Transfer to Ivy School

<p>I'm currently a junior at top 50 university (according to us news ranking).</p>

<p>I'm working towards my biology BA right now but I want to transfer to one of Ivy schools....probably for biology BA also...</p>

<p>My stats:
I have about 120 units done.</p>

<p>GPA:3.83
Science GPA: 3.95
Various research, tutoring, volunteering, work experience</p>

<p>My question is...what does it take to successfully transfer into Ivy schools?
Do they ask for SAT score? My score wasn't that high.
What are some avg stats of successful Ivy transfers?</p>

<p>well if community college kids can do it. im sure you can.</p>

<p>I can’t tell you the average stats of Ivy transfers but what I can tell you is the fact that you’re a junior will decrease the significance of your test scores so I wouldn’t worry about them too much. They’re still required but won’t be weighed as heavily compared to your gpa and other college work.</p>

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<p>Y doesn’t take transfers with more than 2 yrs of college and B discourages students with more than 2 yrs of college from applying. Since H & P don’t take transfers at all, that leaves 4 more that you ought to check the websites for transfer eligibility.</p>

<p>^ Yes, and four drastically different schools at that.</p>

<p>Scores are still important at all but Cornell.</p>

<p>“Scores are still important at all but Cornell.”</p>

<p>??? Are you privy to the admissions committee criteria weighting policies for transfers, for each individual undergraduate college at Cornell? Or is this statement posted someplace by them?</p>

<p>I wonder why D2 had to submit her scores there then.</p>

<p>I believe admissions practices and emphases there vary substantially by college, for transfers as well as others. For example, some of the contract colleges offer many “guaranteed transfers”, subject to certain stated provisions, to qualified initlal applicants who they do not immediately have room for; however the other colleges there do not.</p>

<p>When I looked, Cornell CAS accepted a (slighly) smaller % of transfer applicants than the % for freshman admission. SAT stats for transfers are not published though, by any school so far as I’ve seen. With no data, I, for one, have no basis to assess the extent to which the scores are comparable, or weighted in admissions decisions.</p>

<p>BTW just saw the numbers, Cornell CAS admitted a little over 9% of transfer applicants for Fall 2009.</p>

<p>It’s my understanding that Cornell does not require transfers to submit scores, they can by choice. From the Cornell web page for transfers:</p>

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<p>You are a junior. You have research experience and a more than decent GPA. Why on earth are you trying to transfer right now?</p>

<p>Finish off that degree where you are, and go to a top grad school. In biology, you shouldn’t have to pay a cent for your advanced degree.</p>

<p>Ditto what happymom said. You’re practically done, you would do yourself a disservice by trying to transfer now. </p>

<p>Don’t the majority of universities, if not all, have in-residence unit requirements for degree completion? I think the average is 60, but I’m sure it varies (and have no familiary with the ivies on this). You would have to take a lot of additional courses to meet those in-residence hours, which would be a waste of your time and money.</p>

<p>“In addition to completing the Transfer Common Application and the Cornell Transfer Supplement, you need to know about and fulfill some special admission requirements for the particular undergraduate college you’re applying to at Cornell.”</p>

<p>Here are the referenced “special admission requirements”. As I expected the requirements vary by the college at Cornell that one is applying to. This grid indicates that Architecture, CAS and Engineering require the exams, provided only that you took them before. Whereas at the other colleges the exams are, variously,optional or not required.
<a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/transfer/TransferSpecialRequirementsGrid.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/transfer/TransferSpecialRequirementsGrid.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And yes I agree that the wording of the general section you quoted does not match the actual detailed requirements of the individual colleges regarding SAT submittals as detailed on this grid.</p>

<p>None of the colleges detail the extent to which submitted scores, whether optional or mandatory, are considered “important” or given any weight in connection with their individual admissions decisions.</p>

<p>Interesting to know as it’s often written here there is no requirement for tests at Cornell. Noted. Thanks.</p>

<p>So I guess the new line is they matter at all ivies except Cornell’s land grant schools? This fits in with most state schools not requiring them.</p>

<p>"So I guess the new line is they matter at all ivies except Cornell’s land grant schools? "</p>

<p>I never read any prior “line”, I know D2 applied as transfer to CAS and knew to submit scores.</p>

<p>The contract colleges accept a lot more transfers than the endowed colleges, so there may be more chatter that is particular to those colleges, perhaps that would account for such a “line” being bandied about.</p>

<p>From the grid, Hum Ec (land grant) and Hotel (not land grant) say “can be submitted but not required”, ILR and CALS (land grant) say “not required”. I’m not sure whether they all mean effectively the same thing, or not.</p>

<p>It’s one thing to say that submission is optional, it doesn’t necessarily follow, to me, that once submitted, and they look at it, that it won’t “matter” in the admissions evaluation. If their position was that it can’t possibly play any role in their decision, the scores can’t “matter”, then they wouldn’t make submission optional, they’d just wouldn’t take them at all. Seems to me.</p>

<p>And I don’t know the stance of all other colleges at other ivies. Does Penn’s Nursing college require these tests of transfers? Does Columbia’s College of General Studies require these tests of transfers? That would be surprising, since they don’t require them from freshman applicants. If you ask me, that is the Ivy league college where transfer SATs are most likely to truly not matter, submission is not optional there they don’t take them at all, so far as I recall.</p>

<p>I didn’t know there were a lot of parent users on this website. Most schools have a unit cap for transferring. If you’ve completed 120 units and are about to complete more, I don’t think you’ll be in good standing for transferring as a senior.</p>

<p>^^As suggested in post #4, by a parent.</p>

<p>As suggested, I think it’s best for me to finish my degree at my current university…</p>

<p>Doesn’t make much sense and plus I’ve come too far to forgo my degree here…</p>

<p>It would be much better to apply as a grad student if I do decide to pursue that route…</p>

<p>Thanks for the advice guys~</p>