<p>All,</p>
<p>Just curious how competitive the transfer pool is for Stanford; I’ve heard possibly more competitive than undergrad admission? In either case, I was rejected EA this year and may try and transfer next year. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to receive a Trustee Scholarship at USC, where I’ll be attending in the fall. Are there any CCers out there who have successfully transferred to Stanford? Insight would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Iffyplanes.<br>
Count your blessings that you received a Trustee scholarship at USC and make the most of it.
Stanford keeps the records of past applications for 3 years, and if you weren’t even WL this year, it is not likely that your transfer application will get a second look. You would have to do something truly extraordinary in college to transfer into Stanford, especially since the only way a spot opens up is if students drop out, or if their yield is lower than expected, and that hasn’t happened in the last few years.
The transfer acceptance rate at Stanford recently has been much smaller- >1% - than the Freshman acceptance rate. </p>
<p>@menloparkmom</p>
<p>Are you sure that they keep records? Since they told me they didn’t… I actually need them to keep records so I don’t run into the same problem with my high school again when I apply as a transfer…I had a horrendous time getting my school/teachers to submit items which probably cost me any chance of getting into stanford.</p>
<p>Honey, they will pull up your previous application, see that you were rejected and reject you again.
AND You DO have to contact your HS to send an official copy of your transcript and school report AGAIN.</p>
<p>SCHOOL REPORT
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“Ask your counselor or other official at the high school from which you graduated to submit the School Report with or without a letter of evaluation. If you graduated more than five years ago, the School Report is not required.
OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS
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Request official transcripts from every college/university you have attended.
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Ask your high school counselor to submit your final high school transcript or a certified copy of your final examination results.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/group/uga/application/transfer/index.html”>http://www.stanford.edu/group/uga/application/transfer/index.html</a></p>
<p>Dont bother trying to reapply to a college that rejected you as a freshman- it is a waste of time.
Many have tried, all have failed.
I have seen it again and again over the past 10 years on CC.</p>
<p>“Many have tried, all have failed.” That’s an incredible claim. The following is not a transfer counterexample, but it’s related: an acquaintance of mine was rejected at Princeton, then he reapplied SCEA the following year during his gap year; thereafter, he was accepted. I don’t think it’s always true that adcoms just refer to the decision from a previous year when evaluating an applicant.</p>
<p>@DanielHendrycks</p>
<p>The difference is that the person you know was accepted during a gap year. That isn’t a transfer, that would be standard undergraduate admission. </p>
<p>@RedSn0w
Certainly. More factors are different between a person applying as a freshman and then a transfer than applying as a freshman and reapplying the next year as a freshman, in general. It would make sense that they wouldn’t sieve out transfer students based on a previous decision, as they don’t do that for reapplying freshman. It’s especially sensical they wouldn’t do that sieve because so much could have changed. My analytical argument here is still somewhat weak, so I’m wondering if anyone here can back up the claim that “adcoms reject all transfer applicants that were rejected as freshman.”</p>
<p>“It would make sense that they wouldn’t sieve out transfer students based on a previous decision, as they don’t do that for reapplying freshman”</p>
<p>You are comparing apples and oranges. As a Freshman applicant, students are competing for one of over 2000 spots. As a transfer applicant, a student is competing for[ in comparison] a teeny, tiny number of spots -maybe 20? which is completely dependent on how many students withdraw from Stanford. </p>
<p>If Stanford did not even offer a WL spot to this student when he applied as a Freshman, then what can that same student accomplish in only 1 semester that will give the adcoms reason to admit him this time?
This student should take advantage of all that at Trustee scholarship at USC offers- at no cost to him or his family- and apply to Stanford for grad school. </p>
<p>@DanielHendrycks</p>
<p>I think the general consensus is that it’s not impossible, but it is incredibly incredibly difficult. Especially as a transfer.</p>
<p>Thanks all for the input; I had my doubts and I think they were somewhat confirmed that the odds of admission are extremely low for transfer. Maybe Stanford will call for grad school, but until then I’ll have a great time at USC B-) </p>