Transfer Questions :)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I have applied to Columbia this year, but I am very likely to get rejected.</p>

<p>My senior and junior grades are high (90%+, Rank Top Ten), but thanks to my mediocre freshmen and sophomore grades (80%ish, Rank Not in Top Ten), my culmulative high school GPA is not so attractive. I arleady got rejected from Johns Hopkins and Duke.</p>

<p>Assuming that my SAT scores and extracurriculars are all right, if I get 3.85+ GPA in the first semester of my freshmen university year, would such an improvement give me a shot?</p>

<p>I see that Columbia places equal weight on both high school GPA and first year university GPA, so I'm worried that my university GPA would not mean anything.</p>

<p>I would appreciate your comments, and thanks for reading my long post :)</p>

<p>Thanks all!</p>

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<p>transfer admissions is harder than freshman admissions. they take very few.</p>

<p>you'd have a shot, just as everyone has a shot, but you'll need to stand out - whatever's special about your application now, emphasize that and keep working on that.</p>