<p>Is there any way / loophole to bypass Princeton's no-transfer policy?</p>
<p>Probably. Start with a double digit million donation, apply from Harvard with a 4.0 and a peronal recommendation from Bok, come from a little known African nation and be begged for by two big sport varsity coaches.</p>
<p>actually do what suze said but with 4.9 gpa...</p>
<p>tomahawk, that was such a stupid question</p>
<p>it's not a stupid question if he really wants to go there</p>
<p>There isn't. You have to call the admission office and ask if it is taking transfer applications this year. It varies from year to year, but the trend has been no transfer for the past 6-7 years (that means somebody did managed to transfer in 1999-2000.)</p>
<p>yes it is a stupid question</p>
<p>Do what I did. Make a transfer application out of their freshman application in photoshop, and mail it completed with a check. It worked for me.</p>
<p>Ok, fine, I made that up.</p>
<p>tomahawk518:</p>
<p>Princeton (Reach)</p>
<p>think about your question..if princeton DOESN"T ACCEPT TRANSFERS...what on earth has you convinced that there is a way around that? theres not even an APPLICATION! for you to complete in order to have a .00000001% chances at princeton.....if a school doesn't accept transfers, that means that you will never be able to transfer in there..its common sense...no loopholes can exist well theoretically</p>
<p>hmm, sorry?</p>
<p>i havent researched their admission policy at all, just wanted some initial feedback.
i am ignorant - yes, i know.</p>
<p>take care</p>
<p>tomahawk, dont take it personally, i mean, you asked a question and we gave our thoughts on it lol</p>
<p>I believe there was a promising football (or was it basketball) athlete that was given a transfer into Princeton a few years ago. I think it was in the princetonian (princeton student newspaper) if you want to try to find it online.</p>
<p>I would suggest that you just forget about- princeton usually only gives people one chance as high school seniors. One possible option though is to apply as a freshmen and forfeit any post-secondary credits you earned - in effect acting like a gap-year student. There was one guy from sweden or something that tried that last year- got rejected though.</p>
<p>Foxdie, that football player's name is Bill Foran. He went to Purdue for a year, red-shirted on their team, and then transferred to Princeton.</p>
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<p>I am not sure you can do that; the moment you earn a single post-secondary credit, you are considered a transfer.</p>
<p>I could be wrong, though.</p>
<p>foran "forfeited his postsecondary credits" from his year at purdue and started princeton over as a freshman. so while he, as a person, may have transferred, his credits did not. also, FWIW, folks in the know have stated that foran was admitted to princeton the year before transferring, but passed it up for the scholie from purdue. in short, his was hardly a straightforward case.</p>
<p>The beauty of this approach, of course, is that the Ivy school accepting the transfer recruit is able to utilize his "services" for a full four years. (Purdue's Foran, in the case of Princeton, and Northwestern's Dawson in the case of Harvard. There are similar examples at Yale and Penn. I recall a surperb running back named Bartholomew who the Elis expropriated from the Air Force Acedemy. <a href="http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxvi/9.18.98/sports/fball.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxvi/9.18.98/sports/fball.html</a> )</p>