<p>Is it easier to get into CC or SEAS? Also, which one is better for pre-med?</p>
<p>^both are equally difficult to get into, they look at slightly different things, for pre-med I’d say they’re both good, you might prefer CC because the grading is better so your GPA is likely to be higher CC. The most thing to consider is what you want to study, not “which med school I’m I going to, which med school am I going to” if you think like this all the time, you will likely not get into a very good one or possibly one at all. Find out what you really want to study (humanities, social sciences, pure sciences, fine arts, engineering) and base CC or SEAS on that conclusion alone.</p>
<p>If I go to CC, I’ll probably major in Biology. If I go to SEAS, I’ll probably major in Biomedical Engineering.</p>
<p>^This is the archetypical mistake that most pre-meds make. BME and Biology are not in any way interchangeable. BME is only a small part bio; it is a mix of bunch of disciplines: (mechanical, electrical engineering, math, chemistry and bio). Someone who is good at bio, might make a horrible B-M engineer. </p>
<p>Biology is not the only nor the best thing you can study to become a premed. Med-schools actually like math and engineering majors a lot, though any major will do. If you’re basing your college decisions on heuristics you might want to do some more research.</p>
<p>7.1% for CC and 15.3% for SEAS, for what it’s worth. (2012 RD)</p>
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<p>They’re very different substantively, but I’m of the belief that someone smart can be good at anything with discipline and determination. Plus, BME and bio aren’t so different that it’s different part of the brain.</p>
<p>^^CC has historically had lower SAT scores (by 20-30 points on average) and lower % of students in the top 10% of their high school class (~91% vs ~94%) than SEAS. Based on hard data SEAS is more difficult to get into, CC just gets thousands and thousands of BS applicants (like many other top non-engineering schools), seas applicants are self-selecting, ever heard of that? - just throwing that out there, for what it’s worth.</p>
<p>If you do not fully understand admissions statistics, don’t throw numbers around.</p>
<p>You must be a SEAS kid. Pathetic.</p>
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<p>Dude, next month you’ll realize it’s not cool to talk like this.</p>
<p>^^you’ll probably work for me someday, so get smart.</p>
<p>I agree with confidentialcoll :)</p>
<p>Quick question: Why is Columbia SEAS ranked so low in engineering school rankings?</p>
<p>^because the rankings do not capture the quality of a school and the quality of it’s students. SEAS is a an engineering school for non-stereotypical engineering students. It does not focus on getting everyone into Industry related jobs straight after graduation. If you want to work directly at Ford or Exxon Mobile after you graduate then University of Michigan might be a better bet (Columbia still does not do a bad job at these placements). But seas definitely takes in some of the smartest kids of any program anywhere (SAT scores are higher than MIT’s). Many top seas students end up working in (for example) elite Hedge funds, trading firms and investment banks, and many make ridiculous amounts of money there. I know quite a few kids working at NASA, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon etc. Many who want to, get into top phd programs. Rankings fail to capture any of this success, which stems from top students receiving a rigorous and more rounded education than other engineering schools.</p>