<p>I'm just curious, since I know there's so much competition for incoming Freshmen. Is it easier or harder to transfer to an Ivy League school?</p>
<p>I guess it's harder. They accept less transfer students except Brown, which doesn't give transfer students financial aid.
Also Havard and Princeton don't accept transfer students</p>
<p>It's definitely harder. The acceptance rates are usually less than 5%</p>
<p>Harvard accepts transfers if the spaces haven't been filled up...they usually are. Princeton doesn't accept transfer at all. It's harder to get in as a transfer- usually 10-50 transfers make it into an ivy each year. I'm applying to a few ivies for transfer in 2010, but I've got my backups, too.</p>
<p>Harvard has a 2-year moratorium on transfer admissions. (Harvard</a> College Admissions Office: Prospective Students)
Yale accepts about 25-30 transfers a year (3.61% admitted last year)
Brown, about 90 are accepted (8.96% admitted last year)
Dartmouth, around 40 (8.25% admitted last year)
Columbia, around 100, but this figure does shift as low as 60 (~7.69% admitted)
Penn, 175 students transfer every year, I don't know how many are accepted.
Cornell accepts tons of transfers every year, and admit rates vary highly between schools.</p>
<p>Yale has a site, Ivy</a> League Information Sources, that links to each Ivy's facts and figures websites.</p>
<p>Since when does Brown not give transfer students financial aid?</p>
<p>Last time I checked Brown was need-aware for transfer student, but I was under the assumption that there were limited funds available.</p>
<p>In my experience:
Penn and Cornell are difficult but not impossible.
Dartmouth, Brown and Columbia you need to be near perfect
Harvard and Yale you have to be perfect.</p>
<p>The non-Ivy top schools tend to be much more transfer friendly. Transferring to places like WashU, Northwestern, Gtown, Emory, Rice, Chicago, UNC, UVA, etc is much easier.</p>
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<p>Last time I checked Brown was need-aware for transfer student, but I was under the assumption that there were limited funds available.
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<p>You're exactly right, they offer limited FA to transfers and admissions is need aware.</p>
<p>Er... slipper... careful.</p>
<p>By strict numbers, according to College Board data, Chicago receives 641 transfer apps each year and 77 are admitted. That's about a 12% acceptance rate. I have no idea what the acceptance rate was for the class of 2012 (and no predictions as to what it will be next year), but I know it's a lot higher than 12 percent.</p>
<p>Part of the difficulty is assessing transfer admissions (and first-year admissions, too) is that we have no idea what the rest of the applicant pool looks like and if the other applicants are up to speed with the schools general admissions profile. I have a feeling a 3.0 at a two-year college is not going to be enough for most of these schools, unless extroadinary circumstances come into play. </p>
<p>The real question comes down to how many academically qualified applicants end up applying for these spots, and that's something we can't know.</p>
<p>It's telling to me that most Chicago transfer students usually come from schools with some academic clout as is (some LACs, some top 50 U's, sometimes Loyola or DePaul in Chicago, somtimes St. John's, sometimes Deep Springs) rather than two-year schools.</p>