<p>Hi, I just started going to Community College and I would like to know what it takes to get into Yale. What would I have to do in community College regarding, regarding classes i need to take, Extracurriculars, just please tell me what i need to do to stand a chance of standing out in a pile of admissions paper. Also, what major will look good. I am a Finance major. So, any help or advice from anyone will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>The typical successful transfer into a school like Yale is a person who, as a HS senior applied and got into one or even several top schools. Basically, they already were among the top HS seniors available that year. For some reason they attended a different institution. Later they apply as a transfer student. </p>
<p>Question for you: as a HS senior were you a competitive applicant to Yale et.al.? If not, the general 4.0GPA community college student has no chance at a Yale accept (which already is a 2% accept rate).</p>
<p>I think what T26E4 said is right. If you were originally from a competitive high school, how good you were among your high school graduating class could still influence your chance as a transfer even though you are now a community college student. Your history in community college, in both academics and ECs, is just too short to be a good indicator on your performance relative to other competitors.</p>
<p>There is a saying about building up excellent ECs: for many (but not all) kinds of ECs, if you start on a new EC in high school or even in the middle of middle school, it is already too late, even though the top colleges only look at your ECs starting the freshman year of your high school.</p>
<p>Even in the area of academic rank of a student within a school, in one year at DS’s high school, it is said the rank 1 student was decided before that student had set her step on the campus of the high school. The reason is that, unlike other competitive students, that student could take all honor/AP classes in high school but all other students could not, just because she had completed all other non-honor, high school level core education classes in middle school. Since the honor/AP classes are weighted higher, no other student could never catch up with her in the academic ranking game, unless she made a serous mistake (which is unlikely because the ceiling of the honor or AP classes is not high enough for most competitive high school students. It might be just unfair for some students who started to work hard later than other students, or did not know the “strategy” early in the middle schools. (Those who were in a competitive private middle or high schools might less likely be burned by this low ceiling effect.)</p>
<p>At another public high school, the situation was even worse back then. If a student chose to take an elective class like band or orchestra or computer programming, he might not possibly be one of the top 5 students from his graduating class. So, the band director or orchestra director might bend the rule a little bit for his top, state-competition-level students. THese student did not take the class which would hurt his class rank; however, he was offered a teacher-aid job for this class and still participate in the class. The teacher did not not give him any grade. Otherwise, these students could not help the school win some state-level competition without hurting his academic rank.</p>
<p>There are a lot of loops you need to jump through if you are in that kind of environment.</p>
<p>BTW, in case you do not know it: Yale does not have a finance major (but there are many students who go into finance industry with other majors.)</p>
<p>“I would like to know what it takes to get into Yale.”</p>
<p>See: [Transfer</a> Program | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/transfer]Transfer”>Transfer Application Process | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>“As competitive as the admissions process is for freshmen, the transfer process is even more so. Yale receives more than 1,000 transfer applications each year, and we have spaces for only 20 to 30 students. While GPA is not the only factor that the admissions committee takes into consideration, it may be helpful to note that the average college GPA of admitted transfer candidates is 3.8. Given the competitive nature of the transfer admissions process, candidates should have compelling reasons for attending Yale and should think carefully about whether Yale is the right fit for them before making the effort to complete an application.”</p>
<p>Also see:
[Transfer</a> Application Instructions | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/transfer-application-instructions]Transfer”>Transfer Application Instructions and Components | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)
[Frequently</a> Asked Questions - Transfer Program | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/transfer-program]Frequently”>Transfer Program | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>In addition to all of the excellent advice you have received, you should know that Y rarely accepts CC transfers. D1 was a transfer to Y and from 3+ years of data, there were no CC transfers. There was one member from these boards who transferred from a CC to Y in about 2006/7.</p>