Transfer Admissions!

EPorrell22
Fri, 27 May 2005 13:34:47 +0000

bball87:

basically, one can do very well for one semester and transfer to places like Stanford, Harvard, etc.



There is no specific formula for getting into these schools. With acceptance rates below 10%, there is no way to predict who will get in and who won’t.



bball87:

Do you guys have great high school records?



My stats are posted in this thread… but the general trend is if you are applying (successfully) to the top programs after one semester of college work, you better be able to back up the success with high school performance. Most people who did poorly in high school (e.g. are nowhere near the range of the schools’ freshman admits) complete two years of college before successfully transferring to the top programs.

Once more, I cannot stress enough the fact that the top programs (Harvard, Yale, MIT, etc.) are nearly impossible to transfer into and luck plays as important a role as academic excellence.

-Eddie-