<p>How hard is it to transfer into B.C.? i know they have a pretty low transfer rate...I was waitlisted when I applied out of high school. I expect about a 3.7 my first semester at university of delaware honors program and had a 4.8 out of 5.2 gpa in high school with 32 on the act's. any thoughts?</p>
<p>You're competitive for the transfer.</p>
<p>Any reason why they have such a low transfer rate with a regular acceptance rate of over 30 percent? any chance they'll increase transfer acceptances?</p>
<p>Correction: the regular acceptance rate for 2010 was 29%, it's expected to be 27% this year. </p>
<p>The simplest answer is most students at BC don't transfer to other schools or drop out. So you don't have a lot of spots to give to transfer. Furthermore, getting housing at BC is a pain in the bum. Finally, there are alot of students that want to transfer to BC, and surprisingly they are of high caliber. I'm going to guess (it's a guess so don't quote me on this) that BC is actually within the reach of a lot of good students who happen to go to a less well-known or lower ranked schools, and they don't beleive they could get into Ivy-transfer so BC becomes their default choice.</p>
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<p>That assumes that the transfer accept rate is contingent on retention rate. I'm not sure if that is the case for BC; you haven't corroborated the claim. It definitely isn't the case for many schools: Rice, Georgetown, Harvard, and Yale, for instance, boast pretty consistent admit rates.</p>
<p>If anything, the transfer acceptance rate is contingent on the amount of freshmen who are accepted, which is the case for places such as Duke and Brown.</p>