Thinking of college transfer

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi everyone,
I am a freshman at Penn State - University Park and for various reasons I am considering transferring. If I do decide to send some transfer apps, they will only be for Stanford, Northwestern, and possibly a few other very selective schools. </p>

<p>Do I have a decent chance of getting into a selective college as a transfer if:
-My 1st semester GPA here will be either a 4.0 or 3.91 (I haven't finished up yet).
-Extra Currics: work 18ish hours a week, was involved in a club for fall semester
-ACT was a 35,
-SAT was 2200 with 800 on math. </p>

<p>Also, I applied for admission to Stanford and Northwestern last year and was denied, will this affect my chances?
Thanks for any advice!</p>

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<p>Little chance you would get into either after being denied and only having one semester under your belt. Stanford only accepted 25 transfers last year (2%). Northwestern was a little better at 16%.</p>

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<p>If you want to transfer to top schools, you should apply to those you really want to get into as well as those you will likely be accepted by. </p>

<p>Schools that accept a decent amount of transfers: (ranging from 20%-45%)
Emory
Vanderbilt
Rice
Notre Dame
UCB
UVA
UCLA
UNC
Brandies
NYU</p>

<p>If FA is a factor, you should look at only those schools with good FA for transfers or that meet full need for transfers.</p>

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<p>Cornell and Penn are other selective schools that you’d stand a reasonable chance transferring to. Stanford is near impossible to transfer into however.</p>

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<p>wow 25 transfers to Stanford…
thanks for the advice</p>