Transfer from Wharton undergrad to Harvard/Yale/Princeton?

gibby
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:37:46 +0000

One of the questions any Admissions Office asks themselves when looking at transfer applications is “Why us?” Yale is more clear on the issue than Harvard:



Transfer candidates should also have particularly compelling and well-defined academic reasons for wishing to attend Yale.

Wanting to leave one’s current school is not a sufficient argument for admission to Yale. Transfer candidates should explain in their application essays how studying at Yale would give them an educational opportunity particular to their interests that could be experienced nowhere else.



As you can receive a liberal arts education by transferring to the UPenn College of Arts and Sciences ([Policies Governing Transfer Within the University | University of Pennsylvania - College of Arts and Sciences](Policies Governing Transfer Within the University | College of Arts & Sciences - University of Pennsylvania)) that’s the first question an Admissions office is going to ask. Why us and not UPenn?