Transferring to Stanford and Ivies with a 2.0?

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<p>Yes, I did. I believe you meant to say the former as opposed to the latter, so I’ll just respond according to my assumption. As I said, the top schools, such as Yale, MIT and Stanford, accept a very small amount of transfers, thus meaning that one would have to posts great stats in all fields in order for a successful matriculation to be feasible. However, there are other top schools, such as Columbia, whose transfer rates are actually higher than their freshman admission rates (this may be a slightly specious argument since I believe the transfer admissions rate also incorporates Columbia GS, but I’m not sure). There’s more that could be listed, but you can just look it up if you’re that interested.</p>

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<p>I’ve never seen Brown ranked in the top-5, but yes, it is possible to get in there with high school grades which were just ok. I’ve heard that they’re not too transfer friendly, but if you’re an amazing transfer applicant, it could happen. I’m sure you’d be able to find a few examples of poor high school students who transferred into Brown if you scoured the this forum. </p>

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<p>If that guy can get into Yale after being at a community college with poor high school grades, then anything is possible. Honestly, his case is probably very rare and is the exception rather than the rule, but hey, it is possible.</p>

<p>edit: Here’s a guy who got into Brown with a 3.4 high school gpa. I probably wouldn’t say a 3.4 is bad, but it’s not really great either.</p>

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<p>Here’s another with a 2.6 HS GPA who went on to Cornell:</p>

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<p>3.5 to Northwestern:</p>

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<p>2.6 to University of Pennsylvania (which is a top-5 university as well):</p>

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<p>To answer your question, my guess is that the retention rate at Princeton is so high that there’s simply not enough space for people to transfer into the school. That’s just an assumption, though.</p>