<p>Has anyone on CC successfully transferred to Harvard?</p>
<p>I know it's insanely hard but I'm going to be a soph next year and want to transfer. Any pro-tips? :)</p>
<p>I think I have a decent application..as decent as any transfer app gets, haha.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure Harvard isn’t accepting any transfers right now.</p>
<p>Really? Their website says they are:</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Transfer Program](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/index.html]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/index.html)</p>
<p>I mean I would apply next Spring?</p>
<p>Oh wow, I apologize. I believe that’s a recent development.</p>
<p>Haha don’t worry about it. I heard it’s fairly new. </p>
<p>But has anyone applied in the last application season?</p>
<p>Just want to you to know that no transfers were accepted at Harvard for the last two or three years. Good luck.</p>
<p>Ouch, seriously? But isn’t that because they just started accepting applicants last year?</p>
<p>Harvard’s admissions standards for transfer candidates will understandably be even more rigorous than those instituted for freshman admission. Logically, the rate of admission may largely depend on the rate of retention and the possibility for residential accommodations. I believe that Harvard will obligingly accept some students every year though – rendering transfer admission as an impossibility will only act to discourage future applicants. Although recent transfer acceptance rates for Harvard have not been published due to the two-year moratorium, other Ivy League transfer admission behavior is briefly summarized below:</p>
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<p>[College</a> To Resume Accepting Transfer Applications | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/1/15/transfer-students-admissions-according/]College”>College To Resume Accepting Transfer Applications | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>Ohhh so there has only been one set of transfer students? The ones who will be informed before this June? Wow, thanks for that! </p>
<p>Did anyone on CC apply this year?</p>
<p>Oh, you’re welcome. This year’s pool will be the first set in recent years, at least. At this point, due to the developments and large selectivity increases in elite college admissions over the past three years, it is difficult to predict some generalized level of success without fresh data. But that will be coming soon.</p>
<p>Do you mind if I ask why you’re transferring? Just curious - how do you like it at Columbia?</p>
<p>Did anyone on CC apply this year as a transfer student to Harvard? I know that MIT has released transfer decisions. When do Harvard’s come out?</p>
<p>@intenex: Columbia is alright. I was actually all set on going to Stanford until I got into Columbia. I thought living in NYC would be awesome, but it has just kinda…got annoying now, if you get what I mean? I think that living in Boston for a while now would be cool.</p>
<p>Plus I’m in SEAS and that’s kinda craazy.</p>
<p>What’s crazy about SEAS? PM me if you’re uncomfortable putting it out there.</p>
<p>yeah i’d like to know as well what’s crazy about SEAS.</p>
<p>Hahaha I’m sorry, I don’t mean to turn you guys away from SEAS or anything.</p>
<p>I guess it’s just personal preference, I know a lot of people who like it and all.</p>
<p>Columbia is one of those places you either love or hate. </p>
<p>A lot of my friends who went there loved it; I personally hated it. Didn’t feel like a college to me, and I really wanted a college in a collegetown experience for my undergraduate education. </p>
<p>Great place to go to graduate school in my opinion though, unless your moral boundaries prevent you from doing so. In case you didn’t know, Columbia is basically one of NYC’s greatest Real Estate tycoons that does education on the side. Talk to a graduate student at Columbia for more details, haha.</p>
<p>Gamer - I’ve been “coaching” a friend of my daughter’s who is a transfer applicant for Harvard on her application. She’s hoping to hear something any day now. I’ve read that the number of transfers accepted could be as low as 10 to 20, though I think she has as good a chance as possible. She’s a great student at a small college who developed an interest in a very specialized field, and has arranged to spend the summer at Harvard, interning with a Harvard faculty member who is doing cutting-edge research in that field.</p>