<p>I'm just curious, if you do well at one Ivy your first year, how hard is it to transfer to another?</p>
<p>anyone…?</p>
<p>depends…all ivies arent created equal</p>
<p>try to transfer from cornel hotel management to princeton and you’ll get laughed at</p>
<p>try to transfer from cornel regular and you have an average..to better than average shot</p>
<p>transfer from harvard and you might not get in only if better people than you are also trying to transfer from Harvard</p>
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I can’t tell if this is sarcasm.</p>
<p>Most of what the regulars on here post is complete conjecture but this post takes the cake for being inordinately stupid.</p>
<p>hahahahahaahahahahaha</p>
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<p>Couldn’t be farther from the truth.</p>
<p>Are you implying that the rank of the ivy is directly correlated with your chances of getting into another ivy? If that were the case, students from community colleges and third-tiers wouldn’t have a shot at an ivy, yet they transfer regularly.</p>
<p>What is taken into some consideration, though, is the difficulty/grade inflation or deflation of the school. There are plenty of reports that illustrate the problematic grade inflation at Harvard. A difficult courseload could offset that grade inflation, though.</p>
<p>As for transferring from one ivy to another, the main component will be your essay and other subjective segments of the application that should illustrate a strong, solid reason for wanting to leave. Generally speaking, all of the ivies are great schools; some arguably stronger in certain fields than others. If you want to study business, for example, but your school doesn’t have an AASCB accredited business major (the only two that do are Cornell and UPenn), then that would be a valid concern for transferring.</p>
<p>Research the accomplishments of the school in the particular field you want to study; it shows genuine interest and strengthens your argument.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>I just re-read Tzar’s statement. The fact that he can’t spell “Cornell” should be enough to disregard his comment completely.</p>
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<p>I really hope you mean ‘further’, Jay1020.</p>
<p>Small typographical error similar to the punctuation mistake you made in the same sentence you corrected me in.</p>
<p>It’s supposed to be:
I really hope you mean “further,” Jay1020. Comma before the closing quotation, not after.</p>
<p>Similarly, the apostrophe has three uses:
1) to form possessives of nouns
2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.</p>
<p>Quotation marks are used to quote, not apostrophes.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a definitive answer, coolman123. Like most (if not all) inquiries made by prospective students on CC forums, your question is too vague. What do you mean by “do well.” A 4.0 drone, who’s most exciting activity as a freshman is studying in his dorm, would probably have harder time trying to transfer than a 3.8-3.9 student, who was actively engaged in the college community. </p>
<p>And which Ivy do you want to transfer to?? I mean I can say it’s impossible to transfer to Harvard or Princeton next year. But for any other school, who knows? I mean even within an Ivy like say Penn, there are many different undergrad schools (wharton, sas, seas, nursing). Each school could be looking for a different thing in its applicants, so that further complicates matters. </p>
<p>Ultimately, I don’t think you’ll get any response in this thread, which holds any valuable insight. That said, CC forums thrives on these pointless “what are my chances??” or “how hard is to get in to …?” threads, so who am I to say anything.</p>
<p>Actually, nobody stands a chance of transferring into Princeton. They are the only Ivy that doesn’t accept transfer students.</p>
<p>Idk if you understood what was being said because of all the clutter – so yeah, here it is in a nutshell.</p>
<p>YOU NEED A REASON TO TRANSFER. THE PRESTIGE OF THE SCHOOL YOU’RE TRANSFERRING FROM HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH ANYTHING.</p>
<p>If you can’t find a good one, verbally record your essay and play that Hoobastank song in the background…</p>
<p>Haha, touche, Jay1020. Well played.</p>
<p>Comma inside the quotes? I honestly don’t know if that’s right or not, but it defies my logic. If you are trying to insert a pause, don’t you want it after the quote?</p>
<p>Though the comment was unnecessary, aworldapart’s use of the single quotation is legit. </p>
<p>This forum makes it impossible to differentiate between an apostrophe and an inverted comma, which is used for quotation marks.</p>
<p>Additionally, placing the comma before the quotation is a matter of tradition and style. American rules, British rules, and scientific rules all have differing viewpoints, so it doesn’t matter as long as one is consistent.</p>
<p>[Quotation</a> mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark]Quotation”>Quotation mark - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>■■■■ these threads get so incredibly useless when people start to argue about punctuation</p>
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<p>Yeah you’re right! The original thread was so incredibly useful… please :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>It was to the OP, until people like you hijack the thread and start flaming on the most trivial tihs.</p>
<p>coolman, I imagine “moving up” from say Cornell to Yale would be much easier for someone who is already in the Ivy league, as compared to someone who still has something to prove.</p>