<p>Carleton seems to take around 10% / 210 or so transfer applicants per year. Has anyone here been accepted to Carleton through the transfer admissions program? Any advice?</p>
<p>I'm very serious about finishing my degree at Carleton, and I've already visited Northfield and had an interview there. But 10% is still a really low acceptance rate. How can I make my application stand out?</p>
<p>My D was accepted as a sophomore transfer. Hard to say what helped. She was initially accepted as a freshman, but chose to go elsewhere. So we weren’t at all sanguine about Carleton’s willingness to accept her as a transfer. She did reasonably well at her first school, so I’m sure that helped - they knew she could manage the academics. They did not want to interview her again - she asked. Wrote a reasonably good essay and asked faculty that barely knew her at her first school for recommendations. She also resubmitted her HS recs (applying as a transfer is just like applying from scratch, so everything had to be submitted again). So far, so good. She likes Carleton much better than her previous college. I will say that Carleton appears to handle transferred students quite well. They have a pretty good process for bringing them in and integrating them into the school.</p>
<p>It is doable, but I agree that the percentages are tough. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Also keep in mind that Carleton is on the trimester system. If you are coming from a semester system school, credit for your current classes will not necessarily transfer on a one to one basis - that is Carleton will not necessarily give you full equivalent Carleton credits for a class that you took under the semester system. My D happily had a ton of AP credits so she did transfer as a full sophomore. If she hadn’t had those credits, she would still have been considered a third term freshman despite having taken a full load at her former college. If that is a concern, you may want to ask early for a credit analysis to see where you stand if you transfer.</p>
<p>What are your grades, ACT/SAT scores, EC’s, etc?</p>