Transfer To Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Wharton, Columbia

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm gonna be a sophomore at Berkeley trying to transfer for incoming junior year.</p>

<p>Major: Intended Business Administration and Legal Studies</p>

<p>Regents and Chancellor's Scholar (Highest Honor Awarded to Incoming Undergraduates) as well as Alumni Leadership Scholar at UC Berkeley.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 (or possibly 3.9 something if i really **** up)</p>

<p>ECs: some business clubs, etc etc. some internships at companies, non profits, etc etc.</p>

<p>Have a faculty advisor who is a professor write a good rec for me.</p>

<p>SAT: 2240</p>

<p>Chances?</p>

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<p>Your stats sound good for a transfer. Especially coming from Berkeley! Do you not like it there?</p>

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<p>You should be aware that S,Y,C accept only 5% of transfers applicants, which is even more selective than for freshman applicants</p>

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<p>Yale accepts around 3.85%
Stanford accepts around 5.12%
Columbia accepts around 6.38%
Harvard accepts around 8.14%</p>

<p>I'm not sure about Wharton.</p>

<p>But, also remember that there are smaller applicant pools with less qualified students.</p>

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<p>err, do you mean larger applicant pools JTloverYors?</p>

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<p>Major: Intended Business Administration and Legal Studies</p>

<p>None of the schools you listed have such an undergraduate major just so you know...</p>

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<p>^I think he means that is going to be his major at UCB
If so however, Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Columbia will not seriously consider you since the credits from most of your business courses will not transfer.</p>

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<p>Well I havent taken any business courses because we need to get into HAAS after our sophomore year to take those. And yeah, those are my majors at Berkeley, not for those other schools.</p>

<p>Thanks for the input!</p>

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<p>Definitely good chances, as far as these schools go. I'd be surprised if you didn't get into any of them. Harvard and Yale are for obvious reasons, hard to predict.</p>

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<p>Looking at last year's transfer results, the GPAs were all across the board. For Columbia specifically I recall a student with a 3.95 and 1580 who got rejected, and a 3.5, 1460 who got in. So what you really need to do is something that's going to be very hard to do given you are coming from a top school already: explain why those schools offer you something you CAN'T get at Berkeley.</p>

<p>It might even hurt you that you have a 4.0 because you look like the kind of
stereotypical freshman 4.0 who says "Hey, I got a 4.0 freshman year! Now that means I can go to Harvard, right?" that are all over College Confidential. So once again, the most important thing in transfer decisions once you have solid grades and SAT scores is a compelling REASON to transfer. If you only want to go to one of those places because they are more prestigious (even though you are already at a top school...?), then do the rest of us who want to go there for legitimate reasons a favor and don't apply.</p>

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<p>^He doesn't have any obligation to do us any favors. And legitimate reasons are hard to define- I mean aren't you applying to top schools for reasons including prestige...</p>

<p>But you're right, the poster should make sure he verbalizes well-defined reasons and interests for each of those schools.</p>

<p>You have good chances if you do that and get another semester's worth of good grades in transferable liberal arts courses.</p>

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<p>"But, also remember that there are smaller applicant pools with less qualified students."</p>

<p>okkkayyy...?</p>

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<p>I mean that it's not as large of a pool compared to Freshman applications. And admissions officers are saying that a lot of the people who are applying are not even qualified to attend those schools, but think they have a better chance during transfer process. It's really not that difficult to understand.</p>

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<p>That is exactly right. In nearly all cases freshman admissions are more difficult than transfer, though there are some major exceptions, often at top LACs.</p>

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<p>"they have a better chance during transfer process." Huh??? Not for the colleges the OP is hoping to be accepted at.
A one-in-twenty chance is less than a one-in-ten-chance, last time I looked.</p>