<p>does anyone know if it is easier to transfer within the ivy league? </p>
<p>I am a freshmen with 4.0 GPA from a lower ivy looking at Yale/Harvard.</p>
<p>It’s not easier just because they’re in the same sports conference.</p>
<p>What may make it more possible is that they’re all (to varying degrees) highly selective and academically challenging colleges, you are coming from a strong college to start with.</p>
<p>“it’s not easier just because they’re in the same sports conference.” </p>
<p>…I’m the one in the League.</p>
<p>Wow. Your tone of arrogance is astounding. </p>
<p>entomom is right. The Ivy League is just a sports conference founded hundreds of years ago. It doesn’t mean anything academically, and won’t give you an edge with transferring. </p>
<p>Most Ivy’s don’t take many transfers anyways, with the possible exception of Cornell. But that’s probably where you’re at.</p>
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<p>True, however I did have both kids admitted to Y as fr; one was also admitted to H as a fr (the other didn’t apply); and the one that transferred was accepted again by Y (H did not take transfers that year) and graduated from there last year.</p>
<p>Funny that you should get so upset about that, particularly since in my second sentence I said that it was a positive for transferring that you’re currently doing well at an academically strong college. One would think that that was the more important take home message as opposed to the fact that I didn’t say, “Ooh, ooh you go to an Ivy League school, aren’t you special”. </p>
<p>It’s a sports conference, get over it.</p>
<p>The key to a successful transfer is to convince the adcom that you can’t do what you want to do where you are, and that the target college has what you need and, even better, is the only one that has what you need. The adcom anywhere will look at you and look at Dartmouth and say, Dartmouth offers anything this kid needs, so why us? You better have a very very good rationale, one backed up by a professor at the target college – even better. Just saying you hate the fratboy culture of Dartmouth (not that I’m putting words in your mouth) doesn’t cut it. There has to be a specific academic reason WHY. It is easier to transfer to an Ivy from a non-Ivy, as the non-Ivy brings new blood – the Ivy transfer is just same-ol’ same ol’</p>
<p>Wow. Ivy leaguers get so wound up over such little things.</p>