<p>Hi!</p>
<p>Is the competition really much fiercer when applying as a transfer student?</p>
<p>Personally, I have two options:
1/ Go to Imperial college (unconditional offer) in the UK and then transfer to a US college (after the 1st or 2nd year by the way?)
2/ Decline the Imperial College offer and reapply as a freshman student next year (I applied to HYPS and was rejected by them all).</p>
<p>Thank you guys for your replies</p>
<p>Competition at HYPS will always be competitive, whether you’re a normal undergrad or a transfer student. It may just be fiercer because of the limited amount of space that each school has to offer to all prospective transfers. So, the competition is highly dependent on the amount of space these schools have; the logic is, the less space the more competition, especially at HYPS because these schools usually never have a ton of openings anyway. I suggest that you go to Imperial college, you never know, you just might end up liking it more than those ivies; once you’ve been there for a while, you can really gauge how you’re enjoying your experience. If you still feel the need to go to an ivy, the option to transfer is still there.</p>
<p>Well Princeton doesn’t accept transfers.</p>
<p>HYS do. But it’s pretty, well, it’s very difficult.</p>
<p>If you are willing to look at other schools outside of those three, you’ll find that some schools have higher acceptance rates for transfers than for freshman, and vice versa.</p>
<p>Go to Imperial College, and then apply as a transfer. Don’t waste an academic year for the sake of going to those schools; it would probably look better to pursue your academic career than wait around to apply again. If I were an admissions officer (which I am not), I wouldn’t want to admit a rejected student who applies for freshman admission again. Sure it shows determination, but at the same time, you could make better use of your time and talents by choosing to attend college in the UK.</p>