<p>I am planning on going to a community college this fall because I was not accepted into none of my first choices because of my SATs. I am planning on trying to transfer to Columbia University after my first or second year I am not sure depends on their requirements. But I wanted to know if your SATs are taken into consideration as much as it is when you are applying as a senior in high school? I am a very strong student I have all A's in my high school classes for my whole four years but I did really poorly on my SATs. Also after the second year of college do they look at your SATs?</p>
<p>Columbia’s website discusses transfer requirements. That website should be your first stop, NOT CC. But yes, SATS matter. And, you need to be an exceptionally successful student at your community college to be a competitive Columbia transfer applicant. </p>
<p>I would work on being an exceptional student at your community college, first, and worry about transferring, second. As a community college student, a transfer to Columbia is going to be extremely difficult, UNLESS you have become an exceptional student at that college. Even then you will be competing against applicants from better known and more rigorous four-year colleges. Therefore, let becoming exceptional be your goal. (And plan on studying for and retaking the SAT).</p>
<p>I slightly disagree with swingtime: doing exceptionally well at Community college will not improve your chances at Columbia for transfer.</p>
<p>You should also know that transferring into Columbia, following rejections by similar schools is usually a non-starter. Accepted and viable candidates to transfer into Columbia are the kind of students who *turned down schools like Columbia and peer schools *but, for one reason or another, did not attend.</p>
<p>Your plan to do well at Community College and re-apply to extremely selective transfer admissions into Ivy-type schools has extremely extremely low chances of success. If you look to transfer, you should broaden your list – or if you applied to other 4 year programs and were accepted, you should take one of them.</p>