I’ve been looking across CC and I cannot find any concrete advice. Is there anyone who can give advice that was actually able to transfer to Harvard?
I know people who went there for graduate school or for law school after doing their Bachelor’s elsewhere. I don’t know anyone who transferred there.
@Hanna transferred to Harvard during undergrad and also earned her law degree there.
FWIW: For the next few years, it’s going to be next to impossible to transfer to Harvard. That’s because last year (Class of 2021), Harvard College was oversubscribed; Admissions admitted too many students who accepted their offer. As a result, Admissions did not take a single student off their waitlist and had to find housing for 39 more freshman than they had beds for by turning some singles into doubles and by using upperclass housing on DeWolfe Street. As such, Harvard probably WILL NOT admit any transfer students for the next several years – or admit just recruited athletes – as they will not have the room in upperclass housing to accommodate transfer students.
Also, to keep it in perspective, in the past Harvard only admitted about 12 transfers per year, of which about half were recruited athletes.
I know one from Juilliard.
Could I have some information to contact this person?
@gibby If only the class of 2021 is overcrowded, does it mean that there is still a chance for transfer admission as a junior (as opposed to a sophomore, in which the admit, if any, would join the 2021 class)?
@Longntl: Harvard has a limited number of beds in their upperclass houses, meaning transfer spots are directly dependent on the number of students who decide to leave the school. So, it all depends on how many students drop out (or transfer out) in the next year or two. IMHO, as too many freshman from the class of 2021 accepted Harvard’s offer, and the freshman class is oversubscribed, there would have to be an abnormally large number of students who leave the school to make room for transfer students applying in the 2018-2019 academic year. Ditto with the 2019-2020 academic year. FWIW: Harvard has about a 98% graduation rate, so not many students leave the school in any given year.
The Juilliard comment is only relevant to you if you are an extremely accomplished musician. It was to make a point that a special case was able to transfer, someone with extraordinary talent- and that was a year when there was room.
I know four people who have transferred to Harvard; three of these folks I know very well. It is unlikely that by speaking to any you will gain specific information about how it is done. Each transfer case is unique, as you might infer from the numbers.