Transfer Acceptance Rates for Top Universities (2015-2016)

Transfer Students
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So since there really isn’t a thread with updated transfer acceptance rates, so I figured this could be useful for future transfers. Feel free to add to this thread (I can’t find data for some universities)!
[these acceptance rates are calculated from the most recent common data set I could find for the respective schools]

Harvard College 2014-2015
13/1432 = 0.91%

Brown University 2015-2016
152/1834 = 8.29%

Vanderbilt University 2015-2016
419/1308 = 32%

Tufts University 2015-2016
175/957 = 18.3%

Dartmouth College 2015-2016
29/751 = 3.9%

Georgetown University 2015-2016
285/2056 = 13.9%

MIT 2015-2016
22/490 = 4.5%

Stanford University 2015-2016
20/2023 = 0.98%

University of Pennsylvania 2015-2016
210/2491 = 8.43%

Cornell University 2015-2016
766/4117 = 18.6%

Yale University 2015-2016
28/1250 = 2.2%

Johns Hopkins University 2015-2016
153/1173 = 13.0%

Caltech 2014-2015
4/151 = 2.6%

Duke University
3-7% [according to their website]

Northwestern University 2015-2016
213/1791 = 11.9%

Washington University at St. Louis 2015-2016
235/1031 = 22.8%

Rice University 2015-2016
81/559 = 14.5%

University of Notre Dame 2015-2016
164/640 = 25.6%

Carnegie Mellon University 2015-2016
84/831 = 10.1%

University of California, Berkeley 2015-2016
3271/17251 = 18.96%

University of California, Los Angeles 2015-2016
5188/20075 = 25.8%

University of Southern California 2015-2016
2483/8179 = 30.4%

University of Virginia 2015-2016
990/2484 = 39.85%

Wake Forest University 2015-2016
74/349 = 21.2%

New York University 2014-2015
1883/6545 = 28.8%

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2015-2016
1286/3605 = 35.7%

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2015-2016
1215/2735 = 44.4%

Brandeis University 2015-2016
172/568 = 30.3%

College of William and Mary 2015-2016
411/910 = 45.2%

Emory University (according to collegeniche, not from common data set)
260/912 = 28.5%

University of Chicago (according to collegeniche, not from common data set)
88/674 = 13.1%

Columbia University (according to collegeniche, not from common data set)
106/1339 = 7.9%

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Boston College (according to Boston College Fact Book)
1467/318=22%

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Why is the Vanderbilt transfer rate so high?

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People forget to think about…people that apply to
Columbia University
106/1339 = 7.9%

Did you know if they have a 4.0 2400 SAT in college? Were they waitlisted previously and decided not to attend but now transferring? Are they college athletes?
7.9% is ridiculously low after you factor in other stuff.

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I would encourage others to check out the National Center for Education Statistics for accurate data. Every school has to report the number of Transfer students to the Govt. For example the data on Chicago is not correct. Chicago reported only 28 “transfers in” for Fall 2015. It also reported a retention rate of 100% for students who entered in Fall 2014. This means that the transfer percentage would have to be minuscule, not 13%

Vanderbilt also reported only 210 transfers in not 419 as reported here.

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Some state schools, like Berkeley, give preference to in state transfers fro CA community colleges.

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@CollegeAngst, well, the OP was reporting transfer acceptances, not transfer enrollments. So 419 transfer acceptances leading to 210 transfer enrollments (with the rest going elsewhere or not transferring after all) is believable.

Granted, the UChicago transfer numbers listed may be from a few years back.

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Hmm. Vanderbilt reported a 97% retention from the incoming freshman class for 2014. Assuming a class size of around 1600, that would leave 48 slots for transfer students?

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http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major gives much more detailed information about transfer admission results for the UCs. Included are 25th-75th percentile GPAs and admission rates for applicants to each major at each campus.

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Not all schools intend to have equal size classes at each class level, which means that space for transfers may not be just the space from attrition. For example, UCB and UCLA (and the other state universities in California) intend to have junior and senior classes about 1.5 times the size of their frosh and soph classes. This is done through transfer students, mainly from California community colleges.

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I’ve had this thread bookmarked for a while now, thank you for the compilation! I’ll throw in a few, which happen to be some that I’m applying to as well.

Pomona College 2015-2016
20/356 = 5.6%

Haverford College 2015-2016
24/159 = 15.1%

Swarthmore College 2015-2016
18/212 = 8.49%

Some of these aren’t very encouraging but that’s to be expected at these heights. I was very pleasantly surprised with Vanderbilt’s admission rate, it’s one of my top choices too.

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Providence College:
156/285 = 54%

UMass Amherst:
1939/3297 = 58%

Northeastern:
1173/3243 = 36%

Boston University:
1575/3547 = 44%

These are via the College Board website