<p>I am currently in the 12th grade and I really messed up throughout high school. I know I'm probably going to have to start off at a community college. My plan is to start off there and transfer after 2 years. How likely is it that I can transfer into an Ivy League? What will I have to do and will they still consider my high school history?</p>
<p>Not to be negative, but statistically it is harder to be admitted to an Ivy as a transfer student than as a direct from high school applicant. On their website Yale mentions over a thousand applicants with maybe 20 or so admitted.</p>
<p>Most students admitted to Ivies are brilliant top students. Do you consider yourself a brilliant student who is a late bloomer, or a brilliant student who faced personal obstacles?</p>
<p>Whether or not you have a chance to transfer to an Ivy, you do have a chance to do well in a post-secondary institution. But you first need to succeed in your final semester of high school, and your subsequent academic setting.</p>
<p>Yes, it has happened that community college students get admitted as transfer students to Ivy League schools - but as college-query said, it’s even harder than getting in from high school.</p>
<p>Why the fixation on Ivy League? What would it prove and to whom? What if you get straight As at community college and still don’t get into an Ivy - does that mean you failed? </p>
<p>Think about setting some more realistic targets for yourself that you have a chance of not just meeting, but exceeding. It will be more motivating than setting a goal that even very top students fail to achieve - and then go on, nevertheless, to have happy college experiences, rewarding careers and satisfying lives.</p>
<p>Possible but not probable. You honestly have a better chance transferring from a state college. Is your “mess up” GPA? And can you afford Ivy? Honestly, you don’t NEED to go to an Ivy League.</p>
<p>VERY HARD. I think the only one that has even a modicum of transfers from community colleges if Cornell, but even they are selective as to which ones get in. If you don’t have a 4.0 GPA at community, don’t even bother. And to augment to the others, why Ivy? Look into some realistic schools that you can get into, there is no need to go to an Ivy. Besides, I assume you didn’t have the drive to go Ivy in high school, where it mattered, now it is about finding the best path going forward, and it is not likely the Ivy/elite college one.</p>
<p>“I really messed up throughout high school” Then frankly, you have zero chance at a transfer to a very selective school. The handful of cc transfers into Ivies in the last decade were SUPER candidates who probably would have rec’d several admits to Ivies had they applied as Freshmen.</p>
<p>I think you should seriously consider MMoms advice. Do great at cc and make an early appt with your transfer counselors to find great choices to aim for. The ultra selectives such as the Ivies are a virtual impossibility.</p>
<p>It is hard, but possible.</p>
<p>I failed out of high school and didn’t go back to school until 10 years later. I had a 3.81 and did a lot with the Honors Program. School became my priority and I busted my hump. The hard work did not go unnoticed, and I was dogged by both Columbia and Cornell to transfer there. Yale, Princeton, and Stanford (I know, technically not Ivy) all take transfers, albiet very small numbers. Harvard stopped taking transfers for a few years, but started again last year. A kid from my CC transfered to Harvard in 2005. </p>
<p>A fellow Anthro major from my CC transfered to UC San Diego, and then went to NYU. She has been a professor at Columbia and Princeton for a decade now. </p>
<p>I ended up going to Berkeley, because it was my dream school and I got a full scholarship, but I am eyeing the Ivies for grad school. My advice is to aim high, research the schools where you think you will be the best fit, and go from there. Apply to some Ivies, some middle-level Universities and safe state schools.</p>
<p>Don’t get caught up in the name game. School is all about personal growth and the best fit, not big name crap.</p>
<p>^ what this guy said at the end.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 so far, attend a top 30 liberal arts college, and I believe I have a 0% chance at any Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>Well, I exaggerated there a little. Maybe more like 2% at Pennsylvania and 5% at Cornell.</p>
<p>The problem is, I can only see transfer admissions getting even more selective as time passes. Transfer rates have been going down everywhere because so many more students are enrolling in freshman year. Maybe a few years down the road, Harvard and Stanford will stop taking transfers altogether.</p>
<p>Heh, I’m just having some fun here.</p>
<p>it is plausible but not likely</p>
<p>Thank you everyone. Well then how about a school like Northwestern University? That’s actually my dream school. I know its just as competitive as some Ivy League’s though.</p>