Transfers from UC berkeley

Transfer Students
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Hey! I am going to attend UC berkeley as a freshmen from august 2015. However i plan to transfer after my freshmen year (please say dont, as i have very strong reasons for transferring). Colulmbia, brown, yale, stanford and wharton are my top choices. My HS grades are stellar. I got rejected by these schools due to some serious mistakes i did in my commonapp. So i wanted to ask that is possible to transfer from UC berkeley to these schools. Please tell if you know anyone who has transferred from Cal to these schools.

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“My HS grades are stellar. I got rejected by these schools due to some serious mistakes i did in my commonapp.”

Those places have admissions rates in the single digits. Even if there were nothing wrong with your common app, and you still might not have been admitted to any of them.

If you are determined to re-apply, you would be better off to take a gap year. Those institutions have even lower admissions rates for transfers than they do for freshmen.

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You have better chances transfer into Penn, Columbia, Brown, Cornell. Stanford and others similar, very slim chances. I suggest for Wharton, get into Penn first, then apply to transfer later.

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Would transferring again and again affect my academics? Like transfer from berkeley to penn and then to wharton?

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The thing is, transfer admissions for most of those schools is much more selective than freshmen admissions. If you really want to go to one of them, and the reason you were rejected really was due to some simple mistakes in your app, you’re better off sitting out a year. If you go to Cal, don’t expect to transfer to one of those schools. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it isn’t a good strategy. Only go to Cal if you would be happy staying there all 4 years.

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@transfer1950 please stop starting new threads and reposting the same question. You just started a new one. This has been absolutely the worst year for recreating the same threads or asking the same questions over and over and over. The result will be pretty soon that ppl will stop answering. Sorry to take it out on you, but sheesh!