<p>hey, @thinksmart31 which school do you go to now? I’m assuming you’re a freshman?</p>
<p>Do international student have to take SAT or ACT exams for transfer to Ivy League or UCs from CCC ?</p>
<p>( I am an international student at CCC from Turkey )</p>
<p>^ yes they do</p>
<p>Hey everyone!
I’m a freshman at Cornell right now, also looking to transfer to Columbia for next fall. I’ve actually had a really good first semester (4.1 GPA!), and I’ve gotten involved in Cornell, so I hope I have a good shot… but I guess we’ll have to see.
I was rejected the first time around too!</p>
<p>Hey guys,
I’m a freshman at a top 30 and am thinking about transferring. </p>
<p>College Credits: 20
College GPA: 4.0
I am a class Senator
I am treasurer of a school sports club
I contribute to the arts section of the newspaper </p>
<p>High School GPA: 4.2
High School Rank: 22
SAT: 1960 (depressing, I know, but w.e.)</p>
<p>hey guys, just got an email from the admissions officer: </p>
<p>Thank you for your interest in Columbia University. As we are still evaluating first year applicants, please note that the SlideRoom portal for Transfer Applicants will not be available until February 8th.</p>
<p>Just in case anyone was freaking out about the slideroom website not working as much I was ;)</p>
<p>Wait, what’s slideroom??</p>
<p>@CornellMedic2012: it’s the website for submitting visual art supplement - i.e. if you paint, draw, do collages, photos, etc, you submit it through that. I believe they also have a bunch of stuff for dance/music/theatre/science. It’s not required, it’s only if you believe it’ll add to your application. You transferring from Cornell, I believe?</p>
<p>@bluechair
How did you guess my school? Haha yes I am applying from Cornell University (whoo Big Red!). Not artistic in any sense of the word though, so I do not think sending in an art supplement would do me any favours…</p>
<p>Hey! I’m also a potential film studies/finance major looking to transfer! do you know how heavily they weight high school versus college? my high school never sends any kids anywhere but I have a 3.9+ gpa at my top 8 university…</p>
<p>@CornellMedic2012: call it intuition, haha! have you submitted everything already? agh so nervous.
@NedNickerson: it depends, are you a freshman or a sophomore? if you’re a freshman, they would definitely point more attention to high school than if you were a sophomore, simply because you haven’t…“proved” yourself at college yet. I mean, as a freshman you’d only be transferring with a semester of “college experience”. Which school do you go to, if you don’t mind me asking?</p>
<p>Hey, thanks for the reply. I attend Duke, but my high school has a special history of never sending kids to top 10 schools, particularly HYPS, Columbia, etc.</p>
<p>are you a fresh or a soph?
as for your high school, the only thing you can really do is make sure they write you a nice recommendation. since you’re a transfer student, there are more things in the equation now - your college GPA, recs, etc etc. And, as obvious a piece of advice as it is, make sure you write super amazingly awesome essays. I doubt that top 10 schools should blacklist you just because of your HS.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman. Haha thanks for the advice, hopefully I can pull something together for my essays…</p>
<p>@bluechair I have not submitted everything yet. I did get everyone that needed to send everything else in (recs, transcripts, college reports… lions and tigers and bears…), which was the most exhausting thing ever.
I am sending the application in within the next week though, just so that I don’t have to worry about it once exams start in a couple of weeks. Have you submitted your stuff?</p>
<p>Hey guys, I’m sending in my HS transcript from my home country, so it might take a while. Do you think it’s gonna be okay if it gets there a bit late?</p>
<p>Hey friends</p>
<p>Quick question. For those of you applying to several schools besides Columbia, didn’t you find it difficult writing a “generic” personal statement. For regular admission from high school, it made more sense–the questions usually didn’t have as much to do with the specific university. But as a transfer student, when answering “why are you leaving and what do you hope to accomplish,” wouldn’t you have to mention some specifics about the university you’re trying to get into? I just found it interesting…I’m only applying to Columbia, so at first I didn’t think it was a problem. Now I’m looking at it and thinking…I have to make it sound more generic, since the note above the question says “this essay should be the same for all schools.” </p>
<p>Does that make any sense? lol. Thoughts? Thank you!!</p>
<p>@avakiantz</p>
<p>Columbia has 3 more essays in the supplement, as far as I remember, so I don’t think you’ll have a problem if you make your CA Essay generic - the supplement is where you explain why you chose Columbia and blah-blah-blah. </p>
<p>My CA Essay is semi-specific - I did mention that I am looking for a more active social and educational life, hence my desire to leave the small college town I’m in right now, but I didn’t mention any specific city/uni. (Note: the fact that I did it this way doesn’t mean it’s the right way).</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>In an attempt to keep this thread alive…what have past experiences with transfer to Columbia shown? That meaning, how many do they take, when will we most likely know, and other such info.</p>
<p>Class: 2015 </p>
<p>Applying from: Lafayette College</p>
<p>Major: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry BS</p>
<p>SAT: 1940 (610 CR, 640 M, 690 W) (horrendous, I know)</p>
<p>HS GPA: 3.76</p>
<p>Ranks: 3/114 (private school)</p>
<p>Lafayette GPA: 3.96 (increasing (3.66, 3.95, 4.0, 4.0), with 23 credit hours/semester)</p>
<p>NYU GPA (visiting student): 4.0</p>
<p>Honors/Awards/positions:
McKelvy Scholar (20/2400 students selected to be in honors program)
EXCEL Scholar (honors research program)
Biology Dept. Representative, HHMI Science Horizons Initiative
Campus Lead, Students for Barack Obama Campaign
Admissions ambassador (college and HS)
Cum Laude Society
Order of Old Farms (highest award at grad, for model citizenship)
Editor-in-Chief of Yearbook (won CSPA and ASPA gold)
President, Social activities
President/Founder, Lit. Appreciation Society
President, Art Club
Co-editor, Hippocrene Literary Magazine</p>
<p>Hooks: “Glowing” recommendation from Chicago Alum, Pacific Islander, Gay (if that even is a hook), Great essays. </p>
<p>Goal: MD/PhD</p>
<p>Applied to: Columbia, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, JHU, WashU, Cornell, UPenn, Brown, Rice, Vandy, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona, Haverford</p>
<p>College credit for: APLit, APDesign, APDrawing, GenBio1, GenBio2, IntFrench 1, IntFrench2, PrincEcon, IntroSoc, IntroPhil, FreshmenWritingSeminar, SophomoreWritingSeminar, EvolBio, MolecGenetics, MolecMedicine, CellBio, IntroNeuro, GenChem1, GenChem2, Orgo1, Orgo2, Calc1, Calc2, IntroStats</p>