My chances at Transfer?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Hey.
To keep a long story short, I am currently a freshman @ NYU and I want to transfer to Columbia. I am wondering what my chances are. Is Columbia transfer incredibly hard?
Here are my scores that are mediocre:</p>

<p>SAT 1: 1440 (760 Math 680 Verbal)
SAT 2:
Writing 710 (ugh)
Math IIC 760
US History 700
Korean 800</p>

<p>AP Scores:
4 English
5 Calc
4 Euro History
3 Bio
3 French </p>

<p>GPA in High School:4.9 (out of 5, not 4 hehe)</p>

<p>Activities: National Honor Society (president), class treasurer, church stuff, a little bit of volunteer, baseball stats... other clubs...</p>

<p>Essay: hopefully something phenomenonal.</p>

<p>GPA Freshman year: not sure of course but I guess at about 3.6 eventually.</p>

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<p>wow...how did u end up at NYU...w/ ur scores at my high school, NYU is a safety, and I got considerable Merit (non financial aid) aid w. NYU w. a similar SAT score.</p>

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<p>Last year, 1000+ transfers applied to Columbia College, and only around 80 were accepted. You're going to need a really good reason for wanting to transfer from NYU to Columbia, though, because they're both in New York City and NYU is actually still a pretty good school (albeit a "safety"). Plenty of students apply from NYU to Columbia each year, and for the most part they almost systematically get shut down, probably because they don't have a substantial reason for wanting to transfer anyway. AP scores aren't shown on the application, and SAT's don't matter as much for transfers. While it's not impossible, I would suggest giving NYU a chance, and maybe you'll learn to love it enough you'll lose almost all your desire to want to go to Columbia. But if you keep the mindset that you want to transfer and that NYU for whatever reason isn't desirable, it'll be impossible for you to get adjusted to NYU in the event that you get rejected.</p>

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<p>Did you apply to Columbia and get rejected and then went to NYU?</p>

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<p>The most mediocre aspect of your app will be a weak college GPA. You'll be competing against people with great GPAs.</p>

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<p>i transferred last year from nyu cas to columbia cc.</p>

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<p>It doesn't look like Columbia will be taking any transfers at all, possible until Fall 06. The reason is the school are capped because of the open admission that was offered to students affected by hurricane Katrina. I know for a fact my undergraduate is full, and I'm pretty sure CC is full as well.</p>

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<p>dude....the tulane kids are going bye bye after the first semester.</p>

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<p>Looks like I might as well quit now lol</p>

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<p>Go ahead and apply, can't lose anything.</p>

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<p>It's not a fact that Tulane kids will leave...it depends...there is specualtion that they may have to spend another semester.</p>

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<p>The "Tulane kids" aren't enrolled through CC/SEAS. They're taking classes through Continuing Education. They could, theoretically, continue paying to take classes if they so chose, but they wouldn't continue receiving tuition kick-backs.</p>

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<p>In addition to the stats I posted initially, I got my gpa for fall semester.
GPA: 3.925
At least I will be putting in a good gpa..</p>

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<p>and it's gpa that matters most. now you have a good chance. you should also come uptown and speak with the admissions people face to face; i think that really helped me, although i came from chicago (not just to see columbia, but if that's the impression they got, all the better).</p>

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<p>How do I visit them?
Do I just go there without notice?
Or do I have to set up an appointment or something?</p>

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<p>why do you want to transfer to columbia? whats wrong with nyu?</p>

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<p>NYU socially sucks in my opinion.</p>