<p>I hear this get thrown around at CC alot. "If you get rejected from your first choice you can always transfer"</p>
<p>Since I'm not going through the process, how hard is it exactly? I know it varies from school to school, but in general, how hard is it to transfer from a top 100 college to an ivy league calibur school?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>it's easy....but Im talkin about the UC system</p>
<p>let me give you an example...</p>
<p>in UCI engineering program from HS you need atleast 3.90+</p>
<p>from CC you need 3.0+</p>
<p>Which do you want? In general or exactly? :)</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously, if you're in California and want to transfer to a UC, it's easy. Other than that, private schools are a crap-shoot.</p>
<p>"In general" it is very difficult to transfer to an "ivy league caliber" school. It saddens me to see kids who haven't even started at their new school - to which they've been accepted - already assuming they need to transfer elsewhere. And this from a top 100 school? Give your current location a chance. There is no reason you cannot get a wonderful education and have a wonderful experience at a top-100 school.</p>
<p>But to answer your question a little more directly, you can check common data sets or USN&WR premium online edition to get an idea of transfer stats.</p>
<p>Transfer acceptance rate to Cornell was around 33% in recent years; transfer acceptance rate to Stanford around 5%; to Johns Hopkins around 16%. I would venture to guess that most Ivy League schools have transfer acceptance rates a lot closer to Stanford's than to Cornell's. So it is very, very, very difficult.</p>
<p>Which brings me to my initial advice: "Love the one you're with." At least give it a real chance.</p>
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it's easy....but Im talkin about the UC system</p>
<p>let me give you an example...</p>
<p>in UCI engineering program from HS you need atleast 3.90+</p>
<p>from CC you need 3.0+
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<p>This is not very helpful since the OP was asking about ivy league schools.</p>
<p>I would hardly call UCI an Ivy calib*e*r school.</p>
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from CC you need 3.0+
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The OP is going to attend a top 100 school. There are no CC in top 100.</p>
<p>To the OP: It is much harder to transfer to the ivy league than get in as a freshman with 2 exceptions - 1. Brown and 2. all the schools at Cornell that aren't CAS. The abovementioned number (33%) is very very misleading since there are many s.c. "guaranteed transfers", and since it includes data from the hotels school, HE, etc...</p>
<p>Bottomline: No, you cannot always transfer.</p>
<p>Brown is no longer one of those exceptions. It was confirmed today that Brown will now be numerically more difficult as a transfer than as a freshman.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, I remember people talking about that. Credit given.</p>
<p>t was confirmed today that Brown will now be numerically more difficult as a transfer than as a freshman."</p>
<p>i wouldn't be saying that unlesss u see it published on paper by the Brown admissions office....</p>
<p>word of mouth isn't always the most accurate means of conveying information, at least correct info</p>
<p>I called and spoke to an admissions officer- without specifics, this year will be MUCH more difficult to transfer.</p>
<p>and why is that, all of a sudden?</p>
<p>i am curious as to what the admissions officer said -- did he/she give numbers?</p>
<p>Everyone seems to have such a hard time believing it, as I did when nspeds posted it last night, and that is why I called for myself. I suggest you guys do the same especially since I would not feel right quoting someone without his permission and without remembering exactly what he said.</p>
<p>How is the Brown comment possible? Considering their regular acceptance was 13-14%, their transfer acceptance rate will have to be lower than that this year, to qualify as harder. I find it hard to believe that their transfer acceptance rate this year will be below 13% given that the data from college board has said that it has been around 25-30% for the past few years. Tell me where I'm wrong....</p>
<p>If you look at the collegeboard right now it says Transfer Applicants Received:N/A and Accepted:N/A. Transfer numbers have a lot to do with the previous years freshman class and study abroad numbers etc. and can therefore fluctuate year to year. For instance, I believes Tufts numbers split in half from 2 years ago to last year and that is likely what we are seeing with Brown- with the qualified numbers of kids applying to colleges these past 2 years Brown has been able to benefit and attract the same caliber kids as Harvard, Yale etc. and because of this I do not find it hard to believe that their transfer stats will now reflect this. Also, it could be another method of enhancing Browns' overall selectivity perception and elitism to the general public, for now a HS senior may value his or her acceptance to Brown just a little more because when they look at the transfer stats they will be more likely to believe that their HS offer may be their only chance to ever be invited into the Brown community. I am sure this is why Princeton accepts no transfers since I know they must lose at least one or two kids a year.</p>
<p>It's not that your explanation doesn't make sense, but its also possible that Brown wanted those numbers removed from collegeboard because they were unofficial, or something like that. Also, I am confused as to why you started this thread if you seem to know so much more than everyone else about transferring to ivys....</p>
<p>I didn't start this thread, I responded to it. I don't know more than everyone else about transferring to Ivys, I am just relaying what I have gathered from this board and information I found helpful after calling today. I am starting to believe that many people are using this board as a way to have something to do while they wait for transfer decisions, which is fine, although since it is a nice time of the year it may be more healthy to get outside and enjoy the weather. I do not see why such people are becoming so defensive and trying to prove information that has come from the school itself to be untrue. I would not benefit from relaying false information- I am just another student hoping to transfer to a select few schools and I come to this board to receive and share helpful information about the transfer process since it is something that my friends and family know very little about. You say it is also possible that Brown wanted those numbers removed from collegeboard because they were unofficial, but they left them on for over a year and I think it is more likely that since they updated the stats for 2006 to reflect the freshman stats for the class of 2010, they also told collegeboard they will get them the new transfer stats when they are available after decisions are made in the next month or so. Transfer students, for the most part, are students who are trying to learn from their current situations and get to institutions that they feel would better fit them and I believe a major part of that is gathering all information about the school, its programs and the likeliness of gaining admission. I, for one, know that after talking to Brown today and confirming information I first found on this board realized that I was waiting for 4 schools all of which I anticipate having less than a 15 percent chance at and thus have started to prepare myself for what I will do in the likely situation that I am not accepeted to any of these schools. Best of luck to you and I would suggest calling and speaking with admissions at any of the schools to which you have applied if you have any doubts or concerns since part of their job is working with applicants.</p>
<p>I apologize for accusing you of starting the thread, and get for getting worked up. I guess I was just bothered that you seem to have insider info as to how selective Brown will be, but that you can't disclose exactly what you were told. Good luck to you too.</p>
<p>everything changes from year to year, for a thousand different reasons... i'm not surprised to hear that brown has become more selective. it is also possible that, in addition to all the other reasons given, that more people applied this year as well. (I have no idea whether this is true, i'm just guessing) </p>
<p>when i saw the topic of this thread, i almost laughed... it's just that it's the question we all want to know the answer to, but that we never will. there are just too many different factors involved, and each school is completely different in terms of transferring.</p>
<p>with that said... good luck to all!!!</p>