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No. Ivy transfers are much, much more difficult besides Brown and maybe Penn. Ivies generally want to focus on admitting freshmen. However, transfer admits do happen… you can try for it, but if you get denied there’s always state universities.
The one where it might make sense is Cornell which has some agreements with CCs from their public college side.
A quick google search will get you to a number of links about transferring successfully from a CC to an Ivy. So yes, indeed this has been done.
None of us can tell you whether or not it would work for you. Are you the type of stellar student who might be able to land the Jack Kent Cooke? If so, you have the profile for a successful CC to Ivy transfer.
Going to a CC will not “increase” your chances of going to an Ivy. Yes, it can be done, but successful CC to Ivy transfers are few and far between.
“A Ivy League?”
OP is a HS sophomore. I believe the question is whether supplementing OP’s curriculum with CC courses would create an advantage.
You should exhaust the most rigorous courses in your HS first. If time permits, then look to the CC.
My kid took sophomore level college classes her senior year in HS. She’s at Harvard now. It’s hard to know how much any little piece helped. Certainly it did not hurt
I would say no. For example, I’ve met top notch CC students who sought to transfer to Columbia. I’ve never met one who was accepted.
At this point we should probably wait for the OP to clarify his/her situation.
Both my daughter and son took a couple of courses at local CC during high school because they were college-level courses. Both of them are at an Ivy and Ivy-peer schools now. But not sure how much such courses helped in their college application.
I am about to graduate from a CC this spring with a current GPA of 3.9. There are many ivy leagues which accept <100 students at <15% acceptance rate. Unless you are valedictorian at your CC and have a shit ton of stuff to supplement your application, they won’t even be worth applying to. The only ivy leagues I am applying to are Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia. I might not even apply to Columbia or Carnegie Mellon with their current acceptance rates. Cornell would be the best chance at 22% acceptance rate. But even if you do get into an Ivy League after CC, the amount of money that you will have to pay if you don’t get much aid is ridiculous. I will probably end up going to a state school with a bunch of scholarships in the end. To answer your question, if your current GPA does not satisfy you and you want to transfer to an Ivy League after doing excellent in CC, please consider that even if you get in, it will still be very very expensive.
CMU is a great school. It is NOT a member of the Ivy League athletic conference.
You should be looking at more than just the Ivy League for college. There’s more to a school than just prestige and a good name.
Most transfers into the Ivy League are “lateral” transfers (ie., top college to top college). Cornell admits most of its transfers to CALS, so if you’re interested in Biology, Management, or other fields in that college, it’s good, not if you’re interested in the other fields.
If you mean “should you complement your sophomore high school classes with a CC class that’s not offered at your HS”, yes, why not.
If you mean “should you take all your classes junior year at the CC”, again, why not, it is definitely considered most rigorous, but you need to maintain high-level ECs too.