Ivy+ Transfer - Question

Transfer Students
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<p>Sorry in advance for my unwillingness to disclose a ton of information. I'm a high school senior and will be attending a great school next year (less than 15% acceptance rate). That being said, I was thinking about applying to the following as a sophomore transfer: Yale, Stanford, Duke, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell. </p>

<p>My unweighted high school GPA isn't spectacular (hovers around a 3.7) but I have good test scores (SAT of above 2300, SAT IIs > 750). I was rejected by several of these schools as a freshman (and didn't apply to the rest), which was probably due to my only slightly above average high school GPA. </p>

<p>If I were to receive a 3.9+ GPA at my academically rigorous college next year, would I stand a decent shot at the colleges I mentioned? I feel that I was rejected because they questioned the rigorousness of my high school courses and the grades I received in said courses. If I were to do very well academically next year, would that make up for my high school grades?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>You’ll probably have the numbers for it, sure. </p>

<p>You’re biggest obstacle would be crafting your story. Why do you need to transfer? I assume you go to a pretty good school, so you’d have to convince them that you can’t learn what you need at your current school and HAVE to go there. They don’t wanna hear about prestige or it will give you a better job or whatever. They have to offer something your current school doesn’t, such as a very strong architecture program, for example, and the school you want to transfer to does. Or that you are going to a top LAC and after a year you realize you want a larger school with more resources. </p>

<p>There will be competing against tons of students trying to transfer to those schools with similar stats as yours. You need to be able to stand out and offer a completing reason why you want to transfer there.</p>

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<p>It’s actually a half year of college work when applications are due.</p>