<p>Hello CC! My name is Drew and I'm currently a sophomore gov't major at Georgetown University. I was wondering what my transfer chances are to the following schools:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth</p>
<p>My GPA will be in the 3.85 - 3.9 range at the end of this semester. I hold a couple leadership positions on campus and I'm pretty involved. I scored in the 1500s / 2200s on the SAT I. What are my chances?</p>
<p>Someone correct me if I'm wrong...but I don't believe Harvard accepts transfer students.</p>
<p>It would be great if they didn't take into account SAT scores, but they will, even as a transfer student. You need to retake them to stand a chance.</p>
<p>Why do you want to transfer out of Georgetown. What is your perceived benefit of upgrading to an Ivy League?</p>
<p>liek, are you misreading? I think 1500/1600 SATs are close to as good as it gets.</p>
<p>Sounds like a reasonable chance, but Ivies are crapshoot for anybody. Also, Harvard doesn't take transfers =(</p>
<p>i read it as 1500 out of 2200. My mistake, i knew the 2200 read wrong when the limit is 2400.</p>
<p>Your chances are excellent, but if you're set on transferring, you need a safety.</p>
<p>As for why I'm transferring - Call it a sophomore slump, I just think it'd be cool to go to another school and I really like all of the schools I plan on applying to. </p>
<p>As for "safety," I don't dislike georgetown enough that I'd want to transfer to a school with a worse reputation. What would be a "safety" for me anyways? </p>
<p>Also could anyone comment on my chances of transfer to Duke University? </p>
<p>And could you be more specific on "excellent" chances....do I stand a better than 50% chance at getting into one of these schools? The only reason I ask is because it's a HELL of a lot of work to do on top of all my other academic/extracurricular commitments. If its an exercise in futility, it may not be worth it.</p>
<p>And yeah I got 1500s on the Old Scale, 2200s on the New Scale</p>
<p>Since I know I'm going to get jumped on for not being more specific - while Georgetown is a good school, I think I'd rather go to a more intellectual environment, and I think it exists at the above schools. Plus, all of my friends here are just like my high school friends (I'm from northern New Jersey) and I'd like to see more diversity. Furthermore, I've grown a bit tired of living in Washington and I really want a change of scenery.</p>
<p>And Harvard does accept transfers according to College Board....you may be thinking of Princeton</p>
<p>Harvard will not accept transfers for the next couple of years. College Board doesn't update often enough.</p>
<p>"Harvard
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth"</p>
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<li>Harvard isn't accepting transfers for the next application period (fall 2009)</li>
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<p>"As for why I'm transferring - Call it a sophomore slump, I just think it'd be cool to go to another school and I really like all of the schools I plan on applying to."</p>
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<li>'thinking it would be cool' will get you laughed at by the admissions staff. You are up against extremely talented applicants, many of whom come from sub-par schools. Most if not all of those accepted will have convincing reasons for transfer.</li>
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<p>"do I stand a better than 50% chance at getting into one of these schools?"</p>
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<li>No. All five schools have transfer rates below 10%.</li>
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Harvard isn't accepting transfers for the next application period (fall 2009)
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<p>I thought so....I know Harvard and Princeton weren't accepting transfers back in the day when I was looking to transfer</p>
<p>To the OP: the schools you listed are complete crap shoots...from lurking around on this forum I get the idea that transfer admission at Yale is incredibly competitive. In your essays you need to give very good reasons for wanting to transfer especially since you're already at a fantastic university and doing very well for yourself.</p>
<p>educ8,</p>
<p>Thanks for telling me that they have transfer rates below 10%, but some people clearly have a better chance than others. That's the point of "Chances" threads. The kid with a 2400 SAT has a better than 11% chance of getting into Columbia. And the kid who graduated last in his class has a less than 11% chance of getting into Columbia. I think this is pretty obvious.</p>
<p>The kid who graduated last in his class is probably not attending college, much less applying to Columbia. While every applicant is not equal, the majority are competitive due to the effort required to apply to one of these schools, and the fact that it is not hard to find the transfer rates for these schools which likely discourages many weaker candidates from ever applying.</p>
<p>AJ1018 you're wrong to assume your chances go up just because you're more qualified because of stats.
Transferring to some of these schools is harder to get into than freshman admissions. I can imagine that a good deal of the rejects for freshman admissions are just as qualified(by stats) as are the ones who are accepted, its the extra edge that gets them in. Sometimes that edge goes far beyond stats, that's why you see people with lower stats get in.</p>
<p>PS, it just seems like you're trying to trade up, and not to say there's anything wrong with that, but your perceived "intellectualism" of these schools may not be completely there with some of these schools. There's a major difference between a Columbia vs a Brown, in terms of curriculum, student body etc. </p>
<p>If you plan on staying with government/political science, and you find yourself disapointed with one of the schools that is ideal for your major(georgetown) maybe you should reconsider your Pre-professional major as it doesn't fulfill your intellectual pursuits.</p>
<p>There are schools like Claremont McKenna which might fit your needs better than perceived Ivys. I would go as far to say that you're chances there are guaranteed. They accept more than 10 percent, and are notoriously good for government/poly sci/international relations/econ </p>
<p>Or look at other liberal art colleges like Swarthmore, Pomona, and Reed</p>
<p>Well, unless you can get into Yale, I dont see the point of transferring. I mean, Georgetown is an EXCELLENT school for your major. Plus, you've worked really hard to get the 3.8 GPA. If you transfer, you'll have to start from zero again...and it can be really hard to get a 3.8 as all the classes that you'll take are gonna be advance level classes. Furthermore, I really think that Georgetown and those 2nd tier ivies are peer institutions. But when it comes to your major, Georgetown beats those schools hands down.</p>
<p>P.S Harvard and Princeton do not accept any transfers.</p>
<p>There are so many other people that would take advantage of being a student as Georgetown. Its a great school and there is no point in transferring. However, you leaving would give someone who actually wants to be at Georgetown a chance to get a great education. I would re evaluate your priorities.</p>
<p>"The kid with a 2400 SAT has a better than 11% chance of getting into Columbia."</p>
<p>I invite you to go ahead and think that, to your peril.</p>
<p>When you mean more "intellectualism," are you referring to a less pre-professional environment? I'd have to agree with most of the previous posters: there's no real point in transferring from Georgetown for your major. However if you really want a change of scenery some of the schools you mentioned definitely provide that, but Columbia is not far from NYC, which isn't that big of a change compared to D.C.</p>
<p>educ8, strong dramatization.</p>