<p>Yeah, they pretty much told us not to apply without a stellar senior year. Suck for me, I ended up with an 80/100 avg senior year, although it was an 87/100 overall for 4 years. So I'm pretty much applying for the hell of it.</p>
<p>I did great freshman year though!</p>
<p>i'm a sophomore at uc berkeley. i'm particularly hopeful about getting in since i've already transferred before, but i really needed to try anyways to take the chance however small. i really want to get out of the public school system. there is so much bureaucracy and i feel like just a number.</p>
<p>wow did they really say not to apply if you dont have a stellar senior year in HS?</p>
<p>I'm currently a freshman at a top15 university (think Brown, Duke, Dartmouth) with a 3.7 first semester. 2250+ SAT's, good EC, good reason to transfer, but my HS GPA is pretty bad and my senior year is even worse. </p>
<p>Any chance?</p>
<p>If you're at a top 15 school, your HS record is probably fine.</p>
<p>But yeah, they were pretty harsh at the transfer info session about HS senior year grades.</p>
<p>i meant to say i'm NOT particularly hopeful about getting in. imathriver, how'd you get into a top 15 school with a bad high school gpa? athletics?</p>
<p>well, i did go to a tough private school and had an upward trend. no athletics. </p>
<p>Shouldn't Columbia expect people's grades to drop a bit senior year? I mean most kids slack off after submitting college applications and 2nd semester grades dont really matter.</p>
<p>imathriver, I am in the same boat as you. I had a B/B+ average in senior year and an A- average overall in high school, but I went to one of the most competitive private schools in New York City. On the other hand, Columbia is extremely difficult to get into, so I wouldn't be surprised if they want excellent grades even if you went to a great school and it was senior year.</p>
<p>does apply to people that would have a junior standing at columbia? I thought highschool performance isn't usually scrutinized for people who have spent 2yrs in college already. This makes me sick</p>
<p>Applying for junior entry. How much emphasis is put on my high school and sat scores? THanks</p>
<p>clearly not as much emphasis as a sophomore applicants; however, they do favor sophomore applicants (so their transfers are better able/have more time to finish the core curriculum)...so it balances out</p>
<p>i.e. if a sophomore applicant has a nearly equivalent college record (from a comparable college) and did better in high school and SATs than a junior applicant, I'm quite sure Columbia would tend toward the Sophomore applicant (assuming all oher things--extracurrics, essays are comparable as well)</p>
<p>argggg. (pirate me). that is such a perfectionistic criteria. people grow. people change. high school shouldn't mean that much. i f<strong>ked up high school towards the end of junior year, but i got my s</strong>* together now. shouldn't that count for anything?</p>
<p>yeah thats why i applied to other places too... i'm not banking on columbia at all... although i would kill to go there.</p>
<p>Please don't kill me Chicago! :'(</p>
<p>Viola, I see that you actually made it to their info sessions. Could you highlight some of the things you might have heard? PLEASE?</p>
<p>haha death is just an expression of love!</p>
<p>something in me is hoping that not to many people would apply this year. does anyone have any idea how many people showed up at the trasnfer info sessions? is it tougher for columbia college or for the college of engineering?</p>
<p>much tougher for the college.. only one person from the entire transfer session was a SEAS applicant</p>
<p>How many people were at the info session?</p>
<p>just 1 seas applicant at the info session? I don't know if that is a good thing. How is financial aid like for transfers?</p>
<p>"Columbias transfer admission process is need-blind" & "While we do not guarantee that we can meet 100% of demonstrated financial need for admitted transfer students" & "There are no academic, athletic or talent-based institutional scholarships at Columbia".</p>