<p>I was wondering who in here has successfully transferred from their 1st college to these schools: Brown, Yale, Penn (Wharton or CAS), and Columbia (or knows anybody else that did).</p>
<p>I am currently a freshman at the honors college at UMass Amherst, and I want to get a feel for how people structured their transfer applications and what "general formula" gets people into these schools as transfers (even though there are no formulas, of course, but there are definitely trends and statistics pointing in certain directions). I am seriously preparing for transfer as of now (yes, I know I have to give the school a chance and all that good stuff, but there is nothing wrong with preparing in case I still want to apply for transfer in March), and I was wondering what people did their freshman/sophomore years to gain admission to these 4 schools. </p>
<p>Thanks a lot!! Any (positive/constructive) comments are welcome</p>
<p>I know someone who transferred from Williams to UPenn, matriculating as a rising junior. All you have to do is work hard in college by getting the highest GPA you can muster. Getting to know some professors, personally, would be appealing to adcoms for when your letter of recommendations are written. Great essays are a must for transfers.</p>
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<li><p>Read the stick thread on this forum: Transfer Admissions 101.</p></li>
<li><p>Use the Search forum to find Results threads from the past couple of years to see who got in where.</p></li>
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<p>It’s not that Cornell is not good enough. That’s also why I did not ask for successful transfers to Dartmouth. I was just looking for schools near cities and access to more resources.</p>