<p>Im interested in possibly transferring to Columbia SEAS as a junior but my current school, nyu, does not offer any engineering courses as they do not have a engineering school. One of the most compelling reasons for transferring is that there is no engineering school at my school. Is it still possible to transfer into seas despite the lack of engineering courses and if its still possible, what classes could i take to help prepare me?</p>
<p>Hi there, I'm a recent SEAS transfer admit from NYU. I understand the problems that NYU offers in terms of engineering courses. If it helps, I did not take any engineering courses to transfer. In my case, I'm on the pre-med track, so I've taken general science courses as well as a math and philosophy course. I tried to avoid taking MAP classes because I figured it would be difficult to transfer the credits over for the CORE but my peers have told me it wouldn't be a big problem (in terms of credit).</p>
<p>In my opinion, you should try to take calculus courses as well as some courses that you think would fulfill some of your major requirements. It doesn't help to take courses that would fulfill the CORE requirements either (Writing the Essay, for example). Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions! It would be my pleasure to help.</p>
<p>I'm actually kinda concerned about transfer credits too, goyoungha. Do you know if Columbia SEAS accepts credits from major engineering courses? I had to taken two major classes this yr for major requirement and it would seriously suck if they refuse to take any of them :(.</p>
<p>On the tentative transfer credit evaluation forms, Columbia states that they award general credit in chemical engineering. Unless the course is not at all comparable to a course at Columbia, then I would assume the credit to be accepted.</p>
<p>Furthermore, "course approval for major or concentration fulfillment requires the approval of the appropriate department and should be done upon a meeting with the major/concentration advisor."</p>
<p>thanks goyoungha, the information was very helpful. I haven't been able to pick up my acceptance package yet though since I'm still at Cornell :).</p>
<p>What have you taken already? Usually:</p>
<p>You would want to have gone as far in math as you can based on whatever level you started at (Calc I, II, III; Diff Eq and/or Linear Algebra if you already had AP Calc when you arrived at NYU). Also General Physics (full year), General Chem (full year). Your English/writing intensive course. Foreign language course(s) if SEAS has a language req for engineering students. Computer science/programming course (if NYU has that). If you are thinking of biochemE, biomedE or chemE, then maybe more bio and chemistry.</p>
<p>The basic idea is to look at what a Columbia SEAS student in your chosen major would have taken in fresh/soph years. Come as close as you can to that. Since you can't have the Engineering courses, get some of the gened/distribution/core courses out of the way.</p>