<p>If I were to maintain at least a 3.8 gpa at stony brook, do various amounts of research and ec's. Would I have a good shot at columbia transfer for my sophmore year?
High school stats:
GPA UW: 96.4%
Rank: 1
11 Ap's
ACT: 32
SAT 2: 790 and 740
Started my own reading workshop for autistic children and did research with neurologist.
I was rejected off the waitlist for freshman admissions for columbia
I am a first gen college student.
Asian, though, but I'm leaving my race blank this time.</p>
<p>Also, how important is the essay, "Why your university does not meet your needs?"</p>
<p>You should have a decent shot if those conditions are met</p>
<p>Your essay is arguably the most important part of your app, if its mediocre and everything else is amazing, you still wont get in</p>
<p>oh god. stony brook blows, but at least you’re already planning to get out. if you can get the gpa you claim you will (and you have competitive HS stats, so you probably can), then i don’t see why not. your essays are extremely important. if you want some easy class suggestions for sh1tty brook, i’d be happy to give you a list. what’s your major going to be if you get into columbia?</p>
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<p>Really? I thought college GPA was by far the most important part of a transfer student’s application.</p>
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For most top schools, yes. A 4.0 obviously helps, but the school you want to transfer to wants to know why you want to be there and what you will accomplish. Its very different from hs apps in a sense if you have a perfect SAT score, youre bound to get in somewhere good. I transferred to Vandy with a 3.25ish from a crappy tier 4 state school, what got me in? My essays.</p>
<p>the high gpa is expected, but what makes or breaks you is your essay. that allows you to show your passion for your major and helps colleges see why you would fit in at their school. </p>
<p>same. transferred to cornell with a lowly 3.5 and was the only accepted to my college for spring because of my essays</p>
<p>I’m usually in agreement with ironicallyunsure, but I think it’s a bit presumptuous for anyone who didn’t personally attend the committee hearing on their application to suggest that they were accepted because of reason x or y. Not that I disagree with his statement regarding the importance of solid essays, rather the implication that they are more important than your college transcript, high school transcript, and standardized tests.</p>
<p>I think a more reasonable conclusion, indeed one described to me by an Assistant Dean of Admissions at USC (school from which I transferred to Penn), is that they all bear equal weight and come together to form a package. The transcript (both high school and college for sophomore transfers such as the OP), standardized tests, and essays respectively tell the committee whether the applicant is willing to do the work at the desired school, able to do the work at the desired school, and emotionally/personally a good fit for the desired school. All pieces must fit into place for an applicant to be successful, and one is no more important than the others.</p>
<p>IMHO, I would say that recommendations are as important as essays (if perhaps slightly less so).</p>
<p>i wasn’t at the committee hearing, but i met the head of transfer admissions a bunch of times and saw him after… he said they weren’t planning on taking anyone but that my essays blew them away 
(and i’m a girl 
) but wayward’s right in that you never know what goes through the adcom’s mind. just my story so i guess don’t bank on it 100%</p>
<p>LOL I thought I was the only running away from Stony without even attending! But my friends tell me not to get my hopes up because of the low chances of being accepted as a transfer. I understand that my HS profile isn’t as competitive as it should be, so ironicallyunsure what do you suggest I do to make myself stand out more?</p>
<p>Forgive my sexism! I just assumed you were a man…</p>
<p>haha wayward no worries. my username doesn’t really tell you too much and i’ve gotten the “i thought you were a boy!” so many times. and a few “i was wondering why you always said things like ‘fab’” lololol so it’s okay we’re still CC friends </p>
<p>you were valedictorian of your HS so i don’t understand the “not as competitive” part regarding your HS stats. you should apply to some other places, too, just in case. what’s your prospective major?</p>
<p>sooooooooooo Hi there 
I’m in the same lovely predicament as the OP sorry to, you know, revive this from the CC grave but the main reason I want to transfer to columbia from SBU is because I didn’t get in the first time. Columbia is my absolute DREAM school. I’m in love with the school, and itll be a great place for both my Biology major and the Digital Arts minor which I’d probably take as more of a film study if accepted. I’ve wanted to go to CU since I was 12 or 13 and at this point I feel like I won’t stop until I finally make it.! My high school stats suck, my english SAT sections were both 700’s and math was very low in the 500’s, and my ACT was a 28 but this semester I’m making a 3.8 GPA at SBU [sooo not trying to go into my SAT 2’s]. Next semester (spring 2012) I’ll be taking a heavier course load after which I should be caught up in math and can start Calc A but the point is, I intend to do well. I’m a very good essay writer and I feel that writing about CU will be easy because I AM so passionate about it. So is there any advice any of you can give me? My high school profile is average, my grades being better than my SAT scores, but is there still a chance? I went to SBU looking to enjoy college but also kept in mind that I needed to do good to reach CU, end goal, so do they take into account your improvement on the collegiate level? </p>
<p>Thanks and sorry for the long post ^^’ haha</p>
<p>-Jay</p>