<p>Question!</p>
<p>When did you receive your acceptance letter? Oh, and did you apply for anywhere else, or was it simply Columbia?</p>
<p>Hey, Malapropism. Sorry, I wasn’t clear enough with my question. I know that Columbia is need-blind for U.S. citizens, but on the website, they say that they cannot guarantee to meet 100% of the demonstrated need for transfer students. These are, obviously, fairly ambiguous words, and I’ve read of some people who say that Columbia has great financial aid for transfers and others who say otherwise. So my question is have you met anyone who is a U.S. citizen and was accepted but had a problem paying and had to either haggle with the financial aid office or take out a private loan at a bank? Thanks a lot for your help.</p>
<p>Also, @altruition: she said that she was initially wait-listed to Columbia, submitted a wait list-related poem, and was then accepted. She also said that she was accepted to Brown but chose Columbia over it. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Anybody still around here?</p>
<p>Hey Malapropism,</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you’re still answering questions but if so I’d really appreciate your opinion on this. I know LORs are really important for transfer applications which is why I’ve been a bit anxious about who to ask letters from. I’ve already approached one professor who I took a seminar with this semester and who I feel knows me enough now to write a solid letter on my behalf. However, I’m struggling with who to ask my second letter from. Most of my other classes were large lectures with recitations. Therefore, I didn’t get to know those professors on a more personal level. I’ve gone to visit a couple of them during office hours but it’s hard to go and not feel like I’m wasting their time when I don’t have much difficulty with their course material and thereby don’t really have a lot of questions to ask them. </p>
<p>I noticed a few pages ago you said you got one rec letter from your fall semester and one from your spring semester at your previous university. I guess what I wanted to know was how feasible do you think it is really to get to know a professor well enough within your spring semester to ask them for a letter in such a short amount of time. In my current school, the spring semester starts in the middle of January and transfer applications are due in March. I would like to ask for the second LOR ahead of time too, so even if I was to develop a good relationship with a professor from my spring semester I wouldn’t want to ask for a letter right before applications are due in March either. When did you ask your spring semester professor for a letter? </p>
<p>A lot of kids have also recommended that that I should just ask a fall semester professor instead of waiting to see how my spring semester classes turn out. As such they say I should ask a professor directly before the fall semester ends (while I’m still somewhat fresh in their mind) instead of later in the spring semester by email. What’s your opinion on that? I know I’m throwing a lot of questions your way but I’d be extremely grateful for your advice and feedback on all this. Thanks so much in advance.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 GPA. I want to transfer to Brandeis, Brown, Williams, Carleton, Grinnell, Bowdoin. I currently love my college right now but they don’t have a bio chem major and I love that. My high school GPA was 3.84. I will be applying next fall as a sophomore. I am the First year residential council president in my college. One of the writers in the college newspaper.A member of campus ministry. Nominee for Martin Luther prize because of my News Article in the college Magazine which was about Racism in my college and now the college is employing black professors and also calming the racial atmosphere. I will be taking SAT in January. I am currently a volunteer for both Obama 2012 and also in an hospital close by. I belong to the Black Student Association, also the biology, chemistry and Calculus society. Do you think I have any chance</p>
<p>Congrats！
I have some technical questions. Did you just give prof.s stamped envelopes and ask them to send the rec letter?
How about evaluation forms? Did you make copies or did you send hand written ones to every school you applied? Cuz both my signature and prof.s’ are required, and it’d be not good to let prof.s fill in the same form for 10 times.
So how did you deal with it?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>