Transfering to Harvard

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>Hello.</p>

<p>I am looking to transfer from a community college to Harvard. Now, I have heard this is extremely difficult but I wanted to find out some things and wondered if you can help me. If this helps, I am a first generation latino (dominican and salvadorean) who speaks fluent spanish from the lower class.</p>

<li><p>Is there a community college that well best prepare me to transfer to Harvard? If so, which one?</p></li>
<li><p>Where collegs have other transfer students transfered from?</p></li>
<li><p>Do they look at your high school transcript? If so, what year(s) do they focus on?</p></li>
<li><p>Do they look at ACT, SAT, etc?</p></li>
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<p>Thank you.</p>

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<li><p>I would not know. Hanna is the authority on all things transfer-related.</p></li>
<li><p>Many different ones.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes. They focus on all years.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes. The SAT I is required. However, most successful applicants have 700+ SAT II scores as well.</p></li>
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<p>Transfer admissions to Harvard is actually more difficult than regular freshman admissions. About 70 out of 1000 are accepted (about 7%) while for freshman it's about 9 to 10%.</p>

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<p>Evelio, check out Harvard's website for yourself: </p>

<p><a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/transfer/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/transfer/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>About 75/1000+ applicants. Pretty intense.</p>

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<p>It is not that 75 out of 1100 is that intense, when compared to 24 out of 800 (Yale) or 60 out of 1280 (Stanford). It is that Harvard has never taken more than 2-3 community college transfers in a given year. </p>

<p>I am really curious why would you like to go to Harvard over at least 25 other schools, which would be more appropriate...</p>

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<p>Transfers for the Class of 2008:</p>

<p>Harvard: 955 applicants, 55 admits, 55 matriculants</p>

<p>Yale: 696 applicants, 26 admits, 21 matriculants</p>

<p>Stanford: 1,345 applicants, 100 admits, 78 matriculants.</p>

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<p>I believe the large number of transfer applicants to Stanford is due, in large part, to the many junior and 2-yr community colleges in California, whose graduates traditionally look to complete their education at a 4yr college or university - generally instate. Compare, for example, the transfer stats for Cali's two major 4-yr "flagship" universities:</p>

<p>Berkeley: 10,376 applicants, 2,584 admits, 1,737 matriculants</p>

<p>UCLA: 13,679 applicants, 4,954 admits, 3,066 matriculants.</p>

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<p>Why wouldn't you use the transfer c/o 2009 stats?</p>

<p>I know they're out. Stanford, for example, was much more competitive last year, with a 4.5% acceptance rate (or 4.8%, it changes based on the source.)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/#admission%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/#admission&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/applying/extras/1_2a6_profile.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/applying/extras/1_2a6_profile.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>