<p>I’m graduating from BMCC next month. I just got a call from admissions that I was accepted into GS. So, yes, community college is sufficient as long as you excel in your studies.</p>
<p>^ great to hear that you got admitted Alma2282, if you don’t mind what were your stats? I’m applying next year (Fall 10’).</p>
<p>Honestly, I think my stats are average for someone applying to GS. The only thing that may have made me stand out was my essay. I was completely straightforward with them, I just told my story and why I felt Columbia was for me.</p>
<p>3.9 G.P.A.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Several Writing Awards
Honors for Memoir Project
Great recommendations</p>
<p>It’s great how people go out of their way to defend columbia GS, and to say it is hard to get in, and whatnot. It’s SOOOOO hard to get in, and SOOO impossible, in 2007 it had an acceptance rate of 47% - that means, for every two people applying, they’d turn down one and accept the other.</p>
<p>[Columbia</a> University, School of General Studies Admissions Information - CollegeData College Profile](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1436]Columbia”>Columbia University, School of General Studies Acceptance Rate | CollegeData)</p>
<p>I’m not here to wail on Columbia GS, but let’s keep facts straight: if it’s no different than CC, then:</p>
<p>-Why are there scouts for Columbia GS going to every community college around NY?
-Why is the scholarship “merit-based”, and not your typical Ivy standard?
-Why is it that they discourage adults from applying as transfer students?
-Why is the diploma different? (And don’t tell me it’s not - do your research. You do not get a “Columbia College” Diploma - ergo - different - so deal with it).</p>
<p>As far as I know, applying to an Ivy had merit in admission because it is selective and special. Ask me if I’d want to be part of something where every other person can get in - go ahead - ask me. </p>
<p>Bye ;)</p>
<p>^
You already made this exact same post in a different thread.</p>
<p>“I’m not here to wail on Columbia GS, [but I feel inclined to wail on GS].”</p>
<p>I just finished my phone interview, i totally bombed my interviewer…Aha, i would very likely be denied…Although this sounds badly, the good thing is the money and time i could save. Good luck to everyone who could get in.:)</p>