<p>I'm trying to transfer, and I realize that there is a very small percentage admission given to transfers, but then logically it would make sense that the applicant pool not be as strong as for freshman admissions, because in transfer the guy going to Harvard is prolly not applying to Stanford, whereas in regular, he probably was. So, i don't know how that compensates, ideally a succesful applicant would be nice to see</p>
<p>anyone, one of those rare individuals?</p>
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I'm trying to transfer, and I realize that there is a very small percentage admission given to transfers, but then logically it would make sense that the applicant pool not be as strong as for freshman admissions, because in transfer the guy going to Harvard is prolly not applying to Stanford, whereas in regular, he probably was. So, i don't know how that compensates, ideally a succesful applicant would be nice to see
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<p>Well, I don't know about that. Transfer admissions in private schools are generally done to compensate for the number of regular students who drop out/flunk out. {This is unlike transfer admissions at UC which is a matter of state policy where UC is mandated to admit a certain number of transfers every year, mostly from the community colleges}. Since the number of people who drop out of Stanford every year is obviously a lot less than the entire freshman entering class, that means that there are far fewer available transfer spots than there are freshman spots. So if anything, transfer admissions is far harder.</p>
<p>I know one guy from Berkeley who successfully transferred to Stanford. However, it should be said that after graduating from Stanford, he went to the MD/PhD program at Harvard. So this is obviously a highly talented individual.</p>
<p>wow, thats pretty amazing. hmm, sakky do you think I've got a chance with a 3.87 gpa from Berkeley, very strong recommendations from Berkeley faculty, 2020 sat, 700's on math and chem SAT II, researcher at he lawrence berkeley nat'l lab, very passionate about research, do a lot of it, I am researching with the head of the life sciences division in cancer biology, I hope to get a good rec from her too. I have done lots of science fair in the past, and research in labs. done research over the summers. I am very strong in computer science as well. I did an internship last summer at a startup company, and did good work, can get really strong recs there. i dont know, any chance you think? i mean stanford is gonna be my uber reach I guess. the others i was thinking of were chicago, as you know, and cornell, which has strong medical which is good. i think i prolly have a better transfer chancec at Chicago and Cornelll. but any chances at stanford?</p>