<p>I have a different type of question than are normally posted on this website. I'm not wondering IF I could get into Columbia as a transfer, but SHOULD I transfer to Columbia. In a nutshell, I am top 5% of my class, Student Government, coaching Club Tennis, a T.A., in a play, E-board for my fraternity...and I have been selected to be the face of my University next year.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I am not having the college experience that I had envisioned for myself. I find the school materialistic and shallow. As a sophomore, this is my last chance to transfer.</p>
<p>Students of Columbia, is the Columbia experience so amazing, that it is worth leaving my current college behind? Unlike other transfer students, I have completely intermeshed myself into my current University, so leaving would have some big repercussions for me.</p>
<p>I would leave if the grass on the other side was really greener.</p>
<p>It sounds like you would only leave for a PERFECT Columbia experience. With the bars set so high, it is easy to find disappointments. No place is perfect.</p>
<p>If your primary complaint is that your current school is too "materialistic and shallow," (which is an abstract measurement) you will likely find such people at Columbia as well.</p>
<p>"Students of Columbia, is the Columbia experience so amazing, that it is worth leaving my current college behind?"</p>
<pre><code> What is your idea of amazing?
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<p>"Unfortunately, I am not having the college experience that I had envisioned for myself."</p>
<pre><code> Describe for us the experience you had envinsioned for yourself.
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<p>"I find the school materialistic and shallow."</p>
<pre><code> Good luck finding a school or any place in this world that doesn't have materialistic and shallow people. It's up to you to find and involve yourself with people who you share common interests with and don't bother with people you have no respect for.
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<p>You need to be realistic. What you are looking for is probably already on your campus, you just haven't found it yet. There's good and bad everywhere.</p>
<p>What are you looking for in a college experience? To be honest I think Columbia is one the the worst Ivies to transfer into socially - the infrastructure isn't transfer oriented at all.</p>
<p>Don't know exactly what you are seeking- a good place to find non-materialistic non-shallow people is U of Chicago--but no fraternity scene there--excellent academics.</p>