<p>HYSP etc are VERY hard to transfer into. Generally speaking the people have great HS stats with ECs and went to CC for some weird reason (maybe financial?) Usually they’ll take rigorous (engineering-like) courses and loads at CC. Furthermore it really helps if they come from an affluent family that can afford to pay the full tuition. </p>
<p>-At my CC this would include taking Honors Calculus 2 which is a course taught by a Berkeley PH.D. graduate and equivalent to the Math 1A and 1B at Berkeley. The professor says it’s harder than the 3 hardest APs combined and it is. </p>
<p>Cornell and Columbia are easier to transfer into because they have larger student bodies. What I said above would for would still hold true… except it’s just easier because their is a larger student body. </p>
<p>The other pathway is athletic. My CC has a Ivy League quality Crew Team; in fact they play against the Ivy League teams. That means during meets, our CC crew members have the opportunity to talk with Ivy League coaches. Basically the people who have been VERY good have been directly recruited to Stanford’s Crew Team and transferred in that way. </p>
<p>In short it’s doable to transfer if the person is exceptional and not just a “typical” 4.0 student with some student govt exp at CC. </p>
<p>Personal Disclosure: I am applying to Berkeley Haas which is one of the hardest programs for a typical CC transfer to be admitted for (others would be engineering at Cal and UCLA, etc.). I believe I have a good chance of being admitted to Haas undergrad and at the same time think I have zero chance of getting into an Ivy league school. Reason being: applying to Haas I am only competing with other CC students; apply to Stanford and I am competing with everyone, including students at Ivys. </p>
<p>H&Y accept relatively few transfers from CCs; most transfers are from other selective public and private colleges and the military academies. S is different and as many as half of it’s transfers can be from CCs or NTs.</p>
<p>None of these schools have need aware admissions for transfers, and they offer THE best need based FA to students that qualify as they treat transfers like fr admits.</p>
I would take those kinds of claims as guidelines rather than concrete policies. In the end the admissions department will want to keep the financial aid department happy by ensuring a certain ratio of students who can pay. When people are applying to the top any edge they can get helps. </p>
<p>There are schools that are need aware such as B, but HYS are not. That IS a concrete policy, admissions and FA operate separately at these schools.</p>
<p>I would add, anyone that cares to look at my posting history will see that I am not one to assume generosity in FA based sheerly on claims. On the contrary, I’m the one asking why someone is applying to an OOS public, if they need FA, etc.</p>
<p>These 3 schools have hugh endowments and have the ability to admit students not based on need. I’m not extending this statement to any other schools, only these three for transfer students.</p>
<p>You should apply to Stanford even if you think you won’t get in. I’ve heard of people who have gotten into ivy-league without much heavy science and mathematics. i believe the guy who transferred to Yale, the second link i posted, graduated in political science. </p>
<p>Google Jason Acosta Montgomery college 2007 transfer students, the school wrote a story about him.</p>
<p>also look up the Jack Kent Cooke foundation, I just saw many stories there.
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Look at this one:</p>
<p>The girl was a high school drop-out and got into Stanford as a transfer from a CC.</p>
<p>^ I forgot about that, that is another way to get into an Ivy league school; massive community service involvement and over coming obstacles. </p>
<p>“Jason Acosta began his work in youth outreach initiatives”
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" Gordon. lived in a toyota… She joined volunteer groups and tutored… Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship (scholarship for helping people)’’</p>
<p>I know that at least for Stanford, being a veteran is a definite hook on the application. The percentage of combat veterans in the transfer classes for the last three years has ranged from 10-16 percent. </p>