<p>Top private schools prefer a transfer applicants who is from 4 year university to a 2 year college student. I am attending a community college so I am wondering whether to stay at my current college until I can apply to the top schools or transfer to any 4 year college and then try to transfer again.</p>
<p>I would highly discourage attempting to transfer twice. It’s possible, and has been done by some due to exceptional circumstances. However, if you’re just trying to slowly maneuver your way to a better school, admissions staff will see through when you try to transfer the second time and it won’t give them a good impression of you.</p>
<p>If you get exceptional grades at CC (3.8 and above) and write a good essay and get good recs, you may still be a competitive transfer candidate for a high ranking 4-year institution.</p>
<p>“Top private schools prefer a transfer applicants who is from 4 year university to a 2 year college student.”</p>
<p>Where did you hear that? It seems to me that more four year transfer students get accepted because of indirect reasons rather than because of whatever school they attended.</p>
<p>Possible reasons include:
-there is a strong correlation between successful students and admitted students. The first four year school already weeded students out in their own admissions process, so it’s the qualities the student has that gets them accepted to the private four year, not the fact that they transferred from another university
-students from universities are often able to jump right into 300 and 400 level courses while community college students are only offered 200 level courses. Rigor of academics is a huge factor in pretty much all college transfer admissions
are just a few things that come to mind.</p>
<p>Something else you might want to think about- transfer and freshmen admissions are much different. For transfer students, their post-high school life is more important because it indicates success. Unless you have valid and well founded reasons for transferring twice, a school might see that as a personal quality of being indecisive and unable to commit. It takes time to get plugged into a school and their clubs and communities and schools look at your application as an indicator for after college success as well as what you will bring to their student body and academic community. If a school recognizes that a student just bounces around from school to school that is not a favorable quality.</p>
<p>I would ask the same question as h1dden. I question your premise that top schools prefer transfers from 4-year institutions vs. from community college.</p>
<p>“Top private schools prefer a transfer applicants who is from 4 year university to a 2 year college student.”</p>
<p>Not true. The valedictorian at my CC graduated last semester and went to Harvard.</p>
<p>Bump this thread as it may apply to me. Good topic</p>
<p>I heard that top private schools prefer 4 year college gpa 3.6 to cc gpa 4.0 since it is much harder to remain a high gpa at 4 year college than community college. My friend who transferred from state university to Carnegie mellon said less than 10% of the transfer students transferred from community college.</p>
<p>Do you know why only 10% of transfers are from community college? It may be because many community college students do not have the funds to afford Carnegie Mellon vs transfers from 4year colleges. To know if there is a bias against CC students, you’d need more detailed stats.</p>
<p>The reality is that a strong CC student is going to be a competitive and welcomed transfer student at most 4 year colleges.</p>
<p>bump this thread</p>
<p>See right through you?</p>
<p>" However, if you’re just trying to slowly maneuver your way to a better school, admissions staff will see through when you try to transfer the second time and it won’t give them a good impression of you. "</p>
<p>They will only see right through you if their mindset is to somehow “catch” people. I transferred from a community college to a 4 year institution. I have also sent out my transfer applications which would make this my second transfer. I left the community college because the classes were not challenging enough and I felt as if though the community college was pushing students to stay longer than 2 years. My professors all recommended that I transfer to another college. Instead of wasting 2 years at a community college and then transferring in to a 4 year with a major that shares no core classes with that which was already taken, I found it better to transfer out as soon as possible. I’m pretty content with where I am now, but I would still like to transfer out to a more rigorous institution.</p>
<p>Most transfer essay prompts ask you for your reasons for transferring. Just state your real reasons for transferring and they won’t have to see through anything. It should be obvious.</p>
<p>Am I necro posting :P?</p>
<p>Though I hear if you attempt to and get a 3rd transfer… this will really affect you if you wish to go to grad school. Unless that is… you have a really good reason? Discrimination or budget constraints etc etc etcccccc</p>
<p>There is no need to transfer twice. You can get into a top 25 if you keep your GPA high.</p>