<p>Hi,
I am a sophomore and in a state college currently. I am a math major and have been taking Junior and senior math courses since my second semester in college. I am an honor student, and have a 3.9 GPA. I am in the Golden Key Club, math club, and hiking club in my school. I have been working as a math TA for Cal II for a semester so far and will be most likely to keep doing this next semester. I am getting well along with my professors, and so I believe that they would like to give me recommendation letters. I am looking up these universities now and planning to apply some of them as a transfer: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Chicago, UPenn, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Cornell, NYU, Boston College, Stanford, Berkley, Duke, Brown, Rice, Michigan, Vanderbilt, and etc. So I am wondering what my chances would be like among these schools. Please help and give me some suggestions. I will appreciate your answers very much! Thank you!</p>
<p>How are your ECs?</p>
<p>Many of the colleges you listed are not known for being friendly to transfer students. This includes many of the top colleges you posted such as Harvard, which sometimes accepts no transfer students. The only exception is the superstar. That being said…</p>
<p>Harvard, high reach to impossible
Yale, high reach to impossible
Columbia, high reach
MIT, high reach
Chicago, reach
UPenn, high reach
Dartmouth, high reach
Northwestern, low reach
Cornell, high reach
NYU, match (not sure about their transfer policy, this rating is if they have favorable policies)
Boston College, see above
Stanford, high reach
Berkeley, match (this school is known for favorable transfer policies)
Duke, reach
Brown, high reach
Rice, reach
Michigan, match
Vanderbilt, reach</p>
<p>Your best chances are at the big state schools. Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, U of M, etc which have long-established transfer policies.</p>
<p>Thanks for getting back with me and your helpful explanations. I prefer to private colleges, since my current college is a decent state school in terms of reputation. So any suggestions on some top private colleges that I might have big chances to get in, specifically how about Rice, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Emory, Georgetown and Amherst? </p>
<p>As for “ECs”, did you refer to extracurriculars? if so, I already said in my first post, I am a TA for Cal II now and doing couple of club things, like hiking club, math club and golden key. btw I am in the honor college of my school also. </p>
<p>Again, thank you very much!</p>
<p>I amend some of what I said. The top ivies do have the draconian guidelines against transfers, but the lower ivies appear to have a transfer rate similar to the freshmen acceptance rate, particularly at Cornell.</p>
<p>Changes</p>
<p>Harvard, high reach to impossible
Yale, high reach to impossible
Columbia, reach
MIT, reach
Chicago, reach
UPenn, reach
Dartmouth, reach
Northwestern, low reach
Cornell, match
NYU, match (not sure about their transfer policy, this rating is if they have favorable policies)
Boston College, see above
Stanford, high reach
Berkeley, match (this school is known for favorable transfer policies)
Duke, reach
Brown, reach
Rice, reach
Michigan, match
Vanderbilt, high match</p>