<p>Hey guys. I really wanted to attend Columbia last year but unfortunately I was waitlisted. This year I ended up at USC and received a 3.85 my first semester. I was wondering do you think it is a good idea to apply to transfer my sophomore year or wait until my junior year and boost my GPA even higher.</p>
<p>That's good enough to show that you're academically fit to handle the work at a good college. It's not going to matter whether you have a 3.85 or 3.92, for all practical purposes. Your transfer candidacy will come down to your reasons for transferring and other personal factors.</p>
<p>Why would you want to leave USC, anyway? Stay there.</p>
<p>Maybe because Columbia >>>> USC, but who knows.</p>
<p>Forget that.</p>
<p>the GPA is in the lower half of accepted Columbia transfers (3.8-4.0) but its not by any means bad. the fact that you were waitlisted will help.</p>
<p>are you from LA or NY?</p>
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the GPA is in the lower half of accepted Columbia transfers (3.8-4.0)
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<p>Explain the logic, or lack thereof, that forms the basis for this statement.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm pretty sure the range of GPA Columbia accepts is 3.5 - 4.0.</p>
<p>Although 3.5 is pretty flippin' low to transfer successfully.</p>
<p>I am from Southern California. My brother went to Columbia too. USC is nice don't get me wrong but i just always wanted to go to cu since i was a kid.</p>
<p>Casey2889 where did you find that statistic?</p>
<p>my HS adviser was a columbia admissions officer until 2003-4 and keeps in touch with her former coworkers...she looked into it for me bc i am also applying to CU as a transfer. </p>
<p>good enough for you Columbia2002?</p>
<p>(i believe my question was along the lines of, "what is the average GPA of successful transfer applicants?")</p>
<p>No, not good enough. What was her answer? Compare that to what you have asserted. Think about it.</p>
<p>...she told me essentially what i have already posted. to be clear: "columbia looks for, and really only accepts, applicants with college GPAs over a 3.8"</p>
<p>assuming this is true, i have faith that you can deduce how i arrived at my "assertion" from this...i apologize if i misled you to believe that it was a concrete statistic...still, given the sourcing, i would believe that its pretty damn accurate.</p>
<p>3.3 and athlete. There are so many individual factors that go into it you just cannot catogorize everyone into that statistic.</p>
<p>With regard to the original question, sophomore is better than junior--gives you more time to do the core. If you come in as a junior, a lot of the assessment focuses on your ability to finish all the requirements on time. I know a current junior who transferred this year. He has almost all his major requirements done (and you cannot repeat a course you have already taken), so essentially he will graduate without knowing many of the professors in the department of his major.</p>
<p>Please explain how, from this:</p>
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to be clear: "columbia looks for, and really only accepts, applicants with college GPAs over a 3.8"
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<p>you arrive at this:</p>
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the GPA is in the lower half of accepted Columbia transfers (3.8-4.0)
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<p>You can't. You made it up.</p>
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assuming this is true, i have faith that you can deduce how i arrived at my "assertion" from this...i apologize if i misled you to believe that it was a concrete statistic...still, given the sourcing, i would believe that its pretty damn accurate.
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<p>It's totally made up.</p>
<p>alright i see we are struggling with this. ill rephrase:</p>
<p>the GPA (3.84) is in the lower half of MOST accepted Columbia transfers (3.8-4.0), according to sources in the admissions office that provided this generalization. of course, as someone pointed out above, there can be exceptions for athletes, legacies, inter-ivy transfer, etc.</p>
<p>i would still say its a useful bit of information, but i dont think the OP needs to worry about it if he/she has solid essays and compelling reasons. i mentioned it merely to provide some context.</p>
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the GPA (3.84) is in the lower half of MOST accepted Columbia transfers (3.8-4.0), according to sources in the admissions office that provided this generalization.
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<p>You just don't get it, do you? Starting with the premise that 3.8 is the minimum GPA for acceptance, how do you arrive at the conclusion that a 3.84 is "in the lower half of MOST accepted Columbia transfers"?</p>
<p>given that the range of most accepted columbia transfers are between a 3.8-4.0, a 3.84 (being less than a 3.9), would be in the lower half of that range. make sense?</p>
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given that the range of most accepted columbia transfers are between a 3.8-4.0, a 3.84 (being less than a 3.9), would be in the lower half of that range. make sense?
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<p>No, it doesn't. Think harder. Think very harder.</p>