Hello. I’m a first year at one of the top 5 US news universities but Im hating my life here tbh.
I visited harvard and I think the environment definitely suits me. I have to work on the transfer app but I need to know about any contact who successfully transferred from a top tier uni to another top tier uni >?
Why do you hate it??
Well it doesn’t suit me. @cristina1225 I can describe that well in the why transfer essay
Were you rejected by Harvard?
You evidently made a poor decision about choosing your current school; what makes you think that you’re not doing the same thing over H? More than a few H undergrads have a love/hate relationship with the place, easy to look up the Crimson articles. Why not cast a wider net and find a better fit?
@ClarinetDad16 Yes.
@snarlatron Ive spent time at harvard 
I know what colleges I fit and not fit. I came to this college trying to push myself and see if I can do that but I can’t. Sure I made a bad choice but now I’m trying to correct it and I have a wider net and I’m looking for more colleges too.
Yale has this advice on their website, which I would imagine applies to Harvard transfers as well.
If you’re currently enrolled at a top 5 university, which basically has all the same academic programs Harvard offers, it’s going to be an uphill battle to answer the above question to Harvard’s satisfaction. That coupled with Harvard’s 1% transfer admit rate, and your rejection as a freshman applicant, makes a transfer application an extreme long shot. By all means apply, and while you’re at it, buy a mega-millions ticket.
@gibby as I mentioned in my last comment, I have spent time at harvard and leaving my current school is not the only reason Im trying to transfer.
Also, your last comment was a bit uncalled for. Applying to any of the top tier universities is buying a mega-millions ticket!!
^^ Sorry that may have been a bit snarky. Great, you spent time at Harvard and feel it would be a better fit than your current college – but, here’s the harsh reality I think you are overlooking: My best guess is that least half the successful transfer applicants to Harvard are recruited athletes, which leaves about 6 or 7 spaces for academic applicants like yourself. That’s probably a one-half-of-one-percent (0.5%) chance – which is significantly lower than the chances for freshman applicants in the SCEA, EA, ED, or RD round at any university. Those are the odds you have to beat.
Harvard Admissions keeps an electronic file of every rejected student for 3 years just in case they reapply. So, if you apply as a transfer applicant, Admissions will consult your freshman application, re-read your high school transcript, GPA, teachers recommendations, guidance counselors SSR, interview report, EC’s, essays and the notes Admissions Officers made from your previous application. Unless there has been a huge significant change in your maturity and growth during your time at college, I wouldn’t expect to see different results than you had as a freshman applicant.
@gibby thanks. this was helpful
From my experience with three kids and their dorm mates and friends, the holiday season of first semester at college is the height of homesickness and dissatisfaction with school. Is it possible that you will feel better about where you are in a few months? Have you talked with an advisor or counselor at school?
Regardless, hoping you find a place that you like, whether where you are now or some other school. Good luck!
The schools with the most students from the most recent transfer class were Oxford, MIT and Georgetown with 2 students apiece. There were 2 transfers who continued on to play varsity athletics at Harvard.