Is UPenn the only exception?

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<p>As far as I know…</p>

<p>With a 3.9~4.0 high college gpa, it is much easier for a student to transfer to other schools as a junior transfer instead of sophomore with only one exception:
For a student who had an amazing high school record, since he/she could probably also transfer with a same good chance after freshman year. (basically, amazing highschool record + 4.0 college gpa = 2 years of 4.0 college gpa)</p>

<p>Again, the above is just something that I understood and concluded after many many opinion hearings and searches of “Official transfer results threads” of many different schools.
So correct me please… if you believe this is wrong.</p>

<p>Anyways… Upenn’s wharton school states </p>

<p>"Students are encouraged to transfer after their freshman year to enter for their sophomore year. There are very few spaces available for entering juniors. "</p>

<p>I haven’t seen anything like this in other schools. Normally with a high 3.9~4.0 college gpa, it would generally be easier to transfer as junior, but Upenn’s seems to be an exception.
Is Upenn’s wharton school the only exception? Does anyone know any other school like this?</p>

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<p>What Wharton is saying is that they prefer soph transfers, likely because they want students to be in their program for a longer time so that they are more vested in it.</p>

<p>The extreme case of this is Princeton, they don’t take any transfers because they want all of their students from the get go. I wouldn’t be surprised if schools with a ‘core’, like Columbia and UChicago, also prefer soph transfers.</p>

<p>It doesn’t say anything different about what’s needed to be a successful soph or jr transfer. Applicants with good HS records and test scores will still be more viable candidates as soph transfers. It just means that the applicants who didn’t do well in HS and need 2 yrs of college to prove themselves will be competing for fewer spots at Wharton.</p>