<p>I am curious about something I heard a while back. Someone said that as long as you are in the top 40 or 50 percent of your West Point class, that you are able to transfer into Harvard with ease. i.e. you are pretty much accepted. I assume it is pretty much the same for other service academies as well. </p>
<p>Is this true or not? It speaks to the level that these schools are on if it is. I assume it doesn't happen that often, but I would also surmise that a it is like a "lateral" transfer like from Princeton to Harvard...</p>
<p>I have never met a transfer from a service academy to Harvard. I've only ever known one transfer from Princeton to Harvard (a star athlete). The only school whose transfer applicants to Harvard are "pretty much accepted" is Deep Springs.</p>
<p>Hanna is right...I'm a transfer this year; of the 25-35 people out of 50 fall transfers that I know, none come from service academies and at least 3-4 are from Deep Springs.</p>
<p>Others come from a variety of peer institutions including Yale, Stanford, U Chicago, Columbia and top LACs. </p>
<p>Very few come from State Universities (esp. non-UC, Michigan types) and I haven't yet met a single person from a CC. Of course I haven't yet met the entire group yet. :)</p>
<p>basically, its a junior, 2 year, all male college in the Sierra Nevadas. But it's not your typical 2 year college; it's definiately not a CC. It's location is apparently a pretty isolated desert/valley. (or some combination like that)</p>
<p>About 200 people apply per year and they take like 10-15 so theres a total of about 30 students at the school. It's a "work" college and students work on an alfalfa farm. They take care of the cattle, farm, raise crops, milk the cows and so on. It's tuition-free and they live off whatever their endowment is (from alumni) and from the money they make from the crops and milk and what not. Then, theres the classes- most of which are 4-6 people, small seminar style. From what I've heard, they tend to prefer the humanities and social sciences to math and science courses- but don't quote me on that. It's a pretty esoteric type. </p>
<p>It's an institution and presigious institution and every year, about a fourth of their graduating class transfer to Harvard, another quarter to U Chicago and the remaining end up at places like Stanford, Yale, Columbia etc. </p>
<p>The place obviously is not for everyone. </p>
<p>There was a great article about the school in last week's NEW YORKER but it's not online unfortunately.</p>