Transferring from NYU to Columbia

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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I’m currently a freshman at NYU, and I feel like Columbia University is a better choice for me. There are more opportunities for my goals at Columbia than that at NYU. I love some of the projects and discoveries made at Columbia. Going into NYU, I knew I wanted to transfer out, but I gave it a chance. Now I want to know how good are my chances for getting into Columbia as a transfer student with the following:

NYU Class of 2019
High School GPA: 3.2963 (with approximately 16 AP courses and 8 dual enrollment courses) - got a mathematics minor from Florida Atlantic University while in high school
College GPA (only one semester): 3.533
ACT: 28

I got offered to be a TA for biology 1. I plan on doing research at NYU Medical Center over the summer. I got offered for a few internships.

While I was in high school, I attended a biomedical research program at University of Pennsylvania and Boston University. I was an intern at the oncology department at a hospital. I am currently working on a few projects of my own.

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If I don’t have a chance, what can I do to improve my chances?

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it looked pretty good to me at NYU, how come you want to leave?

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With your stats you were lucky to be admitted to NYU. You want to transfer for prestige and that will be obvious to the Columbia adcoms.

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^^ def agree. with your stats, columbia and any other ivy+ school is essentially out of reach. also the fact that you obviously want to transfer for prestige reasons, is a huge red flag for adcoms. if i were you i wouldn’t waste my time on prepping transfer applications to schools like columbia. either stay at nyu and do the best that you can or try to transfer to a college you have a realistic chance of getting in.