<p>Hey guys,
I am a freshman at Brown now, but the program offered here is not what I now want to do. So I am thinking about transferring to other school with my program offered. So, probably Columbia and UPenn. Is it harder/easier to get into another Ivy school from Brown? Also, I was waitlisted at Columbia and got accepted to Penn last year, but decided to enroll at Brown. Does the fact that I used to get accepted or waitlisted increase/lower my chance to get in again?</p>
<p>Yes, a great GPA from an Ivy > great GPA from a state school, but I know Ivies aren’t very keen on taking applicants from other Ivies. Still, a lot more has to do with your reason to transfer.</p>
<p>Ivies are not that crazy about other Ivy applicants, and it’s because if someone isn’t feeling right at one ivy, then chances are - because the schools are, in a broad sense, pretty similar - they won’t feel right at another ivy. This case seems to be a bit different, because the OP is looking for a different program, but I would imagine that the fact that they go to an ivy already will still factor in.</p>
<p>That is so patently false it’s not even funny. Columbia and Penn are vastly different from Brown. So if the OP wants to transfer, he should find some good reasons other than the fact that Brown doesn’t have the program he wants. I know Dartmouth is quite elitist when it comes to transfer admissions - a lot of the kids come from other prestigious schools (like Columbia, Duke, or state flagships), and I would imagine that Columbia and Penn would be the same (the outlier in transfer admissions seems to be Stanford, which tends to favor community college applicants).</p>
<p>haha dont get me wrong it is MY personal preference. im not gonna sit here and argue that it should be everyone’s but i have been to both schools and columbia definitely was my favorite. if it wasnt for that damn core i would try and transfer there! (oh and also that 5% acceptance rate lol)</p>
<p>You simply cannot make generalizations about how “ivies” feel about applicants from “other ivies.” Each applicant is looked at individually, wrt all elements of the application (GPA, where earned, prof recs, reason for transfer, essays, other activities…)</p>
<p>You can find ample cases of individuals transferring between ivies (or schools of equal caliber) as well as cases of individuals who attempt to transfer “horizontally” and are unsuccessful.</p>
<p>Please don’t generalize, especially if you are purely speculating. If you have specific examples, with information which might help others in parallel situations, post it.</p>
<p>As a data point. I applied Columbia with an OKAY gpa and was accepted at Brown, Dartmouth and Duke and waitlisted at Harvard. My experience was that a decent percentage of my transfer class at Dartmouth came from other Ivies or top schools (I’d say at least a third of the class or more.) </p>
<p>As for transferring from Brown,what program are you looking for that Brown doesn’t have?</p>