<p>I've heard they prefer community college students, or students that had no way of getting into Stanford as a freshman. </p>
<p>Yet, I found this article Stanford released in 1994- back then when they used to accept over 100 transfers instead of the 20 today- stating most Stanford transfers were very successful in highschool, with gpas ranging 3.7+</p>
<p>Does anyone have any tips on how to be a competitive transfer applicant? I mean, what kind if a profile do ppl who get accepted have?</p>
<p>Is there anyone even on this board who got in? </p>
<p>No, actually, I think it's harder to transfer from Harvard to Stanford, because then you'd have no good reason to explain in your essay why you want to transfer to Stanford in the first place.</p>
<p>I am assuming that u have to be hella godly in order to be accepted as a transfer. Just look at the stats...its like...not even 1%!? (keeping in mind that u r competiting with many other bright college students too)</p>
<p>You do have to be hella godly. And you better have a good reason why you didn't apply out of high school-military service, financial/social difficulties, attacked by Martians, etc.</p>
<p>not godly, just a CCC student who was president of a club who did nothing and an honors student. ALL of us were surprised, even the honors director/our teach. p.s. not to put any races down or anything, but he played the poor mexican card in his essays. He jokes about it all the time. Gpa 3.8something. Just took a prescribed honors program. SAts 2100ish wouldnt say exactly. Major:GeRMAn?!!/!! ECs: lived in a 1 br apartment with 6 ppl in la, so nothing bc he had to work as a oil spill cleaner guy at the local exxon mobil refinery. </p>
<p>read his essays....mine were more well written. His tho, talked about the apartment thing. </p>
<p>me: super rejected
him: accepted transfer!!</p>