I am currently an incoming freshman to the American University Honours Programme, but I am thinking of transferring already. I achieved a 42 in my IB, I won the ‘Head of Year’ Award in Year 12, I set a record for most academic prizes won at my school in my senior year. Because of CAS, I have done service, travelling to Thailand to help build schools and Lebanon to interview refugees. I have taught a stretch and flexibility class and I did a summer internship in Washington DC when I was 17. My SATs are pretty awful, at 1980, but that is mainly because I lived in the Middle East and focused on my IB work. I did not realise how important my SATs were until it was too late. My IB courses were HL History (7), English(7), Psychology (6) and my SLs were Arabic AB (6), Biology (6) and Maths Studies (7). I got all the TOK and EE marks.
For Princeton, no. Princeton does not offer transfer admission. Any student who has graduated from secondary school and enrolled as a full-time or part-time degree candidate at any college or university worldwide is considered a transfer applicant and is not eligible for undergraduate admission. Additionally, any student who has completed a post-secondary degree is not eligible for undergraduate admission or a second undergraduate degree from Princeton.
While @Gumbymom is correct, this will be changing. Perhaps in time for you, if they make the 2018 date. Only 125 per class will be accepted, so long odds.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S45/43/35C13/index.xml?section=featured
-psy
3 things are needed for successful transfer into Yale, Brown, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth and Princeton. 1) Stellar academics, 2) a compelling reason why your school cannot meet your scholarly needs, and 3) luck: the admit rate is infinitesimal.
For you 1) is maybe, maybe not. 2) you have no compelling reason as you’ve not spent 5 seconds being in a college classroom. You should be grateful for AU’s program. You’ll never be able to exhaust all it has to offer you. Frankly given the schools you’re targeting, I’d say you’re rather a prestige chaser and those schools will sniff you out.
You got into AU Honors and Kings College. Now you want HYPS and Dartmouth. Sorry but you don’t make a compelling case whatsoever for any of them.
Data about transfer application admission are available here:
http://admission.stanford.edu/basics/selection/profile.html#transfers
The list of schools you’ve inquired about transferring into despite your not even having started as a Freshman at American – the only commonality seems to be a prestigious name. How can you convince a single one of them that you have an overriding need to attend that school beyond your chasing the name?
The policy change will certainly include transfer athletes - for example, Yale accepted one such transfer athlete who made a significant contribution to their football team a couple years back while Princeton’s policy left them unable to accommodate the possibility of a transfer applicant. Housing restrictions will certainly impose significant limitations on Princeton’s ability to accept transfers, so it’s most likely the number will be far less than 125 students per class.
Focus on AU Scholars. That’s an amazing opportunity. If you hate it after giving it an honest go, then fine, look into transferring. But don’t act as though AU isn’t prestigious enough and that therefore you want to transfer to an ivy. It’s silly, and wasteful of money and emotional energy. Thrive wherever you’re planted.
psywar - I believe you misread the statement. Princeton will be increasing its classes by 125 students each, but that is not the number of transfer students that will be accepted. The statement only mentions that a “small” number of transfer students will be accepted. It will be much less than 125 students, probably closer to 5-10 I believe.
@midatlmom after re-reading the above link, you are correct, and thanks for clearing it up!
I second T26. You need to think about why you want to transfer and if it’s purely for prestige, you should give a long hard look at whether or not this is worth your time and money.
We have no way of telling until you start in college.