<p>out of the top 25 or so colleges in the US, which one has the easiest, most streamlined process of transfer admission?
for example, i'd put harvard as a no on this forum because they accept <5% of the transfer applicants, and make it known that it is hard to transfer. </p>
<p>what i am looking for is the opposite. help!</p>
<p>Hmm... UCLA, probably. I think it had 40% acceptance rate for transfers in recent years. It even has a guarantee option (well, nearly so):</p>
<p>The</a> Daily Bruin - Transfer hopefuls tap program for assistance</p>
<p>It was 36% this year.</p>
<p>UCLA</a> Undergrad Admissions: Profile of Admitted Transfer Students, Fall 2008</p>
<p>probably Cornell...in addition to the Guaranteed Transfer program they accept quite a few. LACs are probably quite difficult as are any very small schools...Dartmouth, Brown. Princeton has no transfers. Anyway, it's not IMPOSSIBLE for the smaller schools, it's just the larger ones tend to have more open spaces even with the same attrition rate.</p>
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Dartmouth, Brown. Princeton has no transfers.
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Well, I know someone this year who got into brown as a transfer from Gtown</p>
<p>To the OP: Well, it's impossible to transfer into Harvard because they no longer accept transfer applications</p>
<p>Be careful with Cornell though, I'm pretty sure the higher acceptance rate for transfers includes the Guarenteed Transfers (so it's misleading)</p>
<p>Top Private Schools with transfer acceptance rates above 20%...Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Rice, USC, Vandy, Wake Forest, WUSTL</p>
<p>Top Publics with transfer acceptance rates around 40%: Michigan, UCLA, UNC, UVA
(Berkeley's transfer acceptance rate is closer to 30%)
*UNC doesn't take residency into consideration for Transfer Applicants</p>
<p>The top publics, UNC, Michigan, UCB, UCLA, UVA are comparatively easy compared to their peers.</p>
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To the OP: Well, it's impossible to transfer into Harvard because they no longer accept transfer applications
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<p>I believe Harvard only put a 2-year moratorium on transfers.</p>
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Berkeley's transfer acceptance rate is closer to 30%
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<p>Its transfer acceptance rate was 24% this year, I think. (Comparable to its freshman acceptance rate--21%).</p>
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The top publics, UNC, Michigan, UCB, UCLA, UVA are comparatively easy compared to their peers.
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<p>Depends on what you mean by 'peers'--elitist view or realistic view? ;)</p>
<p>Michigan is very easy to transfer into.</p>
<p>The publics are the easiest to transfer into among the top 25 schools.</p>
<p>Milkmagn...
The poster put a period between Brown and Princeton.</p>
<p>Princeton and Harvard are the toughest- in the sense that they don't accept any!</p>
<p>I also know of someone who transferred into Brown this year- from NYU.
Publics are the easiest and I heard good things about Cornell BUT I know that there was someone on this forum who didn't get Cornell transfer but got Chicago/Notre Dame- so I don't really know how easy Cornell is.</p>
<p>Berkeley's transfer rate for the Fall 07 entering class was almost exactly 30%.</p>
<p>Transfer Students
Total number of transfer students who applied: 11,041
Total number of transfer students who were admitted: 3,311 </p>
<p>College</a> Search - University of California: Berkeley - Cal - Admission</p>
<p>Berkeley's #s from 07...</p>
<p>Non-Resident Applicants........330
Non-Resident Acceptance......32
Non-Resident Acceptance %...10%</p>
<p>From what I've seen on CC, Berkeley and UCLA are really hard to get into from OOS, whereas Michigan and UVA are a little bit easier. UNC is by far the easiest Top 30 Public to get into as a transfer.</p>
<p>My niece had a 3.9 cumulative GPA at MSU in honors classes after her sophomore year and she couldn't transfer into LSA at U-M. Michigan is NOT an easy school to transfer into.</p>
<p>The first two things I think of are (1) anti MSU bias on the part of Michigan or, (2) a "gentleman's agreement" not to poach MSUs top students.
I have no first hand information about Michigan's practices.</p>
<p>^agree with a bove poster, something is def fishy about the transfers between MSU and Umich, i know some kids with 3.2's who transfer into engineering and 4.0 's who didn't get into LSA??????</p>
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<p>Yes, but this year's is much closer to the freshman admit rate (~24% and 21% respectively).</p>
<p>"Gentleman's agreement"? This isn't football now... :)</p>
<p>I know of 3 kids who have successfully transferred to Michigan with under 3.4 GPAs. For a top 25 school, that is pretty easy.</p>
<p>rjkofnovi, your niece's case is certainly the (rare) exception and not the rule. I've a couple MSU students, with sub-3.0 GPA's, transfer to U-M. It's not that hard.</p>
<p>It is becoming harder to transfer into Michigan. Back in the day, Michigan's yield rate hovered around 40% and Michigan's graduation rate hovered around 80%. Michigan's yield rate is now close to 50% and Michigan graduation rate is close to 90%. As such, Michigan's transfer acceptance rate is steadily diclining. </p>
<p>Still, relatively speaking, Michigan is one of the easier top university to transfer into.</p>