Is it relatively easy to transfer from one college to another?

I always really wanted to go to Columbia University. However, I could not get in to the class of 2008. I’ve followed Barack Obama’s history quite carefully, and he transferred from Occidental College to Columbia after his sophomore year. Now, in his biography, it was said that his grades had fallen to the level that he could not get into other more top tier universities when he was in high school. But then he graduated to not only an Ivy, but a higher tier Ivy. What must one do to get into a school such as Columbia as a transfer student? What GPA must we maintain? And do they look at SAT scores once again? Is it possible to get into Columbia as a transfer student with a strong showing in certain activities in college and a high GPA? Is there something else needed?

Keep in mind that Barack Obama graduated almost 30 years ago, and times were VERY different then. It is nearly impossible these days to get into a school like Columbia as a transfer student, even if you were transferring from another Ivy League school. Sorry, but that is the truth. They have so many applicants that they don’t bother much at all with transfer students. Activities won’t make any difference at all. If you wanted to get into a lesser school, transferring becomes more possible. However, you can usually only transfer down or laterally in terms of quality, not up. In order to transfer up, you would usually have to have been able to be admitted originally as a freshman, but didn’t go there for financial reasons.

The easiest way of transferring in to a school (this works much better with public schools than private ones, though) is to go to a community college first.

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