<p>If i want to transfer into a new school as a sophomore what are my chances. saying I attend a top 30 school and have close to a 4.00 college , with some volunteer and clubs and my hs record is like 2000 superscore sat low sat IIs with 3.86 gpa or so</p>
<p>would it be difficult to transfer into schools like the ivies as well as, duke, jhu, northwestern, u chicago, emory stanford, wustl, rice, vandy, etc.
I don't need percentages or anything, but would you recommend retaking SAT and SAT IIs or what? how would you approach the process</p>
<p>transferring is more selective than freshman admission for most of those schools bc of their high retention rates. if you want peoples help, then dont make smart comments.</p>
<p>stanford has a 1% transfer rate.
harvard accepts 20 people out of thousands.
princeton doesnt accept transfers.</p>
<p>actually all 3 are difficult to get into and i did not feel like writing the chance for all of them so i lumped them in a group of three. and its about fit, not what school is easiest to get into. apparently you do not understand that. i know people who have been rejected from penn and admitted into dartmouth. it depends on the person</p>
<p>I know that transferring is more selective. I didn’t ask for percentages because I know stanford excepts around 1~2% and that princeton is not accepting transfers. I wanted to know more about the process. For example if I reapply to a school as a transfer that I applied as UG or reapply to a school I was WL at. I was just basically listing all of the top schools w/o being specific but if I change it to the ones I am interested in my list is different, but I just wanted a general idea.</p>
<p>So, for the schools that allow it retake the SAT. If a school doesn’t allow retaking in college could I still send them my old score. How about SAT II? Do colleges care after you are a freshman? Or what I will post a smaller list if this becomes less of a hypothetical question and more of a realistic question.</p>
<p>My personal advice is to focus on the non-Ivy top 20 schools. Emory, Northwestern, Rice, Vandy, UVA, Georgetown, and WashU are much more open to transfers and are within reach. This Ivies can be exceedingly difficult to transfer into (exception Cornell has been known to be more accepting of transfers depending on the year).</p>
<p>As for SATs, they aren’t required to be retaken (some schools like NYU don’t even let to retake them).
The SAT is meant to be a predictor of your first year GPA.
What really seems to matter for transfers is your college GPA, and HS GPA if you’re transferring into Sophomore year.</p>
<p>Well, since you’re a Freshman, going into as a Sophomore, you could retake your SATs.
SAT IIs aren’t as important at this stage if you take the college equivalents.</p>
<p>Sorry, if zester was correct, no school would ask transfers for SATs.</p>
<p>They do ask, and do want them because it gives them a strong idea how you will stack up with students at the college. It’s pretty easy to get a high GPA at many colleges, and isn’t at all indicative of how how you would do at a much more selective school with a stronger student body.</p>
<p>Yea thanks for all the help from you two.
I will consider retaking them if I truly feel like transferring. Right now it was more of a hypothetical question just so I have a general idea of the process regarding HS stats.</p>
<p>Redroses, if you’re transferring into Junior year, it’s a well known fact that HS grades and SATs are almost unimportant.
It’s simply used for perspective purposes - to see if you were a slacker with SATs, yet your College grades were awesome, etc.</p>
<p>Plus, those statistics don’t even get reported for Transfers. So the adcoms can be more liberal with their choices.</p>
<p>But besides that, still retake the SAT if you’re seeking a higher score, just for the sake of having a higher score.</p>
<p>Zester this isn’t true at the top schools- they do care. For sophomore transfers it matters A LOT, junior transfers a little less. They look at a package holistically. I had a 3.35 my first semester but a very strong high school record, ECs, and SAT. I got right into 3/4 of my choices (Duke, Brown, Dartmouth) and was waitlisted at the 4th (Harvard). Trust me it wasn’t for my college GPA. To say the SAT doesn’t matter is absolutely false. You want the least holes in your application possible.</p>
<p>Yea I just figured to be safe if I have time I will try and do a practice test and take SAT. I talked to some people and if I do the whole blue book I should be able to improve my score by a good amount and I guess I will try SAT II, but that is what I am worried about</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about the Sat II as much since you will have taken classes that prove you can handle the work. The SAT I is much more important.</p>
<p>I just want to tighten up my HS stuff and my SAT II was pretty weak, so you wouldn’t recommend taking it again in perhaps different subject areas or what about if I am not doing as well in the class or just don’t bother with the SAT II and just do SAT I</p>