<p>I am trying to transfer and my situation is not very typical so I wanted some of your opinions even though I am going to apply anyway.</p>
<p>I am in SUNY Geneseo now, it's supposed to be the best SUNY schools and I'm a sophomore now. I was also an international student but just got an immigrant visa so I am now a permanent resident. I am trying to transfer to Columbia and Cornell.
Otherwise:</p>
<p>SAT:
Maths:600
CR: 570
WR: 570</p>
<p>GPA (after 3 semesters): 3.97
TOEFL: 111/120
French native speaker and studying Spanish</p>
<p>Activities:
Treasurer of the French Club
Member of the ski club
Also, Phi Eta Sigma honor society member.</p>
<p>I am an Econ major and one of my professors think I am going to get in Columbia and Cornell (I'm applying to these two schools) and my councelor think that it's not that easy...
Basically my case is weird because my GPA is high and my SAT's very low so I don't know how much they take the SAT into consideration for a junior transfer, especially since I didn't go to a bilingual school in France (I was in a very good public high cchool though ) and I didn't have time to study for them. (The French system is such that you have 30 hours of classes a week...)</p>
<p>students at suny binghamton might have trouble with the notion that you say geneseo is the best SUNY, very debatable </p>
<p>anyways</p>
<p>your sat's are usually of minimal importance for junior xfer. that being said, both of these schools get thousands of well qualified apps., a low sat score could hold you back a bit for ivies...</p>
<p>your gpa is fantastic, but the rest of your application is, in my opinion, incredibly boring. most competitive applicants will have a burning passion or desire which usually manifests itself in their ec's, being a member of the ski club is not going to cut it for the ivies. you won't get into columbia, i think, perhaps you might have a shot at cornell on the basis of your gpa</p>
<p>I actually a member of the ski team so that's kind of better as the ski club (we are not a varsity team as Geneseo is a small school but we compete against varsity teams on week ends) I forgot my other ECs but I am also on the finance and marketing club and in the marketing club I was part of a real life project with a local firm (we basically started a marketing plan for them) so I am talking about that in a small part of my application. I also was a panel member in a workshop open to the entire colllege community about "Building community through language awareness" where I talked about my experience coming here from France. So I know it's not amazing but it's a little bit more than what I had said before. I am also a Phi Eta Sigma honor society member but it's really not hard to get into that...</p>
<p>I also am not going to report my Sat scores to Cornell as they don't require them... So I think my shot at Cornell is bigger than at Columbia on this basis...</p>
<p>I know for the SUNYs. That's why I said "It's supposed to be the best..." Here they say we're the best, but I'm pretty sure that they say the same at Binghamton! I actually think we're pretty similar...</p>