<p>intended major: english/literature</p>
<p>ECs:
College:
President (fresh/soph) of campus human rights/labor rights organization (lots of involvement, very passionate about this.)
1 summer research, no publication
1 year research, 1 publication possibly
nursing home assistant job 15 hrs/wk (1 year+summer)
regular columnist for campus newspaper (2 years)
volunteer at free clinic (4 hrs/wk) (1.5 years)
leadership in a literature club (2 years)
leadership in a student-organized summer camp for kids with parents who have had cancer (2 years)
physician shadowing (not much)
High school:
hospital volunteering 400 hours
research 1 summer, 1 publication, 1 abstract
robotics
chem club
religious youth group
4 years debate/forensics, no awards
got scammed into going to the national youth leadership conference
NHS
mostly just derped around.</p>
<p>Academics:
College:
3.99 GPA, half A+, half A, one A- in a 1 credit class.
finished all the premed classes with A+ or A
*<em>will have only 3 literature classes completed by app submission.
High school:
4.45/4.0 (2 B's freshman year. 1 B senior year AP class)
34 ACT
41 IB
8/600 class rank
a couple of 5's and 4's for APs. (do I send the 4's?)
hardest curriculum that the school offered. almost all IB/AP in junior and senior year.
*</em>no SAT II, might take one or two if necessary.</p>
<p>Recs:
Hah. I can probably get one good one from the head of the honors program at my school who taught my freshman english seminar. This is something I need to work on.</p>
<p>hooks:
underrepresented state?</p>
<p>race:
indian</p>
<p>current school:
non-prestigious state flagship</p>
<p>I am a transfer who got accepted to Columbia this year. You can put together a pretty competitive app with that list. I would predict that you get admitted. Good luck! </p>
<p>AP credits don’t really matter. Send them if you want. It’s kind of a fluke if you think about it…you are gonna retake at least some classes you got AP credit for.</p>
<p>@PineappleEater</p>
<p>I want to transfer to Columbia next fall. I am international student from a good liberal arts college. The reason why I want to transfer to Columbia is that it is a great urban college, as a person who is not used suburb life I feel like I dont fit into my current college,and also it has a great Middle Eastern Studies program. In my current school, this major is offered but the course choice is no way near Columbia, and lowerclassmen are disadvantaged at taking seminar classes. For example, this semester there was no middle eastern studies course offered.</p>
<p>My gpa is around 3.65 but my school has grade deflation. My highschool GPA was 3.5 but it was a very competitive school which does not give rankings. </p>
<p>I had a lot of extracurriculars in high school such as speaking 4 languages, summer internships, community services, independent research.</p>
<p>This year I am the managing editor of the schools international relations magazine, a senator in the college government, a member of mun and a dance club.</p>
<p>What do you think my chances of getting admitted? (Also, I am asking for scholarship, but I can apply without asking scholarship and look for outside sponsor)</p>
<p>I’m looking to transfer to Columbia next fall too. Are you guys applying as incoming sophomores or juniors?</p>
<p>I am going to apply as an incoming sophomore.</p>
<p>I got an email today from Columbia about transfer info sessions at Columbia in the next couple months, along with a tour of the campus and talking with past transfers students and stuff like that. Has anyone been to one of these sessions before? And was it useful/worth going to? I’m just not sure I will be able to take that time off from school, let alone asking my parent(s) to too.</p>
<p>Could you share the details about the info sessions?</p>
<p>I’m looking to transfer to Columbia as an incoming sophomore with intended English major as well. </p>
<p>I think my stats are all right - ACT 30 with a 35 in the English section, HS unweighted GPA of 3.87, but the killer is really that I got a mere 3.13 GPA this first semester in college (astronomy absolutely killed me, I did improve with the help of my prof and managed 85% on the final, C in the class). </p>
<p>College extracurriculars:
-job (one at school, one at home which i still do over breaks- just did 30 hours last week for holiday season ugh!)
-broomball team captain
-media, marketing, and communications scholars program (similar to honors except it is more career-oriented, out-of class project groups + seminars) - also on the community service committee of freshman exec board
-Musician’s collective - focus on the music industry and promoting local music scene
-member of student radio and looking to DJ next semester</p>
<p>high school extracurriculars:
-the big one is a student run charity organization that plans a dance to raise money for charity:water, I was on the advertising/social media committee
-NHS
-4 yr pianist in jazz band
-Foreign Language Club
-14 years of piano lessons (consider this a crossover as I still play)
-5 years guitar
-again, worked all throughout high school 20-25 hours per week</p>
<p>My ECs aren’t exactly as impressive as everyone else’s, but I am a very strong writer and I think my essay is amazing, so hopefully that may work in my favor? Again, my first semester GPA is 99.9% going to kill my chances, but I’m also hoping that the fact that I got 96% and outstanding feedback from my prof in a senior level English class that my university didn’t want to let me take will help out. </p>
<p>I don’t know if the essays, recs, my aptitude for my preferred area of study, etc are enough to make me stand out as a good candidate for acceptance…</p>