<p>Do ivies take into account that some classes are much harder than others when looking at your gpa (and if so, how do they know)?</p>
<p>Whats the usual gpa of an ivy-level accepted student?</p>
<p>Lastly, does an yone know the transfer statistics for stanford (I'm thinking of Yale/Stanford, and I know yale is ridiculously low (along with columbia and harvard) but I don't know about stanford)?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>pretty much u need a perfect 4.0</p>
<p>well, i hope that isn't the case coming from another ivy (especially one that grade deflates, i.e. Cornell)</p>
<p>I don't know the usual gpa of ivy-level accepted transfer, I'm wondering that too!</p>
<p>The following stats are from US News</p>
<p>Stanford
Applicants: 1345
Accepted: 100
Enrolled: 78</p>
<p>Columbia
Applicants: 1196
Accepted: 125
Enrolled: 72</p>
<p>Harvard
Applicants: 955
Accepted: 55
Enrolled: 55</p>
<p>Yale
Applicants: 696
Accepted: 26
Enrolled: 21</p>
<p>hope that helps</p>
<p>who the hell are those 5 Yale acceptees, that are turning it down and who are the 22 Stanford kids turning it down.</p>
<p>most likely scenerio is that those 27 people in total also applied to Harvard and got in and they all went to Harvard. thats the most likely story</p>
<p>or they could have committed suicide, ya know?</p>
<p>due to the over joy that they experienced when they were accepted lol?</p>
<p>Can you really not get into an ivy with an A- average, period, end of story? (with hard classes, good ECs, excellent essays, recs, reasons for wanting to attend, etc.)</p>
<p>Related Harvard question... does anyone know if more of those spots are generally for incoming sophmores or juniors?</p>
<p>a representative told me the average transfer grade to stanford is 3.3. screw stanford though hahah</p>
<p>wwwhhhat? that cannot be real. I should try to transfer to Stanford if that's real....</p>
<p>thats simply talking between drunken friends, no hard feelings. it is hard to get in stanford preiod.</p>
<p>what do you mean much harder classes? how hard can be classes during the first two years? hard classes can help when you have a good GPA but cannot be an excuse.</p>
<p>for shganov, i'm serious, they had a booth at my community college (when i was there 1-2 years ago, and the representative was saying the avg transfer gpa is 3.3) and someone even made the comment "you can't be serious" and i remember thinking that too. then she said that they look for leadership too. just repeating what i heard from the stanford rep.</p>
<p>i would really love it if it was the case but it says that 95% of the accepted transfers have GPA between 3.5 and 4.0, so even if the last 5% had a 2.0 I don't think it would do it.
however, since you are at cal cc, that changes things a bit and it is probably easier.
good luck.</p>
<p>I could swear I read on the Stanford webpage that their recommended GPA for transfer was 3.7 or 3.8. It will differ with the school, though.</p>
<p>A woman at Cornell told me 3.3 was alright for Cornell, coming from an already top-ranked school, but she didn't specify by Cornell school and expectations for LAS might be a lot higher, dunno.</p>
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<p>One of them would be a student who was admitted last year, but chose to stay.</p>
<p>escape, ru applying to cornell...</p>
<p>I doubt it -I just thought it was worth looking into for curiosity's sake, but I'm really interested in a top-10 LAC. They're just more competitive than Cornell for transferring. I contacted Bowdoin and Middlebury though, and they (unlike the prissier Amherst and Swarthmore) said I sounded like a reasonable candidate GPA-wise with my explanation of sickness. I hope I hope I hope...</p>
<p>Then there is Wellesley, which is a fairly solid school that accepts 30% of students because it's all girls, which is also the reason it would not be first choice of where to transfer.</p>
<p>"They're just more competitive than Cornell for transferring."</p>
<p>This depends at which school you are applying to Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell Arts/Sciences takes around 15-17 percent of transfer application, while Engineering may take around 30 percent. 15 percent isn't a lot, and I can ensure you that Cornell arts/sciences is more competitive than any of those LACs that you are listing as a transfer candidate.</p>
<p>I don't know -all I know is that the transfer admissions counselor at Cornell said I would be a strong candidate with my current GPA from Smith. She didn't bother to inform me if I would actually not be a strong candidate for the arts and sciences school. How do you know Cornell isn't receiving a lot more applications from lower-tier college students than say, UChicago or Bowdoin, accounting for a smaller acceptance %?</p>