<p>I was admitted to a Top 23 school last year, but because of my dad's financial problem I had to attend a community college. I want to transfer to Yale, Penn or UChicago as a Junior next year. I heard these three schools are not CC friendly. Has anybody heard these three schools have ever admitted CC transfer? </p>
<p>High school GPA: 3.86
CC GPA: 4.0 by now
SAT1: 2160
EC: many leadership positions, PTK member </p>
<p>I’m not familiar with UChicago or Penn, but I know that Y admits very few CC students. My D1 transferred to Y as a soph and there were not CC transfers the 3 years she was there. A year before she transfered, they did accept a CC student who was actually a member here on College Confidential.</p>
<p>entomon: Thank you again for your reply. Do you think I am competitive enough for Yale since your D1 ever transferred to Yale. You must have some opinions. </p>
<p>What leadership positions do you have exactly? And what have you done specifically with those leadership positions? Anything reported in the school newspaper? If the answer is no then your chances are probably low.</p>
<p>Pete,
I’m afraid I don’t believe in/do Chances, particularly for transfers where what schools are looking for is less well defined and variable than for fr admissions, and where there are so many more factors taken into consideration.</p>
<p>I think you’ve done all you can grade-wise with a 4.0 and there’s no reason to retake a 2100+ SAT. If one assumes that the adcoms believe you can be successful at Y based on your academic record, then it comes down to what you can bring to the college, why you want to transfer, etc. LORs may also be more important coming from a CC than for soph transfers.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t try to dissuade you from applying to selective schools, but I would urge you to apply to admissions and financial safety and match schools as well, since you don’t have the option of staying where you are.</p>
<p>Peter, I wasn’t really talking about the positions, but what you accomplished. Since you haven’t really said what you’ve accomplished I’ll have to assume that you haven’t done anything with your leadership positions. In this case, you have little chance (like everyone really) at these schools. </p>
<p>You might be able to get into Chicago, though.</p>
<p>Yeah, it has an acceptance rate that’s about the same as UPenn, but UChicago likes community college transfers apparently. They were at a PTK event in Boston last summer. So there’s a little hope. (Of course I’m generally optimistic so…)</p>
<p>One more thought. You might want to consider Stanford in lieu of Y. S has been shown to be much more open to NT students, including from CCs (thought they may prefer CA CCs only, I’m not sure). While their transfer rate is about the same as Y, some years NT students have made up as much as half of their transfer class.</p>
<p>“Yeah, it has an acceptance rate that’s about the same as UPenn, but UChicago likes community college transfers apparently.”</p>
<p>UChicago has a transfer acceptance rate of less than 5%. Penn’s is in the teens. The likelihood of getting into Penn as a transfer is probably higher than getting into Chicago.</p>
<p>Also don’t know where you got the notion that Chicago likes CC transfers. The only transfers I knew during my time there were from top-30 schools, and that was back when the admit rate was a bit higher.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s on the Collegeboard website (which is not working for me at the moment). Look at the Admissions tab on the Chicago page, and you’ll see Chicago below 5% for transfers. It was just updated last week, so that’s why you probably haven’t seen it. Penn probably had its own drop as well, but likely not as significant (something like 12-13%, I imagine). </p>
<p>Also, Chicago admitted something like less than 50 transfer students total last year, and so based on that figure, I imagine that the vast majority of those students were from top-30 universities or top-10 LACs.</p>