<p>Well, i got rejected, but i may transfer to harvard next year from XXX. I wanna know
1, if there’s ANY difference between a four-year harvard student and a transfer student???
2, is there any difference when they graduate from college and apply for jobs???
3, will the resume appears to be " a transfer from XXX to Harvard" and then result in the different consideration of the student from a four-year harvard graduate???</p>
<p>thank you…im screwed up now.</p>
<p>Your transcript will reflect both schools. Your resume can say whatever you like. I only have the year I graduated and the degree I received - with notation of major and honors. Is there a difference between being a transfer student and one who attended all four years. Sort of. You miss your freshman year so you don’t have the same time to explore options before jumping on to your major. I think it’s a little harder to make friends when friendship are established. The only transfer I knew went back to Swarthmore after a year at Harvard.</p>
<p>Transfer students can proudly claim both schools or just the school they graduated from - whichever they prefer to emphasize. Look at Barak Obama. All the bios you see for him mention that he graduated from Columbia, which he did. But he also attended his first two years at Occidental College in LA and then transferred. He can choose to emphasize the Columbia connection or the Oxy connection, depending on which suits his purposes.</p>
<p>I’m hesitant to give you advice on this partly because I believe you should try to enjoy your first year at whatever school you go to instead of thinking about transferring; I know it may sound clich?, but it’s true. You only have so many years of life to live and to think that one whole year is spent in preparation for transferring seems well, illogical. (Since many have already spent much of high school in tense ‘preparation.’</p>
<p>With that said, I’m a transfer student myself and I really like my fellow transfers. I’m going to admit I can’t tell whether some of my friends really transferred with a great reason or whether they were like you and simply transferred because they wanted to be at Harvard. Some at least give a good (whether true or not) believable reason (rather than simply I want to be at Harvard) and I tend to want to believe them. </p>
<p>In regards to your questions: 1) Well of course. I’m not sure what you mean by different. If you mean that people will treat you differently then, in general, no. Transfers are different though because your experience of the College is different…period. You’ve experienced the good and crappy parts of another college and suddenly, the crappy parts of Harvard don’t seem too crappy. The good parts seem really good. You know what ******** at Harvard is and what the gift is. It gives you a mortal, yet balanced perspective at Harvard. (Though I’m not saying others don’t appreciate Harvard as it is…just differently) Further, you will have never lived in the freshman dorms, which means there are certain experienced you will have missed. You arrive at Harvard less wide-eyed and (slightly) worldlier. </p>
<p>2) Probably not.</p>
<p>3) Well that depends. I would think people would not discriminate negatively against transfer to Harvard. Further, if your potential employer was a transfer student him/herself, you might be in a better situation. Unless of course, he attended the school from which you transferred. </p>
<p>My actually bit of advice? Same thing as before. Enjoy your first year wherever. You may like it and never want to transfer.</p>
<p>If you do end up getting in…be sure that I’ll be somewhere welcoming you. You will probably see me.</p>