Any story of the student would be cool to.
Cornell has a transfer program with community colleges in NY. Don’t know much about it.
There are a number of extremely selective colleges that actively encourage transfer students from community college. Brown is one of them. Not sure of others. Yes, it happens. They key is to not only be a great student, but to demonstrate that you are involved in stuff beyond studies.
I live in California, so the majority of community college students I know went onto UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, and Cal Poly.
My friend’s older sister got accepted into Cornell as a transfer a few years ago, but she didn’t enroll.
For its first group of transfer students in many years, Princeton is actively recruiting CC applicants.
Lots of public universities accept lots of community college transfer students. So if your goal is a public university, transferring from a community college is not unusual.
Among private universities:
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/11/01/small-mighty-cohort-transfer-students-joins-stanford-community/
I know several that started out at ACC and transferred in to UT Austin.
You won’t have to look too far to find some very inspiring examples of CC students who got accepted to selective universities around the country. Just in my own college, I’ve met students who got into UPenn, Brown, Amherst, Columbia, among others.
Every now and then you’ll see the same here on some transfer threads. Last year I read about CC students getting into Yale, Stanford, etc.
Definitely want to echo what @Lindagaf mentions. You’ll see that at many CC’s, there are truly talented students academically. But to stand out, you’ll need to be involved in your community (PTK membership is always a plus!) and make the most of the challenging classes your college has to offer.
I’ve heard of a couple students getting into Ivy Leagues. There’s this TED talk on a guy who go into Cornell from CC. But it’s usually students who were borderline applicants in HS, but still amazing students (it takes a lot to be borderline for an Ivy). The thing that’s tough about transferring to an Ivy and other very prestigious private schools is the fact that they look at your high school grades/ test scores. A lot of us are in CC cuz we didn’t care enough in HS, and luckily got a wake-up call eventually. Also, when you fit your course curriculum to match what a private school wants (if you’re even able to do it) the thing that sucks is you have to do a course plan that’s tailor made for that specific school. The thing that is amazing about applying to the UCs is that part of their requirements are shared among all UCs. So if you finish the gen ed (IGETC) you finish it for ALL UCs not just one or two. So you don’t have to put all your eggs in one basket.
@happymomof1 interesting… where did you hear that? Unfortunately, I wish they would change their application process and not count HS against you. I feel like they’re missing out on some great potential students due to that requirement that essentially disqualifies the majority of CC students.
Note that the super-selective schools are not all the same in terms of what they are looking for in transfer students. For example, compare the transfer students profiled at Harvard and Stanford in these two articles:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/2/4/transfer-students/
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/11/01/small-mighty-cohort-transfer-students-joins-stanford-community/
Princeton has not admitted transfer students for many years, but is starting (again?) this coming admission cycle. What it has stated makes it appear that it is using transfer admissions like Stanford, to add what they consider interesting non-traditional students to their students.
https://admission.princeton.edu/how-apply/transfer-students
But note that neither model appears to be friendly to traditional age students who started at CC immediately after high school and apply to transfer in their second year. Of the more selective private schools, USC is probably the most friendly to such students. Of course, public universities like UCs and CSUs often have a “business model” that involves taking many CC transfer students.
A majority of transfers at Amherst come from cc’s.
All the friends I went to cc with transferred to St. John’s University in Jamaica NY.
I personally know of folks that started at community colleges and earned their degrees from the following after transferring: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, UChicago, Georgetown, Duke, Vanderbilt, Berkeley, USC, UCLA, Amherst, Williams
From my school I know someone who got into Yale for Math and heard of another person who got into Brown.
My friend’s brother started out at my local community college and transferred to Georgetown to study finance. He’s very intelligent and is graduating this May and has great success there. Go Hoyas!
2 students from my CCC got into Stanford!
@ShagunbaliI’m also at a local CCC, mind sharing where you went/currently attend?
A girl from my class last year got into Yale. She applied as a joke too and was totally shocked to get in.
@GoldenState1 I go to American River College in Sacramento!!
I got into USC, UCLA, and UCB as a transfer student from East Los Angeles College. I ultimately went with USC and recently graduated. I would have tried for something like an Ivy, but I had no high school grades or SAT/ACT scores. I was quite concerned that such institutions wouldn’t be pleased with my GED and the fact that I went to a community college in an area with like a 97% poverty rate.