Successful Past Applicants to Selective Schools

<p>I'm an international transfer applicant reaching for admission to a few very selective colleges. Is there anyone on College Confidential who was accepted as a transfer student in the past couple years to colleges like Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, UPenn, Columbia, Brown, Stanford, or Cornell? Any international students who managed this incredible feat?</p>

<p>Check out the stickied threads at the top of the page.</p>

<p>don’t even bother apply to any of them but Penn and Cornell but even then the transfer rate is extremely low. my advise apply to a college that accepts a large amount of transfer student/ stay away for IVY league type schools when looking to transfer because they do not take a large amount of t students.</p>

<p>“Selective college” isn’t the term I would put for transferring to ivy leagues. I would put “next to nearly impossible”. What puts you at even a bigger disadvantage is the fact that you are international. I wouldn’t even bother to put in the time unless you’ve been working for a ivy-league professor or is a athlete who competes internationally. </p>

<p>I would suggest you look at some public colleges.</p>

<p>LOL I understand what you guys are saying, but as far as I know, schools like Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Amherst are the only ones that will certainly cover an international transfer student’s complete financial need - in the very unlikely event of acceptance, that is. I’m going to need between 20000 and 30000 dollars to attend any American institution of higher education, and I don’t know of any other colleges that guarantee or would probably offer me financial aid.</p>

<p>I’m an International who got into Brandeis as a transfer, which would be considered “Selective”, but not insanely-ivyleagueish-selective.</p>

<p>Hey, milanista. Where are you from? Did you get any financial aid?</p>

<p>I’m from Egypt and yeah I got what I requested which goes well with their policy that states they meet 100% of demonstrated need of admitted students! regardless of nationality.</p>

<p>That’s great! Did you need as much as I do, though?</p>

<p>Yeap the higher end though</p>