<p>Why arent they transferring to the top schools like UC Berkeley, UCLA. I notice people with high gpa's going to uc santa cruz, davis..like the more reasonable schools to go to. Why dont they shoot for Berkeley and UCLA with those high gpa's, why dont they even apply to Harvard or Stanford?</p>
<p>^^Stanford and Harvard have the least transfer acceptance rate + they still use your high school transcript + your SAT scores. So, for those who did bad in high school, unimpressive E.A. stuff, and not so stellar SAT/ACT score – but at the same time did well in community college – your chances are still super low.</p>
<p>Campus location + atmosphere => what makes college more enjoyable.
At the end, we are only humans; meaning that we will pick the school we prefer.</p>
<p>For example, I picked Santa Barbara for its beautiful location. And also the fact that it lets me wake up every morning to the sounds of waves washing on shore (One of their newest dorm, Manzanita Village, is located at the beach-literally). And the incoming ocean breeze there is super crisp, clean, and no smog what so ever – unlike UCLA/USC location where it resides in a valley and smog tends to get trapped.</p>
<p>Here is a picture of UCSB campus for view:
<a href=“http://www.ucsb.edu/images/design-2010/slideshow/4-campus-air.jpg[/url]”>http://www.ucsb.edu/images/design-2010/slideshow/4-campus-air.jpg</a></p>
![http://www.ucsb.edu/images/design-2010/slideshow/4-campus-air.jpg[/url]](http://www.ucsb.edu/images/design-2010/slideshow/4-campus-air.jpg%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
<p>OP, where do you see 4.0ers claiming they’re applying to or attending those schools? From what I’ve seen, for the year I’ve been reading stuff here, the people with high GPAs apply 99% of the time to UCLA and Cal – and many of them are accepted and end up attending those two schools.</p>
<p>And as far as Harvard and Stanford go: People with 4.0s from 4-year institutions get denied by these places. CC students have a very, very low chance of being admitted, especially if they don’t have super-duper ECs.</p>
<p>^I’d also like to add that some majors are so competitive that a 3.91-3.93 might not actually be enough (business at cal, etc). So sometimes these students need backup options. Other majors too, nothing is ever guaranteed with Berkeley and LA.</p>
<p>To be honest with you though, I think most people with a 3.9-4.0 DO apply to those schools. I’m not sure where you’re seeing this.</p>
<p>The top private schools like Harvard and Stanford hate CC transfers, to put it bluntly. </p>
<p>A couple years ago I think Stanford accepted 40 transfers total out of their entire class, and you can bet that all of those were top-tier CC students with a couple football players thrown in.</p>
<p>UCs and CSUs are required by the state to maintain a ratio of 60% upper division students to 40% lower division in order to provide ample positions for junior year transfers from CCCs. In addition the lower tier UCs and many CSUs admit significant numbers of students who are not really capable of doing college level work who leave the universities during their freshman and sophomore years providing more opportunities for CC transfers. </p>
<p>The top privates like Harvard and Stanford are not required to provide opportunities for transfer students and accept very few freshmen not capable doing of college level work. Therefore, they have only a handful of openings for transfer students and get many transfer applications from students with near 4.0 GPAs at top twenty universities and colleges and would not give serious consideration to a CC transfer applicant, even if they have a 4.0 at their community college.</p>
<p>it’s hard even for a 4.0 to get into the top UCB/UCLA impacted econ/business programs</p>
<p>Re: Stanford transfers from community colleges</p>
<p>According to this 2007 article:
[The</a> Smart Transfer - New York Times](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/education/edlife/22merrow-profile-4.html]The”>The Smart Transfer - The New York Times)
26% of those transfer applicants who were accepted came from community colleges. However, Stanford accepts only about 70 out of about 1400 to 1600 transfer applicants each year.</p>
<p>I would love to see some the applications of the CC students that got into Stanford… but then again it may make me the most depressed person in existence.</p>
<p>I had a 4.0 at CC and I got into both UCLA and Berkeley, I ended up going to Davis simply because I liked it the most, one quarter in and I’m perfectly happy with my choice.</p>
<p>By the time some students are ready to make the transfer they know exactly what type of program they want. This may result in choosing a school like UCD over UCB. For instance, a top CC agricultural biology major would likely choose Davis over UCB or UCLA because Davis has the best ag program in the country. </p>
<p>As a side note, Davis’s academics are really top rate and it is unfortunate that it only has a lackluster reputation compared to LA and Berkeley.</p>
None of these people know what they’re talking about… 20% of undergrads at stanford are CC transfers…
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What you may not know is that this post is 5 years old and everyone is long gone…
Stanford admits a few dozen transfers per year; the total number of transfers is far less than 20% of undergraduates.
However, it appears that, among the few transfers admitted to Stanford, a substantial percentage (sometimes more than half) come from community colleges, based on past press releases. But those press releases also highlight the non-traditional backgrounds (e.g. military) of some of the transfer students.
Just because you’ve got a passport doesn’t mean there’s an empty seat on the plane.