<p>I am considering transferring after my sophomore year(for junior year) and I was wondering how much Ivies (mainly Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Dartmouth) consider high school grades and SATs from high school. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Same answer I gave you on the Y forum for all four schools.</p>
<p>They’ll take them under consideration in a greater capacity than many other schools will. They get a ton of transfer applicants every year, and accept very few of them. Most of the transfer applicants have excellent stats for their college career thus far. They have to use a lot of criteria to select between them.</p>
<p>It’s important to realize that one of the most important criteria is whether or not they have a spot for someone in your major. If you’re applying for the chemistry department, and they don’t have any room in the chemistry department, your application basically gets thrown away. If they’ve had a couple students from the chemistry department drop out/transfer, they’re going to give a lot more consideration to the numerous students that are applying for that one spot in the chemistry department. If all of the applicants have similar stats in college, they’re going to use high school records as a factor.</p>
<p>Admission to an Ivy is a reach for anyone though. When a school accepts a couple dozen students out of a pool of thousands of applicants, NOBODY has a good chance of getting accepted, simply due to sheer probability.</p>
<p>On the bright side, there are hundreds of other fantastic schools in the country, that don’t happen to be a member of that particular athletic league.</p>