<p>Generally speaking, are you more likely to be admitted as a soph or junior transfer, assuming that all other things are equal? I can't seem to find any insight into this aspect in other threads.</p>
<p>It depends on your high school performance.</p>
<p>Generally, if you are applying to transfer as a Sophomore, the admissions committee will weigh your HS performance (GPA, SAT, etc.) more heavily. On the other hand, if you apply as a junior, your college performance will be weighed more heavily (GPA, ECs, recommendations, etc.).</p>
<p>If by "all other things are equal" you mean that your college and high school stats are similar, then I'm not sure how much it matters. I guess that the only difference between the two would be that many schools do not take sophomore transfers.</p>
<p>generally for transfers, they aren't so big on your EC.
i am applying as a transfer and there's no mention of EC on one of them. they don't even want my resume.</p>
<p>it is less competitive as a sophomore.</p>
<p>^^ I would argue otherwise.</p>
<p>If one is attempting to enter as a junior transfer, a 3.7 GPA with no ECs has a disadvantage when up against a 3.7 GPA in the honors society, debate team, community service, blah blah blah.</p>
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I guess that the only difference between the two would be that many schools do not take sophomore transfers.
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I am not sure that there are "many" schools with this policy. Perhaps the UC's? Most I'm familiar with do accept sophomore transfers. Many fewer accept freshman transfers. But others may have more examples.</p>
<p>grey_syntactics may be right that a 3.7 with nothing else to show on a transfer application would not look as good as the same GPA with ECs and honors, etc.</p>
<p>However, I tend to agree that ECs can be less of a factor in transferring than in freshman admission. The 3.7GPA with no ECs might have stellar prof recs, specific academic program reason for the transfer and might get the nod over someone with ECs but without as solid a reason for transfer.</p>
<p>It really doesn't make a lot of sense for us to try and weight the factors, because there is lots of room for Admissions Committees to vary how they view the factors case by case.</p>
<p>Actually I was referring to the UC system. My fault.</p>
<p>"It really doesn't make a lot of sense for us to try and weight the factors, because there is lots of room for Admissions Committees to vary how they view the factors case by case."</p>
<p>...agreed.</p>