Dear fellow prospective Stanford transfer students,
I’m a University of British Columbia student who just went on a gap year, and I’ll be applying to Stanford as a transfer next March. I want to get a thread started, since it doesn’t seem like one has been created yet.
Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.86
ACT: 32
Extracurriculars:
Certified meditation instructor
Volunteer server at Vipassana meditation center
Columnist at school newspaper
Publicity Chair of school’s film club
Volunteer at a Buddhist temple
Pole dancer
Martial arts student (I do tai chi, ba gua, yi quan, and krav maga)
Marketing internship
AV Aide at my school
Additional Info: I am a Canadian, so I’ll be in the international pool of applicants. This will be my first time applying to Stanford, since I only applied to one school when I was a high school senior. Do I have a shot?
Please feel free to list your stats, comment, or anything else you like. We are all in this together - best of luck to everyone.
Hi there, I just joined College Confidential to search for transfer threads! It’s good to see that there are other students on this site who are also planning on applying to Stanford as a transfer student. I’m a community college student from California. Good luck to everyone!
hello everyone! i am planning on applying to transfer for next fall for the comm program. im currently a community college student in miami. im wishing everyone the best of luck with their apps!!!
Good luck to all of you! One of you asked about having a shot. Stanford’s transfer acceptance rate is lower than their freshman acceptance rate. Last year 2,466 applied and 24 were accepted, 20 attended.
Hi guys, I’m applying to Stanford this year as a comp lit major. I’m a community college student in California. Nice to meet you all, and good luck on your applications!
I would say no. A lot of people deferred during last year’s admissions cycle, not this year’s (the decisions haven’t even been released for freshman applicants), which means there are more people coming back on campus after a gap year. On top of that, they all received a crazy number of new applications this year. So if anything, it would be lower–but I’m pretty sure colleges accept the same number of people regardless of circumstances. It would just mean there is less hope for people who end up on the waitlist because there is no need to “fill” the places that some of the admitted students leave to attend school elsewhere.
Very insightful. But let’s say I am applying for the class of 23 as a transfer… Do you think there are a lot of drops in the class of 23 from the past year that they are trying to look to replace?
By “drops,” are you referring to deferrals? Again, since anyone who is part of the class of '23 and deferred must’ve deferred last year (meaning they don’t attend school during the current academic year and will return next year, which is when we as transfers begin our term), it would probably mean less hope for the waitlisted students, if anything. There’s no need to “replace” them if they’re returning. If you meant to ask if there would be a need for this replacement because they are now technically part of the class of '24, that still isn’t the case since there are other people who deferred and are returning among the lowerclassmen. It most likely won’t have any impact on the number of students that they accept, unless they were looking to intentionally increase the number to grow the transfer community, COVID or no COVID.
I’d prefer not to say that for the sake of keeping my info private in the online space—sorry! That’s what I heard from the transfer communities at my school and others that I’m part of from being admitted last year, so it’s up to you to decide whether or not my theory has some validity to it. Please feel free to DM me if you’d like to hear more from my perspective! I’ll stop spamming the feed for now haha.
I’m a community college student from California. Good luck to everyone!