Transferring from Baruch to NYU or Columbia?

MYOS1634
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:10:50 +0000

If you have the level to get into Columbia as a transfer, you should apply from high school: unless your family makes more than 150k you’re likely to get very good financial aid from Columbia (NYU is another matter but you can always try.) Be aware that Stern will be highly numbers driven, ie., perfect GPA and almost perfect test scores.
Transferring into these universities is almost impossible and the financial aid is much less good than for freshmen; your involvement in important extracurriculars will be a very important consideration to distinguish you from all the 3.8 applicants from top colleges yet Baruch is not a residential campus so opportunities to get involved will be more limited… In a nutshell, I don’t think your plan is going to work out. If you apply to Baruch from OOS, it should be to graduate from there.