@sspears1893 what’s this veterans supplement you speak of with a 4/1 deadline?
@mjr2013 Hi I am a prospective transfer who just applied to Stanford, and I have a couple of questions:
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How many Engineers get accepted as transfers. I would assume it to be low given Stanford’s stellar engineering program, but what are the numbers?
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If you don’t mind, would you mind giving me the gist of your “explain your reasons for transferring and the objectives you hope to achieve” essay? I’m worried about my own essay, as its main points are much more personal and not academic.
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I did some stalking, and saw that you were accepted to Stanford, but not several of the other institutions you applied to? How can this be? I was sure that a competitive applicant at Stanford would be a competitive applicant anywhere. Does Stanford look for a peculiar trait?
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How many 4 year school transfers were accepted?
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Would you suggest I contact my regional officer? Just to get my name in their head…
So I know all of us had to submit a college report. Does anyone know what the person filling out the college report takes into account or what they look at in order to fill it out? I also noticed a section at the bottom where they check a box that says whether they “reccomend this student” and I was wondering if anyone has any idea of what they look at to determine which box to mark.
@CelesteTosc Where do we find the form for the college report and who do we have fill it out?
@neilsola It is through common app: you go to program materials, documents, then click on the link for the forms. I don’t know who handles this at your specific institution, but I would start with admissions.
@neilsola someone at your school will give it to the person who needs to fill it out and send it to Stanford
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To the best of my knowledge, they do not accept for particular majors - they want to have an idea what programs you’re interested in, but it is not like they approach the admissions process with the idea, “we have X spots available for engineers.”
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Mine was both personal and academic, coming from a community college. It basically laid out what I had done, why, and where I wanted to go from here.
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I would say Stanford does look for something particular, but it’s hard to say exactly what that is, and I think it comes down a lot to personalities and people over anything concrete. It’s hard to describe.
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Unsure of a number. Likely single digits, just because I know about half were veterans, and quite a few were community college. With only 26-28 total, doesn’t leave many left.
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I didn’t - I’m doubtful it would make any difference, but if it’s concise and respectful, I don’t think it would be harmful.
Hi, everyone! Nice to meet you.
I have horrible SAT reasoning scores, but I had enough reason to apply; Stanford has always been my dream school 
Regardless of admission decision, I am happy that I did my best for this application.
Stanford
Major 1/2/3 : Human Biology, Psychology, Theater and Performance Studies
Stats (Superscores Listed)
SAT 1350( R-610, M- 740)
SAT Bio 730
SAT Math II 770
SAT Chem 720
SAT Chinese 780
GPAs
HS GPA: N/A, GED
College GPA: 3.69 (All colleges attended including that from a foreign country)
Current CCC GPA : 4.0
Ethnicity : Korean/Japanese/Chinese
Strength : Polyglot, non-traditional
Weakness : Too many credits attempted and failing grades in foreign country, a huge gap in education, not much of a “stellar stats” and some irrelevant course works taken earlier in college.
Recommendation Letters
Two academic letters are from the Department Chairs whom I respect from the heart and they offered me to write letters.
One professional letter is from the director whom I worked for his play production; I starred at his show which was so much fun.
College Report: The admissions officer whom I always went to for transcripts, verifications, etc. He knows me well and had a letter attached with the report; likely to have all marked “Excellent” and “Recommend Enthusiastically.”
ECs: Honors, PTK Secretary, peer tutor, STEM Pathway, occasional community services, performing arts portfolios (SAG-AFTRA), and part time job at food industry
Essays:
Prompts were very fun to answer
Overall GPA all colleges attended : 3.69
UC GPA: 4.0 (94 credits)
Other Schools Applied to:
UC : UCLA(Nursing), UCI(Pharma, tag), UCB(Psy), UCR (Psy, Accepted), UCSC (Cog Sci, Ling)
CSU : SFSU (Nur/Nutri. Accepted), SJSU (Nutri., Accepted), CSUN (Nursing), CSULA (nursing, Rejected)
Private : USC (Neuroscience, Ling.), Stanford (Human Bio, Psy)
Thankfully I have applied to safety schools and onward. I wish that everyone here can get to where he/she wants 
Yes, my roommate is a canadian transfer
@oneTransferyBoi , I second a lot of what MK2013 said. As to the num3, I was accepted into Stanford and practically denied Anywhere and everywhere else. Literally, like all state schools except one! Stanford wants the magic. Honestly, I see the transfer class as the professor X version of awesomeness. That is, we are all Awesome, and gifted, with an extreme sense of who we are, and are often the “nonconformist,” or (not meant in a harsh way) “rejects” of the traditional college student persona, but yet undeniably remarkable in other ways.
As to 4 year school transfers, there are some, but the largest part are from CC’s.
they do not have a cap that is hard and fast as to majors/engineers, because 1) they do not let you declare before you are here, and encourage you to wait a little while before deciding, and 2) the transfer class is so tiny that even if all were the same major (would never happen) it would not cause a lump in any one field. For instance, CS is big here. My cs 106a class started with nearly 500 students, and I think 400 stayed in. Let’s say all 24 transfers last year took it. it would be minimal if even noticable to the class size.
@jasonspyres I’m just back here to say I read just a bit of your story and congrats on your well-deserved acceptance to Stanford. Thanks for continuing to give advice on CC.
I decided to apply to Stanford fairly recently, even though I’ve always known about the school through family, I never realized they would have an Art/Design program for me that almost no other school even has. My state flagship (UW), for example, offers either a 3-year career specific design program, or a 2 year Art program which does not include design, programming, film, or a number of other interests of mine. Stanford has all of that in one major, which is essentially a perfect fit, plus we can’t realistically afford the UC system from OOS.
I would say I fit the nontraditional bill (in some sense), even though I’m about traditional college age. I just hope I was able to explain myself the right way. I guess we’ll see.
Hi everyone. I’m a nontraditional community college student and I can’t believe I applied here! How intimidating!
I received an email today that my application is (finally) being processed. YAY!!
I got the missing materials email, but they already know I don’t have SAT.
@IndirectProofs I received one of those too, as I do not have an SAT either. I submitted a formal request for consideration without scores and I received an email back that they were processing my application as is.
Good luck to us both. BTW, which is your first choice or top 3 even?
So, what was the email like? I’m kind of worried since I didn’t receive one that they are processing mine.
I mean they wrote back and said they would consider mine without the SAT, but I didn’t recently get an email that said my application was being processed now.
I don’t really have a top choice. I’ve worked so hard that I would be honored to attend which institution wants me.
@IndirectProofs I wouldn’t worry about not receiving and additional email. I sent in a formal letter and requested a response, so that is likely the reason they responded again.
You’re so lucky! I wish I heard another response.