Please help match a confused freshman!

donpon11
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:04:01 +0000

I’m interested in Columbia as well. But I don’t think I’m a terribly competitive applicant, because Columbia only takes around 60 transfers a year. Can somebody shed some light on the emphasis placed on high school grades vs 1st semester freshman grades? I only had a 92 average in high school but I have a 4.0 at SUNY Binghamton. I’d be applying as an english major and I write for the newspaper and have a 790 verbal score for the sat (1440). If so much emphasis is placed on high school grades, should I even bother?