<p>I thought that i would be a biology major, but i'm starting to think i'm interested in bme...</p>
<p>Is it difficult to transfer from CC to SEAS (or atleast take classes at SEAS)? </p>
<p>also is there any way to double major across the two schools without doing the five year program?? (i'm guessing it would be easier if the majors were related, like biology and bme, or chemistry and chemE)</p>
<p>thanks for your help! and hopefully see you next year</p>
<p>It's harder to go from CC to SEAS and graduate in four years, because you will have to take many extra classes, one's that you may or may not have taken initially. You need at a 3.5 GPA to be considered, and you must go through the entire transfer process. Any CC student can register and take undergraduate classes at SEAS.</p>
<p>I know someone who is doing the 5 year program in 4 years. What is noteworthy in your case, the majority of classes in BME and CHEME are completely different than their biology and chemistry equivalents. It's actually easier to do this if you choose major that have little requirements, i.e. not BME which has more requirements than any other major, and instead applied math, which doesn't have many required at all.</p>
<p>"It's harder to go from CC to SEAS and graduate in four years, because you will have to take many extra classes"</p>
<p>as a first year this should not be an issue, you would have fulfilled some of the seas core requirements like lit hum, and i imagine bme majors have to do a basic amount of bio and chem, which the op should have done. talk to your advisor, I doubt it will be difficult, there might be a gpa cut off, but with negotiation you might still be able to transfer. It is in columbia's interest to keep you in the university versus letting you go and having a transfer student come in. both interms of building an applicants loyalty to the school to get donations back to keep up a high freshman retention rate.</p>
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<p>Which 2 majors? Have they planned it and made sure it works, so that they aren't screwed due to some overlapping class times? This is much much much more difficult than graduating SEAS in 3 years. </p>
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<p>I think we need to start with the premise and not jump corners. Do you have a good sense of what BME is? Not a lot of people do, and it's not what people think it is. Congrats on getting in, and I'd take this slowly.</p>
<p>I want to transfer from SEAS to CC. I called the admission office today and they said that outside of possibly losing a credit or two, it's not a problem, but we might not be able to have the transfer done before fall classes start.</p>
<p>thanks everyone for your help. I'm guessing I'll wait it out a year or so, taking classes from both cc and seas and then decide from there</p>
<p>aerableparable-- haha maybe we can switch places?!</p>
<p>nola. I would love to switch places. lol</p>