Transferring to Harvard & Yale with Horrible HS Grades?

Transfer Students
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<p>Hey all, I'm considering applying for Harvard and Yale this year as a junior transfer. I have a 4.0 for my college GPA, and I think I can probably maintain that in the fall with some effort. However, my senior grades were horrendous. I got a D+ and an F in two math classes, though the rest were A's/B+'s. Ironically, I'm a math major now. Should I even bother applying?</p>

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<p>its a bit late to be transfering now no? Anyways, given the competition, I doubt you’d get into to either</p>

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<p>Open the Harvard transfer thread and read the stats of the applicants you would be pooled with, that would give you the idea of the competition. Despite having everything perfect and then some, none of these applicants have any certainty about an acceptance from either Harvard, Yale or any Ivy for that matter.</p>

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<p>harvard and yale take so few transfers that i would not bother applying if you wouldn’t have been a competitive candidate for freshmen admissions. yale’s website actually says that, also. i do, however, see you being competitive for other good schools.</p>

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<p>Thanks all for your input! I was just wondering if applying was even worth the effort. The school I currently attend is a pretty good school–it just simply isn’t HY ;)</p>

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<p>Go to Michelle Hernandez and you’ll have an 80% chance of getting in :p</p>

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<p>^ LOL at that…hey you know how frikkin expensive their so called ‘strategy’ package is!</p>

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<p>yea, 34,000 dollars. </p>

<p>grammarian?</p>

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<p>No, Patrician!
Where you from?</p>

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<p>wait this I take that this isn’t Michelle Hernandez. I googled her and if she is she’s one hot college counselor.</p>

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<p>@Jmcyl
Wo Wo!!
Then $34000 is not a total waste! LOL!</p>

<p>But seriously thats not her…though I wish!
[Hernandez</a> College Consulting, Inc. and Ivy League Admission Help](<a href=“http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/]Hernandez”>http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/)</p>

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<p>rofl</p>

<p>but yeah theres like what… 15 spots per year for harvard transfers? Something ridiculous like that. Good luck…</p>

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<p>Remember that these schools look for intelligence. What I think a lot of people nowadays forget is that intelligence is not measured solely in ones grades. So what I would say is go for it :slight_smile: Grades are only one component of a person, and admission officers know that there is more to a person than a letter.</p>

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<p>@ SSK 91:
haha, i am from india but a lot of my friends at university are from kgs in karachi. when i saw the karachi location i thought you might be grammarian too lol. nm. where all did you apply?</p>