<p>I know Princeton does not do transfer admission, but could one apply as an incoming first-year in one's freshman year at another school? If so, could you send college grades to support your application? Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>yea you could... but why? seriously, i'm sure you're a star at the school you're currrently at.</p>
<p>I'm sure you can... when I was there someone asked that I remember and it was responded with "it can only help"</p>
<p>Princeton does adverize it but they do, in fact, take good athletes as transfers from time to time - particularly if the varsity team in question has a hole to fill.</p>
<p>Years ago I was aware of a student who transferred from West Point after his freshman year. He was a varsity athlete, but didn't transfer for that reason.</p>
<p>He observed that no one in the administration knew the rules for athletic transfers because they had never had one.</p>
<p>I was also aware of one other transfer student way back when. A kid from Galveston TX who had gone to Rice for two years. Wound up going to grad school at Harvard for a combined MD PhD. </p>
<p>Transfers are exceedingly rare. I would be interested if anyone could provide specifics for any transfers they are aware of first hand, and especially any athletic ones. I doubt there are more than a couple.</p>
<p>Well, there'sw young Mr. Foran, a current member of the Princeton football team, who transferred from Purdue, where he redshirted for a year. I think the hope was he'd be a blue chip quarterback ... although he hasn't panned out at the position just yet.</p>
<p>A hotshot Texas High School player, he opted to transfer to Princeton when it looked like he wouldn't be #1 at QB for the Boilermakers.</p>
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<p>For more on Foran, and the messy story of a basketball transfer from UCLA named Gloger, see the famed Columbia Spectator article captioned (rather too optimistically from the Columbia point of view!) "The Fall of Princeton Athletics":</p>