UChicago or Columbia?
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Anonymous
This. You're doing her no favors by engaging with her thoughts of immediately transferring. Kids have enough doubt about any college choice because rarely does the college experience immediately live up to the hype. As a parent your job needs to be to be 100% behind whatever choice they're made. Don't support or sow seeds of doubt: if she brings things up, redirect her thoughts to the positives about the choice she's made: Chicago. |
Anonymous
| I would do some research before trying to transfer to Columbia. This was years ago, but I considered it and the intensive first year core requirements would have made it very onerous to transfer there. You could not waive out of a number of the core requirements and would be forced to take them sophomore year. I was admitted but declined for that reason. |
Anonymous
This is true, transfer students have to complete the Core (SEAS have fewer Core requirements). It is why it is better to transfer to Columbia as a Sophomore rather than Junior. It also works best for students who took courses for their major as freshmen, so that they have useful prerequisites completed. Presumably though a student whose dream school has always been Columbia knows about the Core and is excited for those classes. |
Anonymous
| Don't engage with these ideas this early on. Experience UChicago – there's no meaningful difference in terms of prestige and career outcomes, especially for Econ (assuming Wall Street career). If your DD ends up loving UChicago even more after her first year, these seeds of doubt may come back to bite. |
Anonymous
| Didn't they say it's extremely difficult to transfer from one T10 to another T10? I thought they took most transfers from community colleges and veterans? |
Anonymous
Most T20 prefer lateral transfers (ie. from other national research universities, T20s, top LACs), with the exception of HYPS. |
Anonymous
Previous discussion on this topic: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1312685.page "A transfer from one T10 to another is extremely unlikely to succeed. They all have a 98 percent or so retention rate, so there aren't many spots available. And they typically prioritize students who didn't get a chance for to apply as freshman - could be bright community college students, could be military, could be a lot of things. But the last thing a T10 university needs is yet another standard smart kid that brings nothing new to the college." Which one is true? |
Anonymous
Every single transfer I know/I've seen (~50) to T10/T20 came from another national research university or LAC (excluding HYPS). This is anecdotal, but I've also looked through LinkedIn and seen the same trends. These were the schools that took many lateral transfers: Columbia Vanderbilt UVA Brown Cornell UChicago UPenn |
Anonymous
Many of the people in that thread weren't educated enough to speak, and it just turned into a troll session. In reality, most T20 prefer lateral transfers, as the PP noted. UC schools and state flagships are the most friendly to CC students, and HYPS transfers are solely veterans/feeder CC/Deep Springs. |
Anonymous
Good to know! |
Anonymous
Add Northwestern to this list. |
Anonymous
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UChicago is a good school. It has a pretty good reputation because people know that it is decent academically. It doesn't have sports and that type of thing but many students like it.
If your major is something like nursing or to become a school teacher there are less expensive and just as good alternatives for you to attend. |
Anonymous
Someone aiming for those careers wouldn't typically attend UChicago or Columbia, as they have no nursing or education majors. Also, "pretty good reputation" and "decent academically" ?? Hate to break it to you, but you're undermining the school entirely. |
Anonymous
Just as good? Lol |
Anonymous
| If she's a New Yorker, and loves NYC, I don't think Chicago is going to cut it.... |