<p>Ahoy Columbians,
My brother, not a CC member, currently attends a very prestigious top 10 USNWR university (one that is tied with Columbia, ironically), but is looking at a transfer to Columbia. On his behalf, I want to find out what exactly it takes for someone to surmount such an undertaking.</p>
<p>He's finishing up his freshman year now, and is rolling in a 3.8-ish GPA. He's studying Econ, if that makes any difference, but wants to xfer to Columbia for Fu's Financial Engineering program. He didn't apply to Columbia as a freshman because he was misguided and afraid of rejection, so he avoided the situation altogether.</p>
<p>High school stats: 3.77 GPA, 34 ACT, 760 Math II, 780 World History...</p>
<p>Just seeing if he's on the right track / has a shot.</p>
<p>He seems like the kind of student who would definitely have a shot at Fu were he applying as a first-year student...but I only say that because I'm more familiar with Fu's stats for first-year admission, and I'm not at all familiar with their transfer stats. If I had to guess, though, I'd say that probably means he also has a good chance as a transfer. I just don't know their transfer acceptance rate (they do typically have a higher acceptance rate than Columbia College, though).</p>
<p>Again--that's all a total rough guess. But from what you've posted, nothing stands out to me as a real negative.</p>
<p>i think he is perfectly set up to get in, fu takes in many more transfers than CC (at least as a % of class) because people find fu tough and some transfer out. The acceptance rates should be higher than the 6-7% that i've heard of. a 3.77 seems good enough to suceed at fu, and chicago is also a corey school, so ideologically it makes sense to take him. i think he has a good chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Whoa. At UChicago, with its rampant grade-deflation, a 3.8 is REALLY impressive. With that said, does he have any EC's or specific reasons to transfer? I'm sure a lot of transfer applicants have good numbers, but the soft factors (essay, EC's, etc.) will put him over the top.</p>
<p>Hey guys, back here again. Ironically, I, like my brother, have been accepted to UChicago and am considering it. He seems to not like the Econ program at all there, though, so it is worrying me. As an aside, our family is ultra-leftist so I'm guessing he feels singled out, being that he is studying Econ in the capital of the free market universe.</p>
<p>Bro was wondering if his high school transcripts were required for transfer admissions, and if they were, how heavily were they weighed against his college marks?</p>
<p>no-offense but I don't think any well-reputed econ dept is ultra left wing or even significantly left wing for that matter, not even Columbia's. Columbia SEAS too is much less left wing than the college. High school transcripts are considered in transfer admission, I think if he's doing well at chicago he has half proven that he is capable of suceeding at Columbia, they will still however high school grades because he hasn't been in college for long enough.</p>
<p>He's not looking for an ultra-leftist Econ department, haha. He wants to change to engineering altogether. And what better place to transfer to for a similar core curriculum as well as a stellar engineering program?</p>
<p>Trying to judge whether a school is left or right is a bit tough. The student body is mostly liberal of varying shades. If you want to protest sweatshop produced apparel in the campus bookstore, get in line. Of course there's a small but vocal conservative group of students on campus as well.</p>
<p>In terms of faculty, in the Arts and Sciences, you could say the Social Sciences (excepting Econ) and Humanities breaks left, while the Natural Sciences could probably care less about politics so long as they keep getting research funding.</p>
<p>the B-School obviously breaks right, while the law school tends to break left. This is kind of funny, because on one side of campus at the law school you have one of the chief architects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (post-enron corporate regulation), and on the other side at the business school, you have a faculty including a bigshot dean that thinks its the workst thing in the world. good stuff, just don't expect marxism in you macroecon class :-D</p>