<p>I would recommend Holy Cross as a better spring board for transfer. BC, for the school if you want to stay there or as a back up in case you can’t get out. It’s easier, IMO , to write that transfer essay from a small school and wanting to go to a bigger one like Cornell. Colleges like to see good reason for a transfer and do not tend to take transfers from like schools. A kid unhappy at BC is not going to see much different at Cornell, instance, whereas a student doing well at an intense LAC like HC, wanting a larger school and out of that location to a school like Cornell is a more understandable request. You can’t say what you really want which is you wan to be in an Ivy or a more highly rated school as that would be a death knell for transfer requests.</p>