<p>I know it's REALLY REALLY hard to transfer into Yale, but what are my rough chances if I keep a good GPA throughout fresh year at Columbia? </p>
<p>For what it's worth, my high school record had several activities [including a non-profit I started which will be like 'legal' this November]..I am currently a Semi-Finalist for the US Presidential Scholars Program andd have a 2350 SAT. </p>
<p>Or the same from the Engineering Honors Program at UT Austin? </p>
<p>Do I have a legit shot?</p>
<p>As far as I know, Engineering at Columbia SEAS may be better than a Yale engineering degree… So why bother? 
Columbia is simply a great school, and I’m sure you’ll love it there :P</p>
<p>However, on the original question. At Yale, the transfer admission rates are even a fraction of the freshmen admission rates, so you have a very minimal chance unless you pull off a ridiculously high GPA at Columbia. :)</p>
<p>On that matter, Yale’s upperclassmen housing has been REALLY crowded recently(I don’t have the link to that article right now, but you can search the Yale Daily News for it.) And I even doubt if they’ll transfer any for the next year or two…</p>
<p>If you’re thinking about transferring out of a school before you even get there… you have bigger problems than not getting into yale. Why not give Columbia a chance? </p>
<p>Transfer rate is very low… you have to have a very good reason to go to Yale in particular and an otherwise excellent application</p>
<p>No I know Columbia is a great school, andd I didn’t mean to sound like a complete loser haha. </p>
<p>It’s just that I think the whole atmosphere of living at Yale would nicee, like kinda secluded from everything else? As compared to being in New York City?</p>
<p>Would it improve one’s chances if they don’t request to live on campus when applying to Yale?</p>
<p>Anyonee? :)</p>
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<p>While housing is tight, you do realize that nobody, including the above poster, knows how many transfers Y will accept, right? And in fact there has been no indication by Y that they have any plans to shut down the transfer process.</p>
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<p>I saw your posts in the Columbia WL thread. Get into Columbia first :)</p>
<p>[Q</a>. and A.: College Admissions - Questions/Answers Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://questions.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/qa-college-admissions/]Q”>Q. and A.: College Admissions - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Question:
How are transfer applicants from community colleges viewed in the admissions process? What advice would you offer these applicants?
Answer:
Mr. Brenzel of Yale: Our unusual system of residential colleges makes the freshman year and sophomore years critical to our undergraduate program. So we maintain only a very small transfer program, limited to 24 places each year.</p>
<p>^Nothing new here, that blog is from 2008 and the same general range has been stated on their website for at least 3 yrs:</p>
<p>[Transfer</a> Student Program | Transfer & Other Programs | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“Home | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions”>Transfer Application Process | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>To be exact, 18 transfers were accepted for fall 2009 and 24 for fall 2008.</p>