<p>Is it hard to transfer into columbia? From NYU? What would people have to do to get in?</p>
<p>I'm curious about this as well, from NYU to Columbia.</p>
<p>It really depends. I have a buddy at Connecticut College with a 4.0 in a double major who interned in Russia at an investment bank and is involved with lots of academic things who was denied a transfer to Columbia. In my Contemporary Civilization class last year there was a girl who had transferred from NYU who, in my humble opinion, doesn't belong at Columbia.</p>
<p>The fact is that lots and lots of people want to transfer and very few get in. It's as much about getting lucky as it is about anything else. Of course, you need the credentials, but there are no guarantees. The only way to find out is to try. Good luck.</p>
<p>Do they give a lot of weight to high school grades too, or can those grades be negated by an excellent college track record academically and extracurricularly?</p>
<p>i was waitlisted from Cornell, and i am praying i get accepted...i was also waitlisted from Duke</p>
<p>i had very 'solid' credentials......</p>
<p>^ I think bball meant Columbia.</p>
<p>I think CC & SEAS are especially hard to transfer into--very limited spaces + a lot of applicants. Practically all students at GS transferred into it. Don't know about Barnard. I'd assume it is, given its size. Anyone have stats for any of the schools?</p>
<p>I think for SEAS this year they accepted about 25/100 (25%) and for CC they accepted about 60/1200 (5%)</p>
<p>yeah---i was waitlisted at columbia, but I attend Cornell CAS</p>
<p>Columbia, Yale: notoriously hard for transfer</p>
<p>Harvard, Dartmouth: <em>slightly</em> higher acceptance rate</p>
<p>UPenn, Cornell, Brown: substantially more slots</p>
<p>Princeton: doesn't take transfers (yet)</p>
<p>UPenn, Cornell, Brown: substantially more slots</p>
<p>Not this year!!!!</p>
<p>Yeah, Penn took it upon themselves this year to be much more selective than other years. I've heard they only accepted ~100.</p>
<p>I wonder what caused Penn and Brown to all of a sudden get so competitive. Brown used to accept like 200/700...and I think Penn accepted somewhere around 200+. </p>
<p>Incidentally, Layla, did you get into Penn?</p>
<p>Yes, I did get in to Penn. I think that 200 number is from previous years, a friend of mine at Penn has buddies working at the admissions front desks, apparently the reason Penn took so long this year with decisions (got mine June 2nd) was because they had so much more weeding out to do.</p>
<p>I would think one of the hard parts about transfering into Columbia (besides transfer admission, which I don't know about) would be catching up on the CORE once you're in.</p>
<p>layla are you joking??? 100 kids out of 1900???</p>
<p>I'm really not joking. This is what I have been told, and it does explain why it took so long compared to previous years.</p>
<p>Hi my name is Josh.
I did ok in high school with 3.3 GPA and 1100 on the SATS. I knew I couldnt get into a columbia. I feel I have a chance now because I have currently at 3.46 GPA at Hofstra University in Long Island NY.( I was taking advance political classes- classes that are suppose to taken during senior year) I recently taken an internship at mediation/arbitration company which I met this mediator which I am hoping for him to write a recommendation for me. He graduated from Columbia and Columbia law. He is also partner in one of the top ten law firms in country and represented very famous clients too when he was praticing law. I am also getting this recommendation from a professor who was previously a contracts law at merril lynch. So the question I am asking what does GS look at in terms of getting in. I have to say anything associated with Columbia is pretigious that why they dont call it ivy for no reason. I am just scared I wont get in- any advice for someone who trying to transfer out. I really want a columbia degree because I want envy when ppl see it and I want to get into columbia law school. </p>
<p>P.S. Does sending in a picture really mean anything thanks.</p>
<p>I honestly think that it would be very hard for you to transfer, simply because your reasons to transfer are very shallow and unintelligable. For instance, you said that you "...want a columbia degree because [you] want envy when ppl see it..." Do you really have no other reason to transfer? Because that's a very big part of the application.</p>
<p>i really wanna transfer into columbia as well.. i'm going to attend northwestern.. but does anyone know any more info on it? like when you apply.. and when you receive word... and if credits transfer.. etc. etc.</p>
<p>also.. honestly how difficult is it? what's the transfer application like? i was waitlisted... andi heard if you were waitlisted ors omething before, then its' somewhat of an advantage.. is this true?</p>