<p>I am an international student from Guatemala accepted to the Fu Foundation of EAS. I was initially intending to concentrate on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering to eventually major financial engineering. I was just wondering if it is possible to transfer to Columbia College easily during the first year. I also loove economics and mathematics so I was thinking that moving to columbia college and majoring econ and math would also be a very good choice. (of course, if its possible)
Also, People have told me that SEAS is less competitive and less reknown than Columbia College. Is this true? I know that the acceptance rate is much higher but I thought that this was because highly qualified individuals apply to the SEAS.
Thanks.</p>
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I know that the acceptance rate is much higher but I thought that this was because highly qualified individuals apply to the SEAS.
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<p>This is right.</p>
<p>Major in what you want to, and forget worrying about acceptance rates.</p>
<p>"People have told me that SEAS is less competitive and less reknown than Columbia College. Is this true?"</p>
<p>nope, columbia college might be more well known by the average joe because of it's low acceptance rate and larger student body, but few people distinguish between the two, grad schools and employers certainly don't care.</p>
<p>transferring is possible but not straightforward, if you do well in classes it'll be easy to transfer to CC.</p>
<p>Just say you go to Columbia where you study engineering. That's all the recognition you'll need. (Oh, and congratulations!)</p>
<p>Listen to C2002, he speaks the truth.</p>
<p>And concoll, the reason why "Columbia College" has more name recognition is because I'm willing to bet the average joe doesn't know that engineering at Columbia is its own school. The average joe probably has no idea about how universities are organized academically. There's only one undergraduate school at most of Columbia's peers, which includes both liberal arts and engineering programs (Harvard College, Yale College, etc.), so they probably assume the same is true here.</p>
<p>One more thing to note is that the two ivies which also have separate engineering schools didn't go through the acrobatics that Columbia did for years in marketing them as some other school (e.g. in various college guides Cornell and Penn would have one entry for the university, while Columbia had 3, one each for CC, SEAS, and GS.)</p>
<p>nobody outside of grad school admissions offices will ever know or care about the difference between CC and SEAS. Nobody. Certainly not hiring managers for jobs you want. Prestige isn't an issue.</p>
<p>The issue, as C02 succinctly put it, is what you want to do. I did engineering because science/math was easier for me relative to my peers than humanities was. I didn't love it the way people fall in love with a subject, but I had fun and did well because I picked something I was good at and wanted to do. I suggest that you do the same.</p>
<p>I called the admission office yesterday regarding this very issue because I'm in the same position as the OP, not in Guatemala though, and they said that transferring to Columbia College during freshman year won't be an issue.</p>
<p>^ That makes it sound like a successful internal transfer is guaranteed, which puzzles me since the official policy is that you have to reapply with all the other external transfers.</p>
<p>Your post isn't very clear on the timing of the transfer process either - did they say you could start in your new school by freshman spring semester? Hope you don't mind explaining this, since they told me I had to apply to transfer during freshman year and could only cross over as a sophomore.</p>
<p>I asked about CC-->SEAS by the way. And I also saw the other thread on the same topic (<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/485197-transfer-cc-seas.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/485197-transfer-cc-seas.html</a>)</p>
<p>bump...anyone have any idea about this???</p>