<p>I am currently a CC student planning to transfer to an Ivy in 2013. I never took the SATs in high school. Would that hinder my ability to being accepted?</p>
<p>You need to go to each of the college’s websites and see what you need to transfer (tests, classes, etc). It is difficult to get into these colleges normally and even more difficult to transfer in. Make sure you have some other safe choices in mind. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. My dream colleges are Harvard and UPenn, but due to complications, i was not the ideal high school student. Safeties are Berkeley and NYU.</p>
<p>NYU and Berkeley are not safety schools. Have you seen the admittance percentages for those schools, especially if you’re out of state for Berkeley?</p>
<p>None of the Ivies are safety schools, -especially- if you’re a transfer. You might want to rethink your list…</p>
<p>harvard accepted 15 of ~1500 transfer applicants this past year. the other ivy league schools have very low acceptance rates. for example, brown, yale, and dartmouth are all around 5%. and to be honest, it’s going to be very difficult, if not impossible to transfer from a community college. cornell seems to be the only ivy league school that seems to be willing to accept community college students, but even those students are mainly from New York</p>
<p>you have to be reasonable, and btw your highschool record will be scrutinized as well, even as a junior transfer (but to a lesser extent) and all of the ivy league schools, with the exception of some schools within Cornell, require SAT/ACT scores</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice all. Made me really think twice. Still I’m striving for H:). I’m currently enrolled in the Honors Programs at my school. Hoping that’ll give a leg up. Joining 3 Honors Societies. Hoping to get a seat in the Honors council. Interning in the summer at Disney hopefully. Currently looking for Volunteer service. Any advice anyone can give me per se?</p>
<p>btw major is finance/B&A
with an interest in Ibanking</p>
<p>Expand your list and go take the SAT. If you want IB then you are going to need to land at a reputable school not necessarily an Ivy but as close to one as possible.</p>
<p>Baruch and stony brook are affordable safeties so make sure to apply to them as well.</p>
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<p>If you are transferring from a CC after one year, your high school record will be given significant notice. If you are transferring after two…it will still be given notice, but much less. The ivies are incredibly hard to get into as freshmen, and harder as transfer. Most high-tier schools want test scores in some way. Stanford’s transfer admission rate is…1-2%, most of the ivies (barring Cornell, maybe) are probably all less than 10%. </p>
<p>NYU and UCB are NOT safeties. Especially if you want any aid. </p>
<p>Don’t “look” for volunteer service, unless YOU want to do it. Don’t pad yourself up with hours/positions/clubs just for the sake. Find a passion, and follow through with that.</p>
<p>Thanks to all for the well needed advice</p>
<p>I hope you understand truly the size of the challenge you’re about to undertake. Harvard accepts 1% of transfer applicants - 1% - and they’re famed to accept really only athletic recruits, minorities, and people with extraordinary accomplishments. You have to do something absolutely and truly amazing. I am willing to bet that anything in which you work under the supervision of others is not good enough. You must build your own program and find your own path in order to get recognition.</p>
<p>Yale is CC-friendly from what I’ve heard, and so is Amherst, but under no circumstances should you underestimate the difficulty of transferring in. It is far harder than regular admissions, and RA is tremendously difficult.</p>
<p>And again, I wish to elaborate that your “safety” schools aren’t safety schools. And also I will promise you that without SAT scores you’ll be severely disadvantaged compared to the rest of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>And for being a prospective banker try to land a banking/finance internship this summer so that in case you aren’t able to transfer at least you’ll have connections with the financial world. Take the BIWS course online to get a leg up on financial modeling and Excel so you can impress your interviewers and get noticed.</p>
<p>perfect36: “for example, brown, yale, and dartmouth are all around 5%. and to be honest, it’s going to be very difficult, if not impossible to transfer from a community college.”</p>
<p>False. Go to Yale’s transfer page and you will see they discourage applicants from 4-year colleges and give preference to CC applicants. </p>
<p>OP: Yale gives you special preference, and Cornell is probably the easiest Ivy to transfer into, as long as you’re not applying to CAS or the Engineering school. I can give you the link to the acceptance rates of each of Cornell’s colleges, or you can search it yourself. CAS’ numbers aren’t pretty. Penn is slightly less transfer friendly than Cornell, but their acceptance rate is usually around 15%, which isn’t bad at all for an Ivy.</p>
<p>Regardless of where you’re applying, you should take the SAT. I think all Ivies require it, but even if they didn’t, if you took the SAT and did well it’s just another boost to your application. If you didn’t do well, you don’t have to submit it if they don’t require it. You have nothing to lose.</p>
<p>Edit: Finance is a business major. Anyone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but the only ivies that offer an undergraduate business major are Penn and Cornell. Harvard (and for that matter, any other ivy league) won’t even take your business credits. If you want to remain a business major, I wouldn’t suggest applying to Harvard after all, since even if you get in you’d have to get a new major and lose a lot of credits.</p>
<p>actually, it doesn’t say that anywhere on their admissions page</p>
<p>you would be an idiot to think that yale “discourages applicants from 4-year colleges and gives preference to CC students.” you are probably thinking of amherst, where CC students make up ~50% or so of the transfer class, and they encourage community college students to apply</p>
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<p>Lol .</p>
<p>Peg92,</p>
<p>Most ivies don’t have traditional.undergrad business programs but are still heavily recruited. For instance columbia offers a “financial Economics” degree which for all intents and purposes is like majoring in finance.</p>
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<p>Where on that page do they say that?</p>
<p>They changed their page. I looked at a snapshot of Yale’s transfer home page on July 20, 2011 and found this:
Seems they updated their page and removed the aforementioned statement.</p>
<p>Thanks CC members for the advice. Any more would be deeply appreciated! :)</p>
<p>perfect36: You would be an idiot to think that others make such bold claims as “Yale gives special consideration to CC applicants” without proper backing. Apparently the website was updated recently, because what MitchAPalooza quoted was what I read the last time I checked a couple of months ago. Since they removed it, I assume it is no longer a factor, however.</p>
<p>Yale probably still factors in but wanted to be more discretely about it. Or as @Peg said the previous statement is no longer a factor.</p>