Future Transfer Applicant

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<p>Hello again Columbians!</p>

<p>I think I first decided that I wanted to go to Columbia in January of 2007. I've been looking through these forums ever since, trying to scrap together the perfect application - I made a mistake.</p>

<p>Come application season, I had a mental breakdown, and decided that I wasn't Columbia material. As a result, I ended up not getting into Columbia, not because I didn't have the stuff, but because I didn't even try.</p>

<p>That's right, I was so worried about getting rejected from my dream school that I avoided it altogether. Huge mistake? I'd say so.</p>

<p>Let's get to my "huger" mistake. I've wanted to be an engineer for...ever. Stupidly, I applied to only one engineering school this past year, and was wait listed there. Now it looks like I'm still going to a great university, just without the engineering part.</p>

<p>So this August I'm going to go to Emory and, in short, bust me ass. I'm going to do as well as possible, just so I can, once and for all, try to get into Columbia. If I fail, fine, but at least I can move on knowing that I didn't just shrug it off. I plan on transferring into SEAS and minoring/double majoring (I hope this is even possible) with CC's Middle-Eastern Studies program.</p>

<p>Any tips for the future transfer student? My high school GPA is 3.8 UW and 4.79 W. Never took the SAT or SAT Subject Tests, but I have a 34 on the ACT (35E, 33M, 35R, 32S). Had plenty of extra curricular activities in high school, and I have a few hooks - low income, bilingual, foreign-born.</p>

<p>Someone guide me in the right direction!</p>

<p>PS I know a gap year is the best idea, but my mom doesn't even want to hear my mention of it.</p>

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<p>now this is a new one</p>

<p>i think a gap year would be a bad idea since at the end of the day you might just end up wasting a year and not getting into columbia after all</p>

<p>i get the feeling columbia would be very inquisitive about y you didn’t apply right out of HS and i’m sure telling them the truth won’t look very good and will just make you look unstable/self conscious/unmotivated etc. </p>

<p>I think at the end of the day though the advice i would give is the same advice i give to those who got rejected and are saying they want to try transferring…enjoy the school you’re at and while you should apply for a transfer if you want, don’t count on it and don’t plan for it or else you will have a really crappy four years…i’m certain noone would wanna hang around someone who goes on and on about how much they want to transfer. </p>

<p>and if it’s engineering you’re after…why don’t you try transferring to emory’s engineering school?? sounds like the more logical solution to your dilemma.</p>

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<p>Shraf - to my knowledge, there isn’t an engineering school at Emory.</p>

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<p>i if remember correctly, emory has a joint ba/bs and/or ba/ms with ga tech…something to think about if you end up staying there</p>