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Revision as of 05:26, 25 May 2007
A transfer student is someone who thought Columbia would be better than his or her first-choice college. He or she then endured an even steeper admissions battle than four-year students. Naive at first, but respectable. In Columbia College, transfer students have to do the entire Core Curriculum in 2-3 years, depending on when they transferred, and have to forge social lives without the starting point of a first-year hall culture.
Known transfer students
- DeWitt Clinton - C 1787 - from Princeton University
- Gary Cohen C'81 - from University of Pennsylvania
- Barack Obama C'83 - from Occidental College
- Swetha Regunathan C'07 - from NYU
- Eric Wang C'08
- Eric Schoenfeld C'08
