<p>I am currently a freshman at one of the lesser-known Ivies. I really want to go to Harvard or Yale -- If anyone has any success stories, please share them with me? I know that the chances are not good; in fact, according to their websites, both universities only accept ~3% of their transfer applicants. I would really like to learn how this lucky 3% got in.
Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>PS: do you think it would affect my admissions chances that i'm only taking introductory courses this term? I mean, there really is no way that I can take advanced courses in my "area of study" ... in fact, I don't even have a concentration/major/area of study right now. Will that affect me negatively in terms of transfer admission chances?</p>
<p>I'm also going to try to transfer to Harvard and Wharton Business School. It's almost impossible to get in...and I dont expect to be able to.</p>
<p>I'm currently at a state university and im taking 3 intro courses and 1 advanced course.</p>
<p>What courses are you taking?</p>
<p>I'm in the same situation. I'm a freshman at a university ranked in the top 15 by US News (yes, I know was a 3-way tie for #14), but I want to transfer. </p>
<p>The difficulty of our courses is denoted by 100, 200, 300, 400 -series. I'm currently taking 5 classes -- two are in the 100's, one is in the 200's, and two are in the 300's. </p>
<p>What do you think? I plan apply to Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and Penn. What kind of grades do you think are the minimum that would give me a shot?</p>
<p>wth is a lesser-known ivy?</p>
<p>rofl.</p>
<p>Exactly what it looks like... an Ivy League that's not known as others...</p>
<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are 8 ivies. Correct? How in God's name can they not know the 8 ivies? </p>
<p>Trust me, if you're looking for a job and you go to the correct employer, they will know of this ivy. If you go to McDonalds, the manager might not know it.</p>
<p>rofl.</p>
<p>lmfao.</p>
<p>looooooooooool.</p>
<p>wow, clearly you don't think very highly of your ivy league school. i'm pretty sure they're all well known buddy.</p>
<p>nevermind, i just heard of Yale last week. looks like a chill place.</p>
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Trust me, if you're looking for a job and you go to the correct employer, they will know of this ivy. If you go to McDonalds, the manager might not know it.
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<p>No... not everyone knows ALL the Ivy's. The ones that are known are Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Outside of that, it's really a gamble. The fact that we can list them off the top of our heads means we actually invest a lot of time into looking it up. Not everyone does.</p>
<p>Keep this in mind too, people consider schools as Ivy leagues based on their academic achievements, when in fact it was because of sports that they are actually called Ivy's. Places like Stanford, Cal Tech, MIT, among such are often mistaken as Ivy's. Hell, I've heard Stanford called an Ivy more than Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Please,</p>
<p>I would argue that any moderately well educated person has heard of Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Stanford. I would say Penn is the least well known of the bunch, but still REALLY well known.</p>
<p>Cvjn,</p>
<p>If you honestly are applying for a job where the employer doesn't know that the school you go to is Ivy League, its probably a HORRIBLE job anyway, and that student can do SO MUCH better in terms of finding a lucrative job. </p>
<p>Bottom Line - If you make a respectable amount of money in the business world etc., you know the Ivy League schools, or at least heard about them ALL in passing.</p>
<p>ummm... what's the point of all of this banter? i agree, anyone in america who is educated and aspired to go to a top university can name all 8 ivy's... however, if you are interested in doing international work, the big names are HYP. eg: most americans have only heard of oxford and cambridge in the UK. however, there are many other great universities over there -- LSE, St. Andrews, Edinburgh ... and anyone in the UK who is educated and aspired to go to a top university there is aware of them.</p>
<p>transferring should not be about getting into a school with a better reputation, but about finding an environment (whether learning or social) that is more suitable. so, please. can we skip past this back-and-forth about the level of fame of each school and move on to determining what the outlook is like for those of us seeking to transfer from one highly regarded university to another?</p>
<p>jerseygirl, do you care to follow up?
your school is definitely good enough but if you want to transfer up by all means try, obviously someone is getting in and people from other ivys do fare very well</p>
<p>wow this thread has gotten really side-tracked, lol :P</p>
<p>well, ok..
Wharton 11, i'm taking intro classes as in like, intro to econ, this first year writing class, a first year calc class, and like level 1 of a new language that i didn't take in high school... which really doesn't look all that impressive on a transfer app, does it? </p>
<p>and i didn't mean to sound like i was degrading my school. in fact, i really like it here a lot -- i met a lot of really wonderful people ... however, the financial aid office is being really poopy and my parents were hit pretty hard with the lack of aid that we got. and my professors -- honestly, they're really not good at all ... i mean, i feel like i got a better education in high school. </p>
<p>so, yes, polska, i really do want to transfer ... but i don't know if i can given my lack any really impressive academic factors.</p>
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Cvjn,</p>
<p>If you honestly are applying for a job where the employer doesn't know that the school you go to is Ivy League, its probably a HORRIBLE job anyway, and that student can do SO MUCH better in terms of finding a lucrative job.</p>
<p>Bottom Line - If you make a respectable amount of money in the business world etc., you know the Ivy League schools, or at least heard about them ALL in passing.
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<p>What's a good or horrible job anyway? How do you rate a horrible job? Salary? What if you're happy at a job but the payout is pretty minimal?</p>
<p>In any case, yes, most people know the big Ivy Leagues, but I think my argument still stands that people in general, don't know all of them, and confuse some with others. We started with arguing the definition of a "lesser known Ivy" and I'm not sure how it got into talking about employers.</p>
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I would argue that any moderately well educated person has heard of Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Stanford. I would say Penn is the least well known of the bunch, but still REALLY well known.
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<p>Ask people on your campus to name all the Ivy Leagues. You'll find more often than not that people miss a few, and include Stanford and MIT. </p>
<p>Anyway, this topic is getting side-tracked. My bad that I brought it up.</p>
<p>sooo, does anyone know of any successful transfers? please? :D</p>
<p>Search for a poster named WindCloudUltra who transferred into Harvard. He had a thread with a bunch of people that got in.</p>
<p>thank you sooo much, morgoth :)</p>
<p>everyone may not have heard of every ivy league school, but the people who need to know - i.e. the people that are hiring for the fortune 500 companies - will know dartmouth, brown, cornell, columbia and upenn. to think otherwise is ridiculous. furthermore, by definition, the ivy league is merely an athletic conference...lets not forget the facts people.</p>