<p>Harvard has resumed taking transfer students. The following article gives some interesting details.</p>
<p>Harvard</a> College Admits 12 Fall Transfers | The Harvard Crimson</p>
<p>The odds of acceptance aren’t good for transfers. It says:</p>
<p>“Out of 614 transfer applicants, 13 were accepted and 12 decided to attend, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67.”</p>
<p>2.1%–not very good odds at all!</p>
<p>"2.1%–not very good odds at all!</p>
<p>Indeed.</p>
<p>That girl they quoted and I randomly have a lot of mutual friends. Random.</p>
<p>Wow, that is rough – one per house? I am sure they admitted some tough people who will be fine, but I thought it was a real social challenge when there were 54 of us.</p>
<p>Hanna, you were a transfer?!</p>
<p>The schools they mentioned students transferring from included: Deep Springs College, Brown, Georgetown, McGill (Canada), Pontificia Universidad Catolica (Chile), Clark University, and Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<p>I bet there are a few more, though some of those may have provided more than one transfer student (I know Harvard is the #1 destination after 2 years at Deep Springs, so there may have been a couple/few from there).</p>
<p>^ You are most probably correct. Deep Springs is like a feeder schools to Harvard and its peers; I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent another 3 or 4 students this last year.</p>
<p>Any one know if any of these transfers had been on the Harvard wait list the year (or two) before?</p>
<p>Yes, I was a fall '97 transfer, and stayed involved with the Transfer Links program until spring of 2002.</p>
<p>Wow, that number is soul crushing.</p>
<p>@unusual: Erwin was a reject, according to my friend.</p>
<p>@lobzz - thanks! Is the name erwin as I could not find that on this board.</p>
<p>In the article.</p>
<p>Unsurprising. I thought they were planning to take twenty per year?</p>