Very random, but I’m interested, but does being Filipino-American give me even the littlest edge in admissions as opposed to be Chinese-, Korean-, Indian-American, in terms of being Asian?
I do not think so. There are many enrolled Filipino students at top schools. I do agree, however, that they are not as overrepresented as Chinese, Koreans and Indians are, but still, it probably will not be too advantageous.
@Neurological, oh too bad!
Also I think I’ve crossed out UChicago mainly for transfer credit reasons given if they would accept any of my credits it would barely fulfill the requirements of their 15-course core curriculum.
imo telling any of those schools that you need to transfer b/c your “top 10 LAC” isn’t academically rigorous enough for you is likely to make you look bad, not your school.
What reasoning do people use transferring between top schools then? I’ve heard of students transferring from Chicago to Brown because of desire to balance social and academic life more. But there must be more, right? I’ve heard of many students transferring because of rigor, and just because my LAC is top 10 does not a rigorous college make.
At some highly selective schools (e.g. Stanford), the transfer students appear to include a substantial number of non-traditional students (not necessarily from highly selective prior colleges – many Stanford transfer students come from community colleges).
@ucbalumnus, interesting point. Ultra-selective (< 1% accepted) schools tend to be this way, with around 0-15 students accepted per here, usually with extraordinary circumstances, based on my research. But at other schools whose transfer acceptance rates are commensurate or slightly lower than their freshman acceptance rates, this isn’t always the case.
I’ve done more research and conferred with some of my peers who have transferred and they all did lateral transfers between very selective institutions, so it’s certainly not unheard of. Furthermore, change of academic program or lack of certain course offerings/focus at your past college’s department of your major is also a valid reason for transferring. Location is, as well. You could make the argument you initially wanted to go to a large, urban university as you were raised an urbanite and wanted to continue such a trend, but decide that transferring to a more suburban or rural school would be more of a (positive) challenge, less safe and more spontaneous.
Also this is helpful in providing some basic updated statistics from @grizzlybear1:
Princeton: N/A
Harvard: 13/1432 = 0.91%
Yale: 28/1250 = 2.2%
Columbia: ~6%
Stanford: 20/2023 = 0.98%
UChicago: 88/674 = 13.1% (likely inaccurate, from CollegeNiche)
MIT: 22/490 = 4.5%
Duke: 3-7%
UPenn: 210/2491 = 8.43%
Caltech: 4/151 = 2.6%
Johns Hopkins: 153/1173 = 13.0%
Dartmouth: 29/751 = 3.9%
Northwestern: 213/1791 = 11.9%
Brown: 152/1834 = 8.29%
Cornell: 766/4117 = 18.6%
Vanderbilt: 419/1308 = 32%
WashU: 235/1031 = 22.8%
Rice: 81/559 = 14.5%
Notre Dame: 164/640 = 25.6%
UC Berkeley: 3271/17251 = 18.96%
Georgetown: 285/2056 = 13.9%
Carnegie Mellon: 84/831 = 10.1%
Any other suggestions?