<p>I was at a research conference in Stanford last Friday. The director for undergraduate admission, Michael something (I forgot his last name), gave a speech regarding transferring to Stanford. He admitted that Stanford took more than half of their transfer from Community colleges last year and that they’re following the same pattern this year.</p>
<p>fantastic!! :(</p>
<p>really…? i applied from an ivy as a sophomore…</p>
<p>yea i dunno why stanford does that. all other top tier schools don’t really like cc. i mean stanford is not even a public school that’s obligated to take cc’s.</p>
<p>michael pichay. hes from a ccc.</p>
<p>Yeah, him. Apparently, they’re interested in “diversifying” their student body.</p>
<p>mlt555 why 2012? To be ahead of the pack?</p>
<p>i would guess that california has a strong population of cc transfers because the uc’s are so open to them. i guess stanford jumped on the band wagon. this is cool with me; i’m a cc transfer! ;)</p>
<p>Great for you guys, not so great for me haha.</p>
<p>well the thing last friday was Stanford University’s 2nd annual COMMUNITY COLLEGE HONORS research symposium – so I do think Stanford sees how CC students can offer something different to the student body, Michael came from a bay area CC if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>The symposium last year also had 5 different student speakers during the workshop for highly selective universities they had after the symposium, of which I believe at least 4 out of 5 transferred from CCs – there was one lady that in her late 40s and had 5 kids, some crazy stuff. In any case, I hope they accept more people this year whether it be from a CC or what not.</p>
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<p>The transfer rate at S has been consistently low (ca. 2%) for many years now, I wouldn’t anticipate a significant change this year.</p>
<p>well, maybe i get points for being old (32).</p>
<p>It’d pretty much suck if the yield rate for the Freshmen class was so high that they didn’t admit any transfers.</p>
<p>I’m not too worried if the transfer rate is between 20 and 40 accepted applicants. I pulled out my “crippled since high school graduation” card, my “artist” card, and my “genius” card (just completed two years of rigorous mathematics in one year), and my minority card. This 2% acceptance rate has me worried that I had to pull out stuff I never pulled out before. So, I’m just saying it’d suck if they weren’t accepting transfers… all those sleepless nights for nothing…</p>
<p>I would be heartbroken if Stanford did that. I don’t think they would though after the reaction Harvard got for doing it. I still can’t believe a university the likes of Harvard would find it in any way appropriate to suspend an admissions program <em>in the middle of</em> admissions season. I didn’t apply to Harvard, but I honestly believe they should’ve accepted even a few even if it meant dealing with overflow just for the sole reason that people had already applied and poured their heart and soul into their applications. They could’ve just suspended the transfer program the following year and admitted fewer freshmen in subsequent years to deal with the housing crunch.</p>
<p>wow, with all those cards my hand is looking abysmal.</p>
<p>My “cards” just got crumpled. 0-0</p>
<p>Hey, I have a question:
If you applied for Junior, is it possible to be still admitted as a Soph?</p>
<p>I pulled a crap load of “cards” too. My hand seems good so far. Oh well, in the worst case, I’ll just go to the UCs.</p>
<p>And yes, it’s possible to be accepted as Sophomore. I vaguely remember one of the student panel from this year’s conference transferred as a Junior, but is a sophomore at Stanford.</p>
<p>no michael came from Elco. He went to berkeley. He is young.</p>
<p>what’s elco?</p>