Try again as a transfer applicant?

let’s say I applied to Harvard and MIT and I got rejected as a freshmen applicant. So can I try again and apply to Harvard and MIT as a Transfer applicant from another college?

Sure you can, there aren’t any rules against it. What I’m sure most users here will say to you is, “If you didn’t get in as a freshman you won’t get in as a transfer”, or something along those lines.

The only thing I’d add to that is it’d be hard to get in “immediately” as a transfer. Try to apply to those schools as a rising junior, with the hardest, heaviest and most relevant coursework you can achieve. Straight A’s, or close to it. Retake your SATs/ACTs if you can, try to hit their averages. Rec letters, etc etc, the whole serving.

Sure you can apply. But something about your application would have to get stronger to have any chance. The top schools take very few transfers.

In contrast to the advice given above, I don’t think re-taking the standardized tests once you are in college would impress top schools – those are exams meant for HS students.

I have a friend who successfully applied for a transfer to Stanford from UMich Ann Arbor. I would imagine that you need to make your application stronger, much like what the poster above said. Make sure that your GPA is highly competitive and that you were involved in the school’s organizations (I could be wrong on the second part). Consult your advisor and see what you need to do to make sure that you’re qualified to transfer.

Hope this helps and best of luck!

You also should be able to answer the question “Why Harvard/MIT” in a pretty convincing manner.

What exactly is motivating you?

I have heard that transfer applications are most successful when you are not simply chasing prestige, but there is something at the school you are applying to that fulfills your academic needs in a way your current school cannot. For example, Harvard has a particular major that your current school does not offer, rather than just wanting to go to Harvard because it is an Ivy.

It seems to me that you should be putting your energy into committing to one of the schools you DID get accepted to.

Obviously, if Harvard is even on your radar, you’re bright. So you must have gotten accepted by any number of highly respected schools. Why not attend one of them, with the intention of giving it your all?

OP’s stats are as follows: Weighted GPA: 3.7,SAT: 1350/1600.

@TuyTuyTuy, I don’t think you will be admitted to Harvard or MIT as a transfer student. You had many other threads looking for “last minute” college admissions. What school are you attending?

@suzy100 yeh, I know that with them SATs and GPAs, I ain’t go no chance; i definetely retaking them tests n stuffs. Im attending USF(South Flo)

They keep your file and know they rejected you once. They rarely go ‘oops we should have taken him/her’.
Reapplying to colleges that rejected you would require 1)being at a college that doesn’t offer what you want to study, whereas the college you want to transfer to, does AND 2) being stellar during the three semesters you have to build your application (including taking several seminars and more than one class with the same professor.)
Your odds are infinitesimal.
Where have you been admitted? Where did you commit?

Sure, there’s no rule against it. But the transfer acceptance rates are even smaller, so unless your application is going to look really different your chances are low. MIT had a freshman acceptance rate of 7.9% last year and a transfer acceptance rate of only 4.1%.

I hate to sound rude, but you need to realize that you don’t have the stats to get into Harvard and MIT. Why do you bother obsessing over those schools and what makes you think you would be accepted there? If you got accepted to USF and can afford it, you should focus on your studies and USF at this point.