Shifting from Columbia Engineering to Columbia College

beard_tax
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:09:22 +0000

Just a side note, I also think that’s it would theoretically be easier for CC students to gain admission to SEAS than for SEAS students to gain admission to CC. There is a significant group of students in SEAS who find that engineering is not for them, whereas CC has the flexibility to offer quantitative (mathematics, statistics, computer science) and liberal arts majors. Whereas a CC student can choose between the humanities and the sciences, a SEAS student cannot without transferring to the College.

The admissions committee does take into account the cross-flows between SEAS and CC, and I think it’s generally a one-way street: SEAS students who find that they dislike engineering.