brand_182

As per College Board. Keep in mind the data presented on CB has been proven wrong in some instances, though in most cases it matches that in the school's Common Data Set. I was very surprised at the fluctuations: some schools with notoriously low transfer rates (Caltech, for instance) have jumped considerably, while others have dropped. Just goes to show how random the rates can be.

Oh, and by the way, Brown did finally release some numbers, though they are dismal.

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National Universities

Princeton - 0%
Harvard - 8.1%
Yale - 3.9%
CIT - 9.2%
Stanford - 5.1%
MIT - 6.3%
UPenn - 12.4%
Duke - 7.9%
Dartmouth - 12.6%
Columbia College - 6.3%
Columbia Fu - 24.1%
Chicago - 25.9%
Cornell - 27.0%
WashU - 24.6%
Northwestern - 22.7%
Brown - 3.0%
Johns Hopkins - 15.0%
Rice - 27.4%
Vanderbilt - 33.9%
Emory - 36.0%
Notre Dame - 35.9%
Carnegie Mellon - 13.0%
Berkeley - 29.1%
Georgetown - 24.7%
Virginia - 37.2%
Michigan - 39.9%
UCLA - 40.7%
UNC - 41.2%
USC - 26.6%
Tufts - 14.1%
Wake Forest - 39.3%
William & Mary - NR
Brandeis - 48.2%
Lehigh - 51.2%
Wisconsin - 51.3%
Boston College - 10.5%
NYU - 31.8%
Rochester - 28.0%
Case Western - 38.9%
UCSD - 64.3%
GIT - 40.9%
UIUC - 46.7%
UWashington - 54.4%
RPI - 63.3%
UCI - 70.8%
Tulane - NR
Yeshiva - NR
Penn State - 47.7%
UT - 41.5%
UCD - 69.7%
UCSB - 70.4%

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Liberal Arts Colleges

Williams - 7.5%
Amherst - 17.3%
Swarthmore - 17.2%
Wellesley - 29.1%
Carleton - 10.6%
Bowdoin - 8.9%
Pomona - 7.9%
Haverford - 7.2%
Davidson - 27.4%
Wesleyan - 22.5%
Vassar - 21.5%
Claremont Mckenna - 10.7%
Grinnell - 38.9%
Harvey Mudd - NR
Colgate - 30.1%
Hamilton - 3.4%
Washingon & Lee - 17.6%
Smith - 43.0%
Colby - 7.2%
Bryn Mawr - 25.4%
Oberlin - 29.6%
Bates - 24.1%
Macalester - 19.5%
Mount Holyoke - 44.2%
Barnard - 25.5%
Colorado College - 36.2%
Scripps - 27.8%
Bucknell - 40.2%
Reed - 40.8%

imran

are these transfer rates that was the case for applicatns LAST year, or the current season we're in?

brand_182

There is no way to have the numbers for the current season as decisions are still being made at most schools. These numbers are for 2006.

On a more personal note, I think WashU is going to be lower this year (2007), probably around 20%. Yay us!

Jay1020

Thanks for the stats brand_182.

blehhh...NYU needs to lower their percentage a tiny bit. Below 29% looks somewhat exclusive. Anything above that=3.7 and up is in. (i know, i know, "holistic application" etc etc..i'm just speaking from a general point of view).

That high Cornell xfer rate looks very tempting even though I'm sure it's probably misleading.

brand_182

No problem. I found them very helpful in the past (2005 data) when making my decisions of where to apply. NYU's transfer rate is a tad-bit high, but still impressively lower than many schools ranked above it. (the schools are in order according to USNews rank, by the way).

And yes, Cornell's acceptance rate is deceiving as there are so many separate colleges.

tenniscraze

Why's Cornell's rate deceiving?

Jay1020

tenniscraze: some of their schools are relatively easy to get into, and that increases the percentage, others are exclusive just like the rest of the ivy's.

Speaking of Cornell, do they have a finance major for undergrads or some sort of major in the business field? If so, under what school? I only see Economics on their site...

brand_182

Jay - yep. Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The college has an overall acceptance rate of 50%, but AEM is supposedly the hardest major to gain admission to as well.

Jay1020

Is that the closest major they have to Business/Finance?

Why does it have such a high acceptance rate? You'd think that CALS would have the lowest bc of vast number of majors available.

I appreciate all the info brand_182, wish there were more ppl like you @ CollegeConfidential.

crillen

If you want to receive a B.A in Economics From Cornell. You probably want to apply to the College of Arts and Science as a transfer student, which the acceptance rate is about 8% last year. Although it is much easiler to transfer to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and to major in Applied Economics and Management, please note that you need to have a lot of courses done before applying such as the Biology classes for two semester....i still don't understand why Biology has sth to do with Economics....maybe because it's a specific requirement for that college.

By the way, thank you so much for the rankings, Brand 182. I found the following acceptance rate which was not listed in your post, hopefully they are useful:

Top University:

William & Mary 52%

Yeshiva University 74%

Tulane University 82%


Top Liberal Arts College:

Harvey Mudd College 8%

brand_182

Jay - that is as good as it gets if you want to study business at Cornell. I'm not sure why CALS has such a high transfer rate; some have suggested it is due to Guaranteed transfers, but I don't know for sure. I don't know the specific transfer rate for AEM, but the freshman acceptance rate last year was 16%...things are often harder for transfers.
Glad to have helped.

thanks for the other numbers crillen.

Cavs019

Brand I found out via the transfer day Q&A panel that none of Cornell's stats include GT's.

brand_182

That's what I thought too since it says "special students not included" at the bottom of the transfer rate by college sheet. That is definitely inspiring for those of you applying to Cornell then . I almost wish I had now.

tenniscraze

Is Yeshiva traditionally a Jewish university?

Student615

Yes: http://www.yu.edu/index.asp?M