<p>Well, at least you said Harvard instead of Princeton.</p>
<p>Now, I get a turn to be preemptive. Your post utterly insults of plenty of other transfer applicants who realize how impossible transferring into Harvard is, and settle for lesser ranked schools. Imagine the perfect applicant. His ethnicity is of the most underrepresented minority. He has attended MIT with a perfect 4.0 GPA for three semesters, taking impossible courses such as Calculus 4 and M-Theory. His SAT score is 2400, and he has taken 6 subject tests, scoring 800 on all of them. He went to the most rigorous high school in his state and graduated valedictorian. He has worked as a Google intern under Sergey Brin himself. He decides he wants to transfer into Harvard and files the transfer application.</p>
<p>Then, he receives a response from Harvard. He is on the waitlist. Why? Because his extracurriculars were lacking. Yeah, he spent all his time doing the hardest work imaginable, which led to little free time. One super-stellar internship was all he could manage.</p>
<p>Harvard’s transfer rate is 2%. I would guess many of the few who succeed have extremely powerful social connections. Maybe their mother is a dean at Harvard. Or their father is the CEO of Oracle.</p>
<p>Please, take a look at yourself and face reality. Someone else will definitely come and criticize me for blowing things out of proportion, but they will agree with the main idea. Your “desire” to go to Harvard is shared by just about every serious college applicant, yet they have specific, compelling, and genuine reasons to transfer. You think of your own college as a stepping stone to greatness, but you have yet to even experience one semester of college and see whether Stony Brook might be a better school for you than Harvard. Your post is more than preemptive. It’s infinitely naive.</p>
<p>The people who have succeeded in transferring to Harvard can tell you their end of the story. Everyone has a chance, even you. Then again, everyone has a chance of winning the lottery, should they try.</p>