The only documents that I recall they wanted were transcripts from my previous school. I don’t recall that a birth certificate was required.
Do you remember when you decided to transfer? Like was it midway into the year before you transferred - winter or springtime?
I transferred after 2 years of college, and I think I did the paperwork in the spring. I remember reading on Columbia’s website that now if you want to get priority for admissions you’re supposed to apply earlier and be committed to the transfer if you’re admitted. Do you remember anything like that?
I’m asking because I think Obama’s records at Occidental must have been as Barry Soetoro. It’s what everybody knew him as. Which is weird because his caption in the high school yearbook in Hawaii was Barry Obama. Why switch from being Barry Obama in high school to being Barry Soetoro in college the next year? My guess is because he was considered the financial dependent of Soetoro (as described in the Soetoro-Dunham divorce papers) and so had to go under Soetoro’s name, as his adopted son - an Indonesian citizen.
The summer of 1980 was when Race Bannock (sorry if I’m spelling it wrong) remembers hearing him say that he was born in Mombassa and wanted to be president someday. That was the summer that his mom was getting the divorce from Soetoro. I think that divorce allowed him to transfer his credits under the Barry Soetoro name even though he switched his identity to be Barack Obama. That’s when he left behind his Indonesian citizenship and went about convincing the world that he was Barack Obama the Hawaiian.
I’m trying to get a better idea of when, why, and how he made the transfer to Columbia - particularly with the timing of the divorce being processed and finalized.