The application is already live and I already filled everything out … but I’m a freshman is it too soon to submit?
Also I’m applying SEAS not GS (idk how to change the category)
Transfer apps are not due until much later (Jan - Feb), right? Why wouldn’t you spend more time improving the essays?
You’ve been at school 6 weeks and you have your transfer app ready to submit? Why did you start there at all? (real question)
That’s true, I’ll get my essays revised. I guess I’ll push back at least until December to submit. Plus I guess I’ll have more activities to put on my app by then.
Honestly cause it was the highest ranked on my list of schools I was accepted at. I didn’t really take “campus feel” into account and pretty much knew my decision to choose the school the second I got the acceptance letter. I wouldn’t say I’m miserable here, but I’m definitely not happy. Orientation week, I was so excited and had high hopes about the school but here we are now… And I prepared it early so I wouldn’t have to stress near the deadlines, but yeah…
Good for you for being straight up about how you chose your current school (rank). It’s not clear how you decided so fast that your current school simply won’t do, or why you now think that Columbia is the only school that will, but:
I would put your transfer app aside completely and not revise / think about it at all. until the week before the deadline- set a reminder on your phone & actively put it out of your mind. Use the time between now and then to really put your back into being there as if you were not planning to transfer- or as if your transfer application was unsuccessful and you are ‘stuck’ with where you are now. You might discover that you grow into the place.
Either way, when you go to re-read your essay, 100% you will find parts that make you happy you didn’t send in your current essay(s). That’s because, whether or not you like where you are and whether or not you notice it (probably not- most of us don’t), you are growing and learning and changing a lot right.this.minute. You might not think that you +8 weeks could be that different than you now, but you would be surprised. When your reminder goes off (assuming you still want to transfer) go open the application, re-read it and use the last week for fine-tuning, and submit.
Here’s a lesson for everyone: Don’t choose a school based on “rank”.
Also, Columbia has an acceptance rate of 6%, a 62% yield rate and a retention rate of 98%. People who get in there tend to return and stick it out.
Will do. Thank you for the advice.
What’s yield rate? (I haven’t used this website much.)
Yield is the % of students who accept their offer; retention is the % of students who come back after the first year. The key thing about the retention rate for you is that it shapes how many spaces they have for transfers.
Dw I’m trying to transfer out so u can have my spot lol
@troublemint Lol. If you don’t mind sharing, why do you intend on leaving? And where do you plan on transferring? Thanks in advance 