Official Yale 2009 Transfers!

<p>no claire06, i have not gotten into any school by far. I am from Asia, but currently studying in US as a college freshman. Penn might possibly be my last hope, and I keep my fingers crossed.</p>

<p>i’m really sketched out by this whole different notification times, and admits receiving emails beforehand…if i haven’t gotten anything in the mail, and i haven’t received an email, is it safe to say i got rejected?</p>

<p>Any psychology transfer major???</p>

<p>JUST CALL THEM like I said a billion posts ago. THEY WILL TELL YOU IF YOU GOT IN OR NOT</p>

<p>waitlisted</p>

<p>any junior transfers?</p>

<p>How many students are typically waitlisted?</p>

<p>Hmm, so did no transfer applicants on here get in this year?</p>

<p>I searched through the last few pages and couldn’t find any, none on the thread on the Y forum either.</p>

<p>Are Sat scores of 2220, 800 reading and writing but 620 math too low for yale?</p>

<p>anyone? bumppppppp</p>

<p>In general, your math score is low for Y. However, no one except an adcom can tell you if it is too low to be a viable candidate. Other factors will also influence how they will regard your tests scores, such as whether you’re applying as a soph or jr transfer, your field of study, etc.</p>

<p>Thanks, I’m planning to apply as a freshman so the scores will matter a lot, hopefully I’ll be able to work it off.</p>

<p>I got in. So excited. Could hardly even beleive it.</p>

<p>Congrats excellent! I think you’re the first Y transfer acceptance on CC so far this year. Are you planning to attend FOCUS before the semester starts in the fall? It’s a great program that Y runs to help students get to know NH and do some work in the community. My D attended last year as a transfer and will be a counselor this year.</p>

<p>I applied to yale this year and was rejected. I wouldn’t mind this so much, if it wasn’t for my 4.0 freshman year GPA, my excessive amounts of leadership, etc. What kinds of students did they accept?</p>

<p>The only acceptance this year that I’ve seen is excellent10. See post #494 on this thread. You can check her quals in her past posts.</p>

<p>While a 4.0 for freshman year is great, Y would only have seen your first sem/qt grades when they were making decisions and so would have weighted your HS record and test scores more heavily than what you’ve done while in college. So as a soph transfer, a lot depends on whether or not you were a competitive candidate during freshman admissions. I know that many of the soph transfers from last year had been accepted as freshmen but decided to attend elsewhere their first year for various reasons. Another factor is the college you are currently attending, many transfers last year came from top publics, a military academy, etc.</p>

<p>transfersophomore, I heard that Yale typically accepts transfers to replace drop outs. If this is true, then I think, if Yale needs more students in their music department, for example, they would accept someone who is a music major with high test scores, etc, over another just as (or an even more) competitive applicant majoring in another subject.</p>

<p>Can anyone confirm or deny this?</p>

<p>btw, how do you know if people on this thread are are telling the truth about their acceptances? I’m not accusing anyone of anything, but I just wonder how accurate listed gpas, sat scores, etc, are of people who have been accepted.</p>

<p>Like ALL schools with high yield rates, Y can only accept transfers for the few kids that leave for various reasons. </p>

<p>I can’t confirm or deny your statement about replacement based on major as a primary factor in transfer admissions decisions, but I doubt that it’s true. With only about 20 transfers per year, I don’t think that replacing one music major makes much difference and they can always make it up during the following year’s freshman admissions when they have a much larger pool of applicants to choose from. And while it may be true for a single transfer in a specific major like music, I doubt it holds for the vast majority of transfers and not for those in more general major fields such as science, social science, and the humanities. Also, consider that soph transfers, while stating a possible major, need not even decide their major for another year. My D changed her major between what she stated on her application and what she will declare next fall.</p>

<p>Of course there’s no way to verify if someone is telling the truth about ANYTHING on a discussion board. Never the less, these boards can still provide useful information if you do your homework and confirm information (from the primary source if possible) and always evaluate the source (eg. How long has the member been on CC? Is their posting record consistent? Where are they getting their information?).</p>

<p>You have a point, entomom, but I know the UC transfer admissions (which is no doubt different from Yale’s) reject people solely based on their majors. I was just trying to come up with a conclusion.</p>

<p>On another note, are there any specific trends in Yale’s transfer admissions, despite that most admitted transfers come from highly ranked schools, and have gpas 3.7+? I know Stanford, for example, accepts applicants who thoroughly display passion in a certain field (which Yale probably does too, but a Stanford admissions officer told me the amount of passion displayed in a subject can be a determining factor in admissions), and prefers junior college students (or kids who would not have had a chance during freshman admissions). How does Yale compare or contrast with that?</p>