Chance Me: Yale transfer 2022

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Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:21:16 +0000

Some schools are much more transfer-friendly than others:

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Transfer Acceptance Rates at US News Top 50 - Transferweb

Transfer rates for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn, Columbia, and the entire US News Top 50.

So, Yale and Princeton are tough nuts to crack, simply because they take so few transfers, out of a very strong applicant pool. Most students who bother to apply there as transfers will have grades like yours and things like volunteering and club-leadership on their records. The few they accept will have something special that stands out, above and beyond that high baseline.

For schools that give preference to in-state transfers (which includes Cornell), the encouraging acceptance rates may not generalize to the prospects of an out-of-state applicant, but can still be worth a try.

The important things for pre-law are to keep your grades up and avoid undergrad debt. You can get into a top law school just as well from UF as from an Ivy. Are full-need-met private U’s affordable for you? If you qualify for financial aid such that these elite U’s are as affordable for you as UF, then consider adding some more transfer-friendly full-need-met schools to your list, such as Vanderbilt, Emory, Dartmouth, WashU, Notre Dame, BU, and Wesleyan. But if you’d be full-paying (or close to it) for these, it may make more sense to keep up the stellar grades at UF (or Miami if you get the FL funding there as a transfer) and aim for a tippy-top law school.

Congrats on your strong record!