'A Second Freshman Year': Harvard’s Transfer Students

Penn95
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:37:29 +0000

There are plenty of individual reasons why HYS may serve a student better than Penn, Cornell, Berkeley, etc. If you don’t know about the faculty who are leaders in obscure subfields of a discipline, then you don’t know what those reasons might be. I have barely heard of some of my clients’ specializations before I worked with them. I had a Cornell-to-Harvard transfer 15 years ago whose life’s work was Francophone literature. I learned all about it from him.

@Hanna
Penn and Columbia and Cornell have offerings that one cannot find at HYPS undergrad. However I haven’t heard of anyone trying to transfer from HYS to those three, yet there are plenty every year trying to transfer the other way around. I dont doubt that there are some genuine cases but I think prestige pays a huge part in this decision for most, and in some cases it is the only consideration.