Hardest to transfer into

slipper1234
Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:29:44 +0000

I would honestly keep Cornell, in spite of GTs (which are mostly in the CAS), Cornell makes plenty of room for other transfers. I’ve known alot of people who have had success there.

Columbia is a great place, but as someone who went there for grad school i think as a transfer you’ll be much happier at Dartmouth as an undergrad transfer. Dartmouth gives transfers an advisor, engages them in orientation within the first year orientation (so you get to know that class too), you have sophomore summer to meet your class (and the "re-orientation trips then!), the quarter system allows for multiple study abroads even as a transfer, if you are into the frat scene rush is sophomore year (!), the community is small enough so you meet people fast, etc.

On the other hand Columbia doesn’t even truly offer dining for second years. That said, if community doesn’t matter that much to you and you are more of an urban type of person Columbia would be a great choice in spite of the lack of a first-year there. Columbia and Dartmouth are very different schools.

I would say Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell are “must applies” with perhaps Columbia added if its lack of a community for transfers isn’t a real issue.