Tips on getting into Yale as a transfer student

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I am a high school senior currently and I was wondering if anybody can give me some tips on getting into Penn as a transfer student. I plan on applying as an incoming sophomore. Things like what college should I choose, extra-curriculars, essays, grades etc would be helpful.

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See what notjoe and myself posted on your Harvard thread with the same question: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1769400-tips-on-getting-into-harvard-as-a-transfer-student.html#latest. Yale is going to be just as difficult for transfers as Harvard. See: http://admissions.yale.edu/transfer

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If you apply to multiple colleges, proofread your applications carefully to make sure you are referring to the right college.

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Nm

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Go do something better with your time instead of trying to belittle others on college confidential. You obviously know what I meant.

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^^ Sorry, @laker2424, but you have the classic “I’m attending my backup school” attitude. Here’s a truth you need to wrap your head around: If you want to be admitted as a transfer applicant, you must submit recommendations from college professors who respect, admire and love you. But, in order to respect, admire and love you, you must show them you are one of the top students in their class. In other words, you must fall in-love with the college that feel in-love with you. And that’s difficult to do when you’re feeling resentment for being rejected by HYP and the rest of the ivies. Unless you change your attitude and embrace the college you are matriculating to, you stand a zero chance of being admitted anywhere as a transfer applicant, as Admissions Officers will be looking to your college professors for clues as to your character, ambition, determination and drive. Best of luck to you in the next four years, and may your bitterness decrease with time.

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Transfers to Ivies are pretty much “exception cases.” There is some exceptional reason for the transfer. Some unique quality about the student or the circumstances in which he/she finds him/herself that urges the school forth to accept the student as a transfer.

Being an Ivy League reject is not an exception case.

There is life after Ivy rejection. Go live it.