<p>Please, can anyone answer my question. Do you guys know if regional officers are used in evaluating the transfer pool? Would really like to know. Thanks.</p>
<p>@beccagirl I think I remember reading somewhere a while back that regional officers are used in evaluating the transfer applicants. However, if I remember correctly, it’s the regional officer of the area of your high school, not of your current college…this sounds weird but that’s what I remember reading.</p>
<p>Hi guys, I’m a transfer applicant to Columbia University. Have you guys all submitted a letter of rec from an academic advisor? My academic advisor was very hard to make a contact and she uploaded the document very late, like in mid-April. But on the Common App, it just says ‘started’ rather than ‘downloaded’ or ‘submitted’. The advisor just sent me a copy of the letter and I asked the admission office about it, but haven’t gotten any reply. In the Columbia applicant page, it appears they received letters of recommendation from me, but those are the only two from professors who taught me and not the academic advisor. Could you guys give me any advice? Thanks!</p>
<p>@injustics Call admission office on Monday. </p>
<p>I didn’t think we needed a recommendation from an academic adviser? (the requirement is that you send 2 recommendations from faculty members who taught you). </p>
<p>Columbia actually required 3 recommendations: 2 faculty and 1 academic advisor.</p>
<p>I feel like Columbia was the school that required the most of its applicants, IMHO. Fairly long application, 3 recommendations, a ton of supporting documents, and in my case an arts supplement. I guess they have enough materials for a holistic evaluation ;)</p>
<p>Guess I’m screwed then. I sent three glowing recs, but they were all from instructors. :)</p>
<p>OHHHH… I now remember that I asked my department head to write a recommendation just for Columbia. I actually sent 3 required recommendations according to their guideline. Anyhow, does anybody know what date they will be releasing the decisions? P.S. KingofSwe, injustice, and PaintTheSilence look familiar from Cornell thread lol.</p>
<p>Haha, I guess you’re on to me @aerivus!</p>
<p>what do you guys think columbia over cornell ? </p>
<p>@000AAAaaa easily Columbia. Just the tip of the iceberg is location—NYC is on one end of the spectrum of awesome, Ithaca at the very other. I’d pick Cornell only if you want a more “traditional” collegiate experience.</p>
<p>Hi y’all I’m new to this thread!</p>
<p>Applying: CC (rising soph)
Current School: a Southern Ivy
Current GPA: 3.86
Credits: not sure
High School GPA: not sure (my school doesn’t have a GPA system
SAT score: 690 Math, 690 Writing, 640 Reading (2020 - prob my downfall)
EC: Mostly are involved with the arts (exhibitions, art auction, editor-in-chief, etc).</p>
<p>Comments:
Major: Art history/visual art combined major
3 more weeks y’all! I’m super nervous and anxious. I really want to go to Columbia (because (1) it’s in NYC and I’m an art major, so it makes sense (2) the only school in NYC that offers art history and visual art as combined major and not as two separate majors).</p>
<p>I am very unhappy in my current school (just because of its setting and the ‘culture’), so I am really hoping and praying I get in.</p>
<p>Also, do you guys know if they’re doing interviews for transfer applicants?</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK EVERYONE and hopefully, I can see you all in the Fall (positive thinking! haha)</p>
<p>I got in last year but turned it down for some reason. Am applying again.</p>
<p>@bookznhoopz can you post your stat? I am trying to figure out my chance so that I can make travel plans for the summer. </p>
<p>Anyone knows the decision timeline? :)</p>
<p>@banker92 I think they’ll tell us by May 15th the latest. I really just want to know their decision sooner because the suspense is killing me haha</p>
<p>Penn is releasing decisions on May 5, and many of the Ivies try to release decisions on the same day. I think last year they didn’t let applicants know until the day before when they’d be releasing decisions.</p>
<p>@WeberCubism - thanks for your comment.
@ILikeCheeseNWine - I got the email from Penn today informing about this May 5 decision date. However, since Cornell released it mid-Apr and H and Y release only around mid-May, I doubt all Ivies release decision around the same time. But maybe you’re right. haha! I don’t want to wait any longer.</p>
<p>Any idea about Brown though?</p>
<p>I really hope I get in! </p>