<p>It has been an issue on this forum. It is the issue of Transfer Admissions to MIT.</p>
<p>Please How difficult is it, and why?</p>
<p>What do you (the admissions team) look for in students, and could you please give us the statistics/profile of the last set of admitted transfer applicants.</p>
<p>I learnt the number was seven or so.</p>
<p>Thanks for your consideration.</p>
<p>I asked a question similar to yours before. I hope this helps.</p>
<p>thanks adjlad
i was thinking of hearing Mr Ben's opinion</p>
<p>Please remember, everyone, that as Roger_Dooley stated today in the "Welcome college rep Ben Jones" thread tacked at the top of the page, it is best to appreciate Ben's input when he visits and comments, but not to expect that he will always answer every question posted to him here. I suspect he'll try to answer them, but input from and conversation with many is the main purpose of CC forums so your responses may come from people other than Ben.</p>
<p>7 could be right, I know that last year's # of transfers was in the single digits.</p>
<p>Ben, if you don't mind, do you think you can give us an idea of what the transfer applicant pool is like, and more specially, what set apart those handful of students that got from the rest of the pool? </p>
<p>Had they done research and published? Did they have perfect grades (4.0)? Great SAT2 scores? Great recommendations? All of the above?</p>
<p>How different is transfer admission from freshman admission? Are their different characteristics you look for in a transfer applicant than a freshman?</p>
<p>Also (I forgot to ask) what schools were the admitted transfers from? Community Colleges or other schools on the same level as MIT (ie. Berkeley, CalTech, Stanford).</p>
<p>mootmom, that was why i said
"TO BEN, AND ANY OTHER... Transfer Admissions"</p>
<p>Get it? AND ANY OTHER, </p>
<p>ANyway, thanks, i understand your point.</p>
<p>yes, could anybody answer fyad's questions, please?</p>
<p>Yes I remember 7 seven was the # of transfers. I saw it on the MIT website.</p>
<p>"Get it? AND ANY OTHER"</p>
<p>"thanks adjlad
i was thinking of hearing Mr Ben's opinion"</p>
<p><em>clap clap</em> :D</p>
<p>fyad - because the number of admitted transfer students is so small each year, they are selected by a small committee that is made up of our "highest ranking" admissions officers and Marilee Jones (our Dean). Unfortunately I am not on this committee, so I don't have the first-hand experience needed to be able to confidently answer your question. If I had to guess, I'd say that MIT looks for exactly the same things (as freshman admission), evaluated in the context of your current school and what you've done based on the opportunities available to you there.</p>
<p>Thanks Ben. :)</p>
<p>Please Mr Ben, or any other, How much does the High School Transcript weigh? what of SAT 2 scores?</p>
<p>"Mister Ben" -- that counters a certain train moniker pretty well. ;)</p>
<p>Rocky - the transcript is the most important factor in terms of making you competitive in the applicant pool, but once you're in the running then it's everything else that makes you <em>truly</em> competitive. See my earlier post here:</p>