y, but this doesn't bode well.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>Admissions in the Ivys are brutal this year.</p>
<p>Jesus H Christ.....</p>
<p>I'd like to see the overall stats of admission for Columbia. This does sound brutal this year. SO MANY 4.0s from really legit universities...</p>
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<p>Sigh, tell me about it.</p>
<p>Congrats to those who were admitted!</p>
<p>This is just ridiculous. Even just last year many of these applications would have been good enough for these schools, and now it is an oddity to see anyone accepted. I am so nervous about Penn, I see no reason for them to be any different than the others.</p>
<p>Cheer up guys, remember, it's not the school name that defines you, it's how you define your school and yourself. After 2 or 3 years into your 1st job, no one's going to care about which school you are from anymore, it's the work that you put out that matters. It's great if you got into your dream school, but don't fret it you didn't, there are much more important things to value in your life.</p>
<p>From: Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
State: Florida
Major: Engineering Physics
GPA: 3.72 1st semester, 2nd unknown (probably very low)
HS GPA: 4.01/4.5 weighted, uw unknown
SAT: 710M 780V
SATII: 760W 800P 730M2
Rec: Supposedly amazing. Professor became fast friends 1st semester
Essay: Shoddy. I had one I loved that I spent days on. Professor told me it wasn't what they were looking for so I took my old MIT essay from last year, deleted all references to MIT and sent it in last minute.
Decision: Accepted
Comments: Last year I applied to MIT and freaking Embry Riddle. The trick is to only apply to one school. Live on the edge, etc.
Sorry to whoever didn't get in. I was crushed when I didn't get into MIT last year and everyone who got in on CollegeConfidential got a verbal lashing from me. I deserve the same from all of you, so have at it. Email your insults to <a href="mailto:rivesf2d@erau.edu">rivesf2d@erau.edu</a></p>
<p>I've noticed so many people who are transferring are coming out of schools like UCLA, NYU, Berkeley, Michigan etc...these are TERRIFIC schools--were I not admitted to CU today, I would have gone to Michigan regardless of what Penn's decision was going to be. Enjoy your undergraduate experiences, all of you. These are a short four years.</p>
<p>Btw I Didnt Request Housing!!!! Important!!!!! And thats CC, not SEAS. Talk about messed up!</p>
<p>i am sorry, but i don't get something</p>
<p>why are ppl coming out of top schools (Cornell (myself), carnegie mellon, cal berk, and a bunch of others) not getting in, i got waitlisted, and a bunch from very modest schools are getting accepted</p>
<p>it jsut seems weird</p>
<p>This is a good point--I'm not sure I would have gotten in were it not for the research I did at CU, but Drexel's Biomedical Engineering program is actually ranked quite well. The rest of the school is not.</p>
<p>Transferring From: Tufts University
Major: Film Studies
College GPA: 3.52
High School GPA: not sure. ranked 11/363
SATs: 700m,760v,730w,680u.s.histoy, 670lit
Sophomore Standing/Junior Standing: Junior
Decision: Waitlisted
EC's: two jobs on campus--one tv-related, the other media-related. one film internship last summer, a music internship last summer. internship at cannes film festival coming up in a few days. a film and music internship at a company in nyc this summer. created my own film major at school through plan of study. independent study. psych research. a lot of interest in the french language and spanish language. film/acting. some other not-very significant stuff.</p>
<p>I guess I probably break that trend....</p>
<p>Transferring From: NYU, CAS. Presidential Honors Scholar</p>
<p>State: New York</p>
<p>Major: English/Politics</p>
<p>College GPA: 3.8</p>
<p>High School GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>SATs: 1510, mid-700s</p>
<p>Recs: Should have been excellent, including one from John Sexton, President of NYU, whose seminar (15 students) I took and loved, and he liked me.</p>
<p>EC: Debate, Musical Director of full NYU musical production, Orchestra</p>
<p>Sophomore Standing/Junior Standing: Sophomore</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Essays were good, and very strong reasons regarding why Columbia; applied out of HS and was waitlisted.</p>
<p>bball, maybe it's because there are great students at more than just big-name schools.</p>
<p>I know of at least one more student accepted as xfer from my school, but he published a physics paper this year, among other things.</p>
<p>Transferring From: NYU CAS
State: NJ
Major: Math/Chem/Pre-Med
College GPA: 4.0
High School GPA: 3.6 UW / 4.1W
SATs: 1390, 800 IIc, 790 Writing, 760 Bio
Sophomore Standing/Junior Standing: Soph
EC/Essays: Intership with eye surgeon (wrote an 80 page book on eye surgery with him) and the generic clubs. Essay were pretty good, or so I thought
Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Hopefully Penn turns out well..congrats to all of you who were accepted.</p>
<p>Transferring from: Boston College
State: MA
Major: Bio (applied for biomedical engineering at SEAS)
College GPA: 3.71 in 1st semester (freshman)
High school GPA: ? UW, 4.17/5 W
SAT: 1510 (800M/710V), 1510 (750M/760V) so 1560 combined; 780 writing ii, 780 bio, 780 chem, 800 math iic
Sophomore/Junior: Soph
EC/Essays: Did some math things (math team, AMC/AIME, ARML) in high school, volunteering, etc; essays were decent, I think
Decision: accepted</p>
<p>but think about this...out of the 4 ppl who have already posted acceptances to Columbia, weren't 3 of them accepted into SEAS and not CC? And isn't SEAS's transfer admissions rate greater than CC's?</p>