<p>How are my chances of getting in as a transfer?</p>
<p>What do they look for in a transfer applicant?</p>
<p>Any tips for an ideal transfer application?</p>
<p>By the way, do they have transfer application available for Yale yet?</p>
<p>What should I do from now till then?</p>
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<li>LOW. from Uconn, even lower.</li>
<li>GPA, course rigor, maybe SAT's, maybe HS transcript.</li>
<li>No, they are more difficult to get in than as a freshman applicant.</li>
<li>No.</li>
<li>Study and get really really good grades, and try to go to a more prestigious college for a year-it will look better for transferring.</li>
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<p>good luck!</p>
<p>Thank you for your honest opinion. I'm thinking about UCONN or Fairfield University (private), not quite sure</p>
<p>I think you'd be better served by going to UConn for transfer purposes. However, getting in as a transfer is much more difficult than getting in as a hs senior. Therefore, you should choose the college where you will be most happy if transferring doesn't work out.</p>
<p>I'd say you need a 4.0 in tough courses to be seriously considered as a transfer.</p>
<p>i think rightwing is an idiot....even lower?</p>
<p>hehe...I thought so too and UCONN is better statistically. I understand that it is difficult to get into Ivy League school (period), however, my college advisor went to MIT and he told me that one of his friends transferred from Gateway Community college to Yale with a 4.0 average. So I was thinking since UCONN is more rigorous than any community college out there, don't you think it would be weighted differently? He also said that a 3.5 would do for most universities along with good recommendations and all. </p>
<p>I'm not sure how the "tough" courses in college work, is it like honors, IB and AP courses but in college? Please explain</p>
<p>While I don't claim to have detailed knowledge about transferring, I can tell you anecdotally that the people I know who have transferred to Yale have transferred from other Ivies, top state schools (UCB, Michigan), Stanford and the like with 3.9ish GPAs from their freshman years. I think your college advisor is seriously misdirecting you if he thinks a 3.5, especially coming from outside the top 25, will cut it absent some truly spectacular special circumstances.</p>
<p>I think there was a CC poster last year who attended community college and then transferred to Yale, but I'd wager that person fell into the truly spectacular special circumstances category.</p>
<p>By tough courses, I mean upper division classes that are typically taken by juniors and seniors, not freshman.</p>
<p>Oh my God! This is crazy! Although UCONN is a great state school, it is still not in the same league with UCB or Michigan. By the way you put it, I think I need a miracle to happen. lmao.</p>
<p>My high school transcript thus far isn't so bad, I'm not sure if they would even take my 3.5 GPA in the IB into consideration and all these science awards that I have won for the last four years. But anyway, if I'm not mistaken, a 4.0 in college is perfect since there are no grade booster or anything like that. Is that correct?</p>
<p>give it 10 years and uconn will be a ucb or michigan....they have been growing leaps and bounds...their goal is to be in the top ten public schools in the next 6 or 7 years.</p>
<p>That's quite true as the UCONN admission officer was bragging about how they spent billions of dollar back in the year 2000 for their new "plan" or whatever.</p>