<p>I am freshman at UTArlington. Ive always wanted to go to Yale.
SAT 1870
HS gpa 3.7
First semester gpa 3.714
moderate amnt of extracurriculars.</p>
<p>I want to transfer to Yale, but I dont know if Im going to get in. I know my chances are really slim. I need all the help and advice I can get...
Please post ur replies...</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Basically… do more. Your GPA should be higher, and you need to do a bunch of ECs. Even then, it’s a really slim chance. Yale’s transfer rates are slim</p>
<p>Seems unlikely, but they have to accept someone. I’d focus on schools that accept more than 10% of their applicants.</p>
<p>Basically, it’s not going to happen. Sorry. I know you want to go there, but you might as well save the time and application fees.</p>
<p>Unless you’ve spent over 2000 hours volunteering, found the cure for cancer and saved the world, you’re probably not going to get into Yale with a 3.714 from UT-Arlington.</p>
<p>4.0 from a higher-ranked university is a prerequisite if you want to get into Yale. At that, many of those students are denied… hundreds in fact.</p>
<p>What you need to do is spend more time at UT-Arlington. Get your GPA up above 3.9 to start. Start your own student organization to demonstrate leadership experience at the collegiate level. Find time to volunteer at least once a week. If you can get work experience or an internship, all the better. Once you have all of those things, then consider applying to schools as a transfer student.</p>
<p>Respectable schools with decent acceptance rates include Cornell, Northwestern, Georgetown, Emory and Vanderbilt. Remember to apply to the College of Arts and Sciences. If you apply to a selective business/engineering program, you’re much less likely to get in.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t count on getting into Yale as a transfer… it is close to impossible, particularly with under a 2000 SAT (even if you’re a legacy or URM). If you have to go to an Ivy why not look at UPenn or Cornell? They are generally more transfer-friendly.</p>
<p>maybe COlumbia, Brown, or Cornell, but yale?
its not that ur a bad student
ur actually a very good student
but there a thousands of people who have a much better GPA, but hey i believe u can do it</p>
<p>Thanks you guys, what if I have really great recs from Yale staff or like great EC’s…would that increase my chance of getting in??</p>
<p>and with that, what would you say my chances are for Stanford?</p>
<p>Unless you have a good reason to transfer to any of these schools specifically, I’d say you’re aiming way too high. It seems as if you’re just aiming for prestige and don’t have any particular reason for the transfer. I don’t think that will be enough for schools like Yale & Stanford.</p>
<p>me too !</p>
<p>this is way more than prestige issues…maybe a couple of years ago, but definitely not now.</p>
<p>and yeah I do have specific reasons…</p>
<p>STANFORD is even harder than yale…lets just put it that…you need all that (GPA, SAT, LETTER, EXTRACURRICULAR) plus a lot more (like reasons of attending stanford, initative, unique background, passion for learning) and even then people who have all that i stated above get rejected.</p>
<p>lol is this serious</p>
<p>Yes treebounders it is!!!</p>
<p>Apply if you must but your chances are sub 0.5%… but you already know this.</p>
<p>Is there anything you have done that will make you stand out? Why do you want to go to Yale? You must know that the vast majority of students will be more academically inclined than you are? You may end up feeling very challenged even if you were accepted.</p>
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<p>Why would you have recs from Y staff?? Your LORs will come from instructors at your current college. You state in your OP that you have a moderate amount of ECs, how are you going to have great ECs by the time you apply in March?</p>
<p>YES TREEBOUNDERS…stanford only accepts average 20 transfers out of average pool of 1200 applicants…yale accepts 30 transfers out of a pool of 800 students…</p>
<h2>Respectable schools with decent acceptance rates include Cornell, Northwestern, Georgetown, Emory and Vanderbilt. Remember to apply to the College of Arts and Sciences. If you apply to a selective business/engineering program, you’re much less likely to get in. </h2>
<p>I believe at Vandy the A&S college has the lowest acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Hi Outsee,</p>
<p>From the looks of all the threads and resources I’ve come across, I would suggest doing research on why Stanford and Yale are puzzle-piece fits for you. They want to know why and how their school would benefit you, and offer you an experience that you absolutely cannot get elsewhere. Look past the prestige and think outside the box. Visit the official website for both Yale and Stanford in order to get a better feel of whom they consider the “ideal” candidate.</p>
<p>Moreover, I would continue working on pumping up your GPA and engaging in more extracurriculars. As others have mentioned, try starting an organization or a club (to prove yourself as a suitable candidate with strong leadership skills), most favorably one that is related to your field of study.</p>
<p>I admire your efforts in shooting for the stars. If this is truly for you, I believe you can do it but it will take a LOT of work and effort on your behalf. As well, be mindful that the schools you are opting for are the best of the best, and also the most selective. It’s a crapshoot basically. As such, you should consider less competitive schools as backups; you wouldn’t want to put all your eggs in one basket. Like entomom mentioned as well, transferring next Fall maybe too early for you, so perhaps you should consider applying as a junior transfer? Be realistic.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>