<p>Or should I not bother spending that extra year on liberal arts stuff and dive right into engineering?</p>
<p>I've applied to transfer to Columbia SEAS, Cooper Union, Carnegie Mellon, and Duke U. I have a guarantee transfer to Macaulay Honors at City College.</p>
<p>So this is a really tough decision for me. Does that one year really make a difference? Are there any cons to this Combined Program? It seems too good to be true. =/</p>
<p>Can anyone perhaps point me in the right direction?</p>
<p>I heard the combined program is pretty competitive.</p>
<p>The combined program is not competitive at all. If you go to one of the joint liberal arts colleges and have a certain GPA in pre-engineering classes (I think it is 3.0), then you will automatically be accepted.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/files/webfm/combined_plan_fact_sheet.pdf[/url]”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/files/webfm/combined_plan_fact_sheet.pdf</a> </p>
<p>If you look there on the second page of the pdf. file it says that admission is guaranteed if you meet the criteria listed</p>
<p>It’s guarantee admission, provided you have a 3.0 GPA (which is easy at a CUNY) and you have to take all the required courses. </p>
<p>I heard it’s a tough curriculum once you get into SEAS though, since you would have to cram all that stuff in, in 2 years.</p>