<p>Just wondering :)
Does anyone know? Also, what are the exact procedures that you must go through for that to happen? If anyone could find a webpage that would be super amazing since I was unable to find it...</p>
<p>IceFire, kind of lazy here, it is right in their FAQs, and further you can search the CU site and might have been able to find it. </p>
<p>From Columbia’s website:</p>
<p>May I transfer from Columbia College to The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (or vice-versa) once accepted and enrolled?
If you are accepted to either Columbia College or Engineering and you genuinely feel that you should attend the other, you may submit an Application for Transfer Admission to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. However, you will be competing with other transfer applicants (from many other colleges), and current Columbia students are not guaranteed or given automatic preference in the transfer admission process. We strongly recommend that prospective Columbia applicants consider thoroughly which undergraduate school is more appropriate for their interests and aspirations at the time of application.</p>
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<p>in practical terms it means that not everyone will transfer between schools, but those with truly compelling cases, aka not to go from biomedical engineering to biology, are preferenced. and the gpa limit of a 3.5 is pretty firm.</p>
<p>to add my own few cents. both schools will be tough, you will probably have days where you wish you didn’t have to read Hume, or didn’t have to do another problem set. buyer’s remorse is more of a transient psychological phenomena and not a real thing. college is a hyper emotional time and questioning your decisions is okay. but in the end think realistically, and the realist in you should note that your college major really doesn’t matter 5, 10, 15 years down the line. what matters is picking something you think you could enjoy, that plays to your intellectual/academic strengths, etc. go into columbia thinking that you will stick with it because you pretty much can get any job you want as an engineer as you could as a college student. further the gradient between the two schools in terms of selectivity has become so narrow that any advice you would have sought 10 years ago when the admit rates between the two schools were golfs apart is no longer valid. </p>
<p>and as a college student - i would have preferred to do engineering. i can’t say math comes easy to me, but it is a means of thinking and explaining the world that is becoming increasingly relevant and offers in truth more job security. so consider it is a more desired educational form that particularly in the columbia version is very open to careers outside of traditional engineering fields. you don’t go to columbia to become an engineer, you go to study engineering.</p>
<p>They always say that transfers for current students is as competitive as general transfers, but thats most likely not the case. I’m currently a sophomore, and I know of two people who transferred from SEAS to CC this year, and there are probably more. As long as you meet the GPA requirement and have valid reasons, you’ll most likely be able to transfer. </p>
<p>However, you probably won’t need to transfer, unless you find that you just cannot continue doing problem sets and taking quantitative courses, and really want to read books and write papers. Both SEAS and CC have things that will not appeal to everyone, and you’ll most likely be better off just staying where you currently are (or will be)</p>
<p>This is the only thing I don’t like about Columbia. I want to major in either physics or engineering, two very closely related subjects, but for some reason in two different schools. If I go to CC for physics and decide I would rather do engineering, would I really have to go through all the normal transfer procedures?</p>
<p>Since the two are so closely related, you shouldn’t have a problem. Just pick which one you think is better suited to your interests currently and apply there. If you get a bachelor’s degree in physics you can very easily get a master’s in engineering. And and if you do undergrad in engineering and decide you want to pursue graduate work in physics, you can do that pretty easily too. And the job set open for the two is pretty similar. The differences will likely be superficial (i.e. engineering being less theoretical).</p>