<p>How difficult is the process to transfer from fu to CC?</p>
<p>good question. I was thinking of doing econ instead of comp sci that I originally had interest in</p>
<p>Yea im not sure if im definitely doing engineering or not.</p>
<p>You’ll need to speak with Deans from both colleges and convince them that you are making the right move. At least that’s what happened to me 20 years ago (CC to SEAS). Otherwise, make sure your grades hold up and its a done deal.</p>
<p>Yeah I have two friends that have done this. They say its the same as transferring from anywhere else, but I’m not sure I’d believe that, my guess is it would probably be easier. I don’t know for sure though, but the two people I know who have tried have succeeded.</p>
<p>It is much easier than a normal transfer but you still have to have a good GPA, 3.5 - 3.7+ and a good reason. Columbia has incentive to keep you as part of the university rather than go elsewhere.</p>
<p>yea because at northwestern it seems really easy to switch between schools. im waitlisted at columbia. I dont think i want to do engineering anymore, so if i cant switch into CC i probably wont want to go there</p>
<p>The same relative ease of transfer takes place at Cornell, although under more dire circumstances. There are a fair number of engineering students every year that are told to find another college at Cornell to take them, due to low grades. They’re usually not kicked out of school, but also asked to take a semester or two off.</p>
<p>I have heard it is mainly a numbers game. If you are a great student, they will switch you easily. If not, have an especially well thought out reason. Honestly, there is no harm in trying to transfer, so just try it.</p>
<p>This is just what my dad tells me from his experience with Columbia though.</p>
<p>internal transfer criteria is utter bs. I was rejected freshman year taking a brutal courseload, with 3.75. My friend is a physics GOD who was rejected with > 4.0 (straight A+s in hardest math and physics classes). I honestly don’t know what’s going on with the internal transfers. MUCH stupider people have been accepted, but we were not. its clearly not a competence based criteria.</p>
<p>will be trying again, as the top econ student in my year, but it’s an infuriating and ridiculous process.</p>
<p>^ So you’re from the College then?</p>
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<p>Two theories: 1) you guys were too stupid to say the right BS in your essay about why you want to transfer, or 2) the people looking at the internal transfers are getting pressure from SEAS to not lose the best kids, but they’re happy to let the stupider people go.</p>
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<p>While the transfer process is pretty easy based on everything I know, this isn’t the reason why. Nobody’s seriously going to leave Columbia so they can go do a liberal arts major at some worse college.</p>
<p>I believe that transferring between schools in Columbia is a fairly tedious affair. It’s not as easy as just talking to the deans and getting their approval. Like any other transfer student, you have to fill out an application and get high school grades, standardized test scores, and recommendations. </p>
<p>You will probably be evaluated like any other transfer candidate. The process is not that easy and it definitely involves a lot of the bureaucracy and segmentation inherent in the Columbia way of education. The rumors I have heard are that you either have to have a really low GPA or a really high GPA, the former signaling that engineering is not for you and the latter demonstrating that you’re smart enough to transfer to Harvard. </p>
<p>However, I have seen posts on this site of students complaining that they did not have above a 3.5 GPA and would not even be considered by the admissions committee. I am not sure how credible this account is.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to be an engineer, just don’t come to SEAS. It’s not easy to transfer and if your grades suffer, you will be stuck in the school for the next 4 years. On the bright side, you (like most Columbia engineers) can take Operations Research, a fairly useful major that will help you excel in the finance world.</p>
<p>operations research sounds pretty good actually. I’ll do some research into it.</p>
<p>Operations Research is awesome at Columbia. They say that it’s on par with Stanford and MIT’s program but that’s not true. However, the program is fairly renowned in the world of finance (investment banking, trading, hedge funds, etc.) </p>
<p>Operations Research is the use of mathematics and analytical techniques to reach an optimal solution for a problem. It involves a lot of probability, statistics, mathematics, and computer science. There are applications essentially in any field that requires optimization including industry, transportation (think of how many OR people in UPS), and finally the coup de grace, finance.</p>
<p>Look into the Financial Engineering Program here at Columbia for undergraduates. You’ll need a 3.9-4.0 during your first 3 semesters in fairly rigorous classes. (Don’t buy the BS where they tell you to apply with a 3.0. No one gets in with a below a 3.7) It’s a program specifically for applying Operations Research techniques to finance problems, especially derivatives.</p>