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

Hanna
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 02:04:15 +0000

I met all the Harvard transfers every semeste from 1997-2002. I’ve had successful transfers to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford in my practice almost every year since then.

It is not about connections. People with connections generally get in as freshmen.

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.