<p>By sophomore year in college, what approx gpa do you need to get into a ivy league school. Also do they look at your extracurricular activities or just the gpa?</p>
<p>There’s no “minimum” cutoff to transfer, but you’d need a high one. I’m guessing 3.7+. They will consider what ECs you’ve done. I’ve heard the main thing is that you need a solid reason for why you want to transfer and why no other college can serve your needs.</p>
<p>Ivy transfers have abysmal transfer accept rates. Generally, those accepted are those who were otherwise admitted as freshman admits but somehow turned them or their peers down. 4.0 college GPA students are routinely rejected. I would imagine a 3.7 student is in very very poor standing – but I could be mistaken. The competition for these few slots is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Your GPA is not the most important part of an Ivy League transfer application. I imagine that they use it as a number similar to the SAT for freshman admissions. If it’s too low, that will raise a red flag, but most of the competitive applicants will have numbers above a certain threshold. For SATs I imagine it’s around 2200+ and for college GPA’s it’s 3.8+.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, this number alone will not guarantee you an Ivy League transfer acceptance. My personal opinion is that the essays are the single most significant part of your application, with the letters of recommendation ranking second. </p>
<p>What everyone seems to forget is that schools admit people and not numbers. They could fill their classes with perfect 4.0 transfer students (just like they could fill their classes with 2400/36 students) but they don’t because they want actual people. How do they identify the actual people that they want? Through your essays.</p>
<p>Agree with nvilla here. Stanford is notorious for admitting standout people and not just stats (among other schools).</p>
<p>Also a big determiner is the school that you came from. If you’re transferring from another top 30 school to say…Cornell…it holds a lot more weight to have a gpa thats maybe only 3.5 or 3.6. The main thing though is to impress the admissions board. Accepting you is an investment. They want to make sure they’re investing in the right person.</p>
<p>Check out Transfer Admissions 101. It’s pretty thorough.</p>