how are transfers different from incoming freshmen?

Transfer Students
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<p>before you call me a philistine, I'd like to say that I've always wanted to attend Harvard, Columbia, or UPenn</p>

<p>with that out of the way, I did not apply to any of them because, as my credentials listed in the other thread may attest to, my chances @ those 3 were about as favorable as the knicks winning the championship this season (sorry knick fans :D)</p>

<p>My college counselor has said that if I do well in my freshman year of college, I can apply to transfer into other colleges</p>

<p>however, I noticed on collegeboard that almost all colleges require transfer applicants to submit their high school transcripts and standardized test scores as well(I assuming, the SATs? gasps)</p>

<p>which means a couple of things
1. I'll have to take the dreadful SATs again, not that my current SATs arnt good(they are, but only imo) but because I'd want to make the 75th percentile at some of those schools--aka go for that ever-elusive 2400 (:D wish me luck)</p>

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<li>if my high school transcript wasnt good enough to grant me a chance at freshman admissions, then I dont see how a transcript detailing one year of college can help my chances if they're going to see my high school transcript anyway</li>
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<p>not to mention transfer applicants have abysmal success rates, esp @ places like Harvard</p>

<p>the other thing I thought of was that, I'd guess that the number of transfers Harvard can accept is commensurate with the number of current Harvard students who would want to leave</p>

<p>and given that Harvard and some of these other schools have 95% retention rates @ the lowest, I dont like my chances</p>

<p>P.S. does going to a respectable school for Freshman year help your chances? think UMichigan, if thats respectable in your eyes</p>

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<p>There is a great Transfer Forum here at CC where you can get lots of ideas that will help you. Click on “Discussion Home” in the upper-left of this screen, and then scroll down to find it.</p>

<p>Once you are there, take the time to read the long sticky-thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/390861-transfer-admissions-101-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/390861-transfer-admissions-101-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>In general, successful transfer students into those colleges were extremely viable even if they had applied as incoming freshman (i.e. peer schools most likely admitted them).</p>

<p>Transfers are actually more difficult than ingoing freshmen applicants.</p>

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<p>Didn’t someone post that Harvard doesn’t accept transfer students?</p>

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<p>Actually Harvard DOES accept transfer students (might be less than freshman but they still accept them!), mom2collegekids. Why did your daughter or son happen to go to Harvard? You don’t have to dash other people’s dreams just because you think freshman deserve “priority”!</p>

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<p>^m2ck was simply asking about transfer admissions to H since they haven’t accepted any for several years and just announced about a month ago that they would be opening transfer admissions for this fall. Nowhere in her post did she attempt to ‘dash’ anyone’s dreams or propose that fr have priority.</p>