<p>Tips for any transfer:
- Get close with your professors to ensure the best letters of recommendation possible
- Pull as high a GPA as you can
- Start working on your apps early. Really get to know the schools you’re interested in (some, like Columbia, have info sessions specific to transfers, so definitely get in on those), which can help you in arguing for why you want to transfer to that specific school
- Become involved on campus to demonstrate that you will be contributing to the campus of the school to which you’re transferring
- Have a solid reason for why you want to transfer</p>
<p>I like to think my creative approach to the supplementary essay helped me somewhat.</p>
<p>The World Leaders Forum is where Columbia brings in world leaders to speak. You have to sign up (and early) to get in on it, and sometimes it’s tough finding the panels that don’t conflict with your class, but we have some great people come to speak. One of the ones I attended this year was a panel with the President of Kosovo, one of the youngest democracies in the world.</p>