Stanford Transfer

<p>So I am currently a freshman at Duke University, and was wondering if I stand any chance as a transfer to Stanford (given the fact that I already applied senior year, was deferred, and then rejected)? I feel that I have legitimate reasons for applying; course of study, I feel isolated and lonely here, I would like to be closer to my family, and my heart has always been with Stanford. </p>

<p>Current Duke G.P.A: 3.8 ish
Course load: Very high level french, high level math, intro chem course, medical journalism
ECs: All very good, continued from hs
Ethnicity: half Mexican/ half Middle Eastern </p>

<p>Please help give me some advice, I feel so helpless...</p>

<p>I went to a Stanford campus visit thing, and someone asked about transfers.</p>

<p>The admissions guy said that the transfer acceptance rate was about 1%, or less…
He also mentioned that these people that transfer are usually famous, professional sports players, possess some ultra-musical talent…</p>

<p>Still, since you got deferred, I don’t think it’ll hurt at all to try and apply as a transfer.</p>

<p>I’m going to try, I applied and got rejected last year too. I come from some random school overseas, can only take introductory courses in most of my college courses, and no impressive SAT scores. Just worked hard to keep my GPA up. </p>

<p>I think you should apply anyways, I am. :D</p>

<p>“He also mentioned that these people that transfer are usually famous, professional sports players, possess some ultra-musical talent…”</p>

<p>^^ What?! That is absolutely ridiculous. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I know chances are slim, but I didn’t think they were based on whether an applicant is a prodigy…</p>

<p>Ecullen, I understand that you really want to go to Stanford. However, if they don’t take you, you can look for other schools in Cali that are like the Stanford quality. Claremont McKenna or Harvey Mudd for example.
But it still wouldn’t hurt to re-apply to Stanford.</p>

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<p>Bourne, a long time CC member, was accepted for Fall 2008, check out post #374 for what he said about the composition of the S transfer class that year:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/467805-stanford-2008-transfer-25.html?highlight=2008+stanford+results[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/467805-stanford-2008-transfer-25.html?highlight=2008+stanford+results&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The only member accepted for Fall 2009 gives their profile in post #561:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/658960-stanford-transfer-applicants-2009-a-38.html?highlight=2009+stanford+results[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/658960-stanford-transfer-applicants-2009-a-38.html?highlight=2009+stanford+results&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Of all the most selective schools, S is the one that appears to accept a relatively large proportion of non-traditional and CC students, a far cry from the comment cited above.</p>

<p>Yeah, sorry if this is inaccurate, the stats on those pages show me otherwise. Maybe he was exaggerating. I’ll rephrase that, it’s probably “many” and not usually; it probably helps a lot, like with any college application.</p>

<p>Either way, though, like any top college, it seems like transfer rates are ridiculously low.</p>

<p>^ Not Cornell or NYU.</p>

<p>Yeah when I say top I mean like top-top; the Ivies (you’re right, except for Cornell…) or small LACs like Williams of Amherst.</p>

<p>“Ecullen, I understand that you really want to go to Stanford. However, if they don’t take you, you can look for other schools in Cali that are like the Stanford quality. Claremont McKenna or Harvey Mudd for example.”</p>

<p>Well, chances may be slim at HMC to get one of the 3-4 spots.</p>

<p>Actually HMC is not taking transfers this year because of the increased freshman yield. It sucks in, but I guess they have no choice if they want to keep the school reasonably small. Shame though, we had a lot of strong transfer students.</p>

<p>“…you’re right, except for Cornell…”</p>

<p>I don’t know what your personal threshold for “ridiculously low” is. </p>

<p>But at Cornell, admissions is by college there, not a university-wide aggregate. And most of the colleges have specialized missions and programs of study.
The one college there that is similar to the other schools you mentioned is Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences.</p>

<p>For Fall 2009 CAS accepted 108 out of 1,155 transfer applicants.</p>

<p>The published transfer admit rates for a couple of its “contract colleges” appear misleadingly high because they are swelled by “guaranteed transfers”- people who were previously guaranteed transfer acceptance subject to achieving certain criteria at their iniitial colleges. The endowed colleges there, such as CAS, do not participate in this practice to the best of my knowledge.</p>