<p>We need to first get accepted. Everything else comes second; including aid. A little fact: Last year's Columbia Transfer thread had about ~3-5 people get accepted.</p>
<p>Hmm Columbia is the only school I regret not applying to last year.</p>
<p>I just got back from a day-trip to New York. We spent a couple of hours creeping around the campus. BEAUTIFUL.</p>
<p>hey guys</p>
<p>i was a bad high school student
and i applied to columbia as a fall 2009 transfer</p>
<p>i am in my freshman year maintaining a 4.0
can i get in
thanks
any chances?</p>
<p>Great GPA. Of course, I'm told that there's a bit more to it than that.</p>
<p>Strictly speaking, people with poor H.S. records and great college experiences/GPAs/recs/etc get into top schools all the time. It can happen, my friend.</p>
<p>Sophomore: Penn state
HS/College GPA: 4.0 (high school on the gulf of guinea and A levels in england)
Econ and African studies major
Columbia 09!!!</p>
<p>I applied too, plan to be Econ, Math double major (PhD!):</p>
<p>HS GPA: 3.6 ish, outside US</p>
<p>College: Second Tier Business School
Major: Econ, CS. Minor: Math
College GPA: 3.96 (fairly hard classes)
SATs: 1920
ECs: I have a couple, including and interesting intership right now. Not an officer in any</p>
<p>My sister got her doctorate from Teachers College, hope it will help in some way.</p>
<p>does anyone know how much emphasis is placed on taking well-rounded college curriculum? i haven't taken any math or science classes (i'm a sophomore now) in college, because my community college credits (from before high school graduation) and ap test scores enabled me to fulfill my general ed requirements in college...</p>
<p>I know I'm on the Penn thread but I have a friend who REALLY wants to go to Columbia. He applied last year from high school and got rejected ED. He's a freshman at UMich right now and here are his stats:</p>
<p>HS GPA: 3.7 (from a competitive private high school, but his senior year wasn't that strong)
SAT I: 2250
SAT IIs: 730 (chem), 800 (math)
college GPA: 3.93 (first semester)</p>
<p>and he has lots of ECs showing strong leadership</p>
<p>chance him?</p>
<p>Hey everyone, I am an applicant from CUNY Honors at City. Do you know what happens if you had a rough college start but had a great high school record? I had a 4.0 in high school, and had my best performance in senior year. My GPA slowly increased from about A to A+, throughout my high school year. However, when it came to college, I struggled to adjust to its intensity and got a 3.43 for my first semester as a freshmen.</p>
<p>Does anyone know any person that gets accepted to Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth…etc as transfers with low college GPA’s?</p>
<p>I also good EC’s like volunteering for a non-for profit organization to revoluntize health care in underserved areas, working as a patient care volunteer at a hosptial, working as a tutor since seventh grade and more. I also joined many school clubs like Caduceus Society Alpha Epsilon Delta and the Red Cross. (I am a history-premed student).</p>
<p>My high school test scores are 2100 ish for the SAT and 720/750 for subject tests. </p>
<p>Do I have a shot at Columbia? Thanks to anyone who answers!</p>
<p>I am currently a History-Pre-med student.</p>
<p>who was harsh at the transfer info sessions, viola? Was it the admissions personnel, or the accepted transfer students? Please let me know.</p>
<p>CCtranshopeful, you definitely have a chance. but as a general rule, admissions looks at the most recent stuff. so it is always better to start poorly and finish well, then to start well and finish poorly. if you are set on transferring to columbia, you may have a better shot next year, when there are more substantive college records. also, if you wrote great essays and have great recs, maybe 1st semester in college won’t matter so much. it sounds like you’ve done a lot of cool ECs too :)</p>
<p>Both were harsh at the info. transfer sessions. I’ve been to the same sessions at Penn and Cornell, and the admissions staff was very welcoming and encouraging. They acknowledged that a lot of the applicants were previous rejects and waitlists, and were generally understanding towards a slightly weaker HS record amongst the applicant pool. Columbia was very down to earth, almost frighteningly so. The dean of admissions was there, and he flat out told us that a weak senior year will be counted harshly against us. They had a whole bunch of transfers talk about the experience (incidentally, they were all top schools - NYU Stern, Cornell, Swathmore, Manhattan School of Music - only one was from Rutgers Honors), and all of these transfers noted how hard it was to adjust, and how it’s almost impossible to study abroad. </p>
<p>You can certainly argue that Columbia is more real world. It’s tough, and 100 transfers - the very best - do make it. I’m just saying, it was a lot colder than the peer institutions.</p>
<p>I had around a 3.5 unweighted GPA senior year. Is that considered weak? Will that be held against me despite the fact that I come from a top15 school (3.7+ college GPA), very good EC, good reasons to transfer, very good recommendation, and good essays?</p>
<p>Nobody here can tell you that. I don’t know what Columbia considers ‘good.’ I think 3.5 should be ok… still, your other stellar components should definitely help you out. If you already made it into a top 15 school, you should really have something going for you.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Just as every year, Columbia is going to be exceptionally brutal this year.</p>
<p>hello, did anyone get the missing material email. i got it about 2 days ago. Its for my finanacial aid forms, am confused though, online it doesnot say that all my materials have been received, it just says that my fin aid forms are missing.</p>
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<p>Wow lol…it sure seems like Columbia is quite elitist when it comes to transfer admissions. That said, I’ve read of 3.6’s getting into Columbia as transfers, so it really does consider the entire profile. imathriver, I think the 3.5 is going to hurt a lot more if you’re applying for a sophomore transfer. On CC, I’ve seen a 4.0 kid from Stanford and an MIT student get rejected, so you really need to have your stuff together.</p>
<p>Yeah - I noticed that. The majority of transfers had 3.6 - 3.9. Very few 4.0’s.</p>
<p>Are there any New Yorkers applying? Do you know if transfer admissions will be biased against us as well?</p>