<p>anyone else....</p>
<p>Two things about Columbia:
Would you be required to take the core curriculum even as a transfer? Fitting it in within three years rather than four, could leave you little room for electives and -- depending on what pre-reqs you've taken or not taken for your major -- might even make it not possible to graduate in your remaining three years. Columbia is notoriously stingy about granting credit for courses taken elsewhere. Do you even want to take the core curriculum? You definitely need to consider these issues, beyond just the fact that Columbia is an Ivy in a city.</p>
<p>This year, Columbia took in an unusual number of students from colleges in New Orleans (around 200, though some were grad students.) Though those students are expected to return to Tulane and elsewhere I haven't seen anything about whether or not some may try to stay at Columbia and whether Columbia might allow them to transfer. So, it might be an unusually difficult year to attempt to transfer to Columbia.</p>
<p>I don't know about Penn, but I remember that Brown takes a larger number of transfers than a lot of other selective schools. One reason might be that such a large percentage of its student take a junior year abroad. If you're really interested in Brown, you might look into whether transfer applicants do better applying for sophomore year or junior year. </p>
<p>Another school that has traditionally had a policy of leaving space for transfers is Stanford. Not in a city, but certainly warmer than Cornell. You might also look at Pomona, especially if weather is your concern. Excellent school.</p>
<p>Since you have to attend a university for at least two years in order to receive a diploma from the institution, you have to take the columbia core curriciulum.</p>
<p>You will never get in
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<p>thanks for that inspriring post, princetonfreak</p>
<p>You will get in Period.
But first you must turn to the dark side.
lol</p>
<p>bump...,.......</p>
<p>i just reread your post and found out that you want to be a polisci major. are you premed as well?</p>
<p>i was pre-med going on, but i have since reevaluated things, and think i may go a different direction.</p>
<p>bounce this up....</p>
<p>which college at cornell were you at.... does cornell do grade deflation in all intro classes, or just in intro sciences to weed out... does it grade deflate in non-intro classes?</p>
<p>yeah your chances are good</p>
<p>College of Arts and Sciences</p>
<p>the grade deflation is in the engineering/science courses</p>
<p>let me reitterate, this DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU CANNOT DO WELL. What i mean is that it's not an easy road, but many ppl on these boards, especially Norcalguy, has like a 3.8+ GPA in the sciences at Cornell, and he is obviously a very smart guy. The nonsciences aren't cut throat at all, but at least intro bio and intro chem are pretty difficult, on a curve to a B-/C+.</p>
<p>so is it intro sciences that are deflated only? or if ur a biology major, are the high level biology classes also deflated?</p>
<p>i really have no clue, i haven't any upper level bio courses, nor do i ever expect to.</p>
<p>b u m p !</p>
<p>Ouch, too bad about bio. . .before you transfer, realize that upper-level classes are not curved as harshly, check the median grade report on the registrar's website. </p>
<p>With a 3.6 at cornell you should have many options open to you as a transfer student.</p>
<p>anymore......</p>