<p>There’s no hard and fast answer for what sort of stats you need to make a successful transfer app. NYU is not a very inferior school. We’re top 35 nationally (I personally consider that a bit of an overrating), but we have Stern and Tisch, 5th and 1st (respectively) nationally of their category.</p>
<p>Sternies are definitely very sought after. I’ll quote Gary Cohn, the President and COO of Goldman Sachs who spoke at an on-campus recruitment event I attended on Wednesday. “NYU is a tremendous source of talent and human capital for us. Those of you who went through a sort of mental self-selection process, who chose to place yourselves in an urban environment, at an academically rigorous institution and near the headquarters of three of the world’s largest financial services firms, two that way (pointing uptown) and one that way (pointing downtown) are the very sort of people we want.” Stern is no joke. Kids who choose to place themselves here do so for a specific reason: attaining success in their career.</p>
<p>If you were rejected from Stern as a freshman, don’t look at that as something that will hurt you but spin it in your essay as a benefit, i.e ‘being forced to go somewhere else led me to realize through experience how much I stand to benefit from the Stern culture instead of wherever-I-am-now’ or something.</p>
<p>You cannot transfer within NYU once you transfer from another school to NYU. Besides, that’s a complete wuss-out tactic anyway, and any Stern admissions rep would see that and frown on it. And the kids would hate you too. Good luck with your app though, I strongly recommend the school.</p>