trapactus

Hey guys, I was wondering what exactly are universities like Stanford look into for candidates applying as transfer students. I am currently going through 1st year of college and I was am thinking of applying for such a place. Are there standards and requirements the same as the ones they got for freshmen or do they seek something different. If anyone has any tips/or even personal experience related to the above it would be of great help. Thanks!

camomof3

For this fall, Stanford accepted only 31 transfer students (this is typical for Stanford-- they take very few transfer students). For more information about these students:

Stanford welcomes Class of 2016 and incoming transfer students

trapactus

so i guess for an international applicant (especially one that is just beginning college) unless you have done something completely out of proportion u shouldnt even think about it.

Sikorsky

For a lot of America's most famous universities, unfortunately, that's probably correct. Besides Stanford, Harvard and Yale take very few transfers, and Princeton takes none at all.

This is not to say that there are no excellent, well respected American universities that take transfers. But gaining admission to many top universities in the U.S. is notoriously harder than gaining freshman admission. And for international applicants, gaining freshman admission is already plenty difficult!

trapactus

understood. thanks for the info! btw @Sikorsky is it possible i can give u a profile of my work to give me some advice on the chances I have for the unis I am pursuing? (I will apply as a freshman anyway since I have not yet completed a year at college... havent even started yet (uk))

Sikorsky

I'm sorry, trapactus. Even if I looked at your profile, I really wouldn't know what to make of it. I know that the competition among international applicants is even greater than among American applicants, but I really don't know how to assess where anybody in the international pool stands.

Heck, a lot of the time, what I can say about American applicants isn't even particularly useful: "Many successful applicants have a profile like yours, but still most applicants with such a profile are disappointed. Could be, but no guarantees. Might as well give it a shot...." That sort of thing.

horticuldstation

I have no idea about international applicants, I think that's a whole other ballgame, however there are many prestigious universities that take a fair amount of transfers. Unfortunately, Stanford isn't one of them