I heard it was almost impossible to transfer to Stanford, Cal Tech, MIT, or the Ivy Leagues from community college. I’ve never heard of a person going this route.
It is almost impossible to transfer to them from ANY school. Look up the admit rate for transfers.
It’s not impossible! I have seen an MIT and a Harvard transfer from my school. Exceptionally intelligent people, though.
Very, very rarely accomplished.
I know one student who transferred to Stanford and another who transferred to Harvard from community college. Both were exceptional students.
From the latest Common Data Set for MIT; 497 transfer applications, 21 admitted. You’ve got to figure that most, if not all, of these were very good students, the admit rate is quite low for transfers in general at MIT. You also have to figure that many of the upper division classes are sequences or have prerequisites that are not available at a community college. So, you most likely will take 3 years to graduate once you transfer. So, the question becomes; why go this route?
Not at all, about half of the transfers to MIT or Stanford are from community colleges. And admit rates are a bit lower than in the regular freshman admit cycle (post #5 shows 4.2% admit rate, under 2/3 of the freshman admit rate). Here is one from last year:
http://www.miracosta.edu/officeofthepresident/pio/downloads/AreateenisheadingtoMIT.pdf
There were also students going on to the SLACs mentioned on these boards.
As someone else above said, it is almost impossible to transfer to elite universities. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re from a community college, or from an equally prestigious private school.