<p>I have been accepted for Purdue Fall 2007. I was rejected at MIT/Caltech/HYP and waitlisted at Penn. Should I join Purdue and then try for a transfer at these places again ( and berkeley/UCLA/Uchicago) or should I drop an year and re-apply?</p>
<p>I am an international student from India.
SAT1- 2190
SAT II ( PCM) - 760/740/740</p>
<p>Have decent ECs/superb recs/ Full GPA. </p>
<p>Essays werent personalized at all. I guess that is what screwed up my application for Fall 2007 at HYP and the others.</p>
<p>Interested in the answer...</p>
<p>i'd say maintain a 4.0 at purdue (not hard to do since A-s are counted as 4.0s there) and transfer, unless you are SET on going to HYP or Caltech.</p>
<p>taking a year off is questionable unless you do something really big in that year, like published research, although if you are set on HYP or caltech it might be the only feasible option.</p>
<p>uchicago is not very difficult to transfer into relatively, harvard and yale are another story (harvard with about an 8% acceptance rate, yale with about a 4% for transfers) princeton doesn't accept transfers. i believe caltech takes about 1 or 2 (basically not going to happen).</p>
<p>berkeley and ucla should not be too difficult, though you'll have to bow out of the way for in-state CC transfers</p>
<p>@elsijfdl - i dont mind settling for any ivy....even penn or cornell perhaps. and is there anything that i can do negate the in-state transfers for me?</p>
<p>I wouldn't take a gap year to reapply. International admissions are extremely difficult, and with the increase in applications expected for next year, they will reach a new level of insanity. Go to Purdue, and if you don't like it, try to transfer.</p>
<p>yeah...go to purdue first then try to transfer...i think thats the safest way...</p>
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<p>nothing can be done, the in-state transfer system at the UCs is a legally-embedded process, they have to accept a certain # each year.</p>
<p>in the case that you would apply to penn, cornell, etc. going to purdue for a year and maintaining a 4.0 would be the best route of action.</p>
<p>if you're interested in uchicago also try looking at northwestern and wustl, all three of which would be easier to transfer into than almost any ivy league except cornell and brown (unless brown's transfer rate this year is as low as it was last year).</p>
<p>the transfer rates for the three midwest schools i just mentioned are as follows:</p>
<p>uchicago - 26%
wash u - 25%
northwestern - 23% (up from 17% last year)</p>
<p>these numbers are relatively high compared to ivy league schools such as upenn (12%)</p>
<p>cornell is your best bet in the ivy league with a transfer rate of 27%, also consider brown, which historically has a transfer rate of 30%+ although that number DRASTICALLY dropped last year, for no reason that anyone is aware of.</p>
<p>although be aware that applying as a transfer basically rules out harvard and yale, almost definitely rules out caltech, and means you won't even be able to apply to princeton.</p>
<p>hey thanks a ton guys...</p>
<p>btw is northwestern engg good? and michigan? and will it be worth transferring to them from purdue?</p>