Transferring from Stanford to Brown

thefunnything
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:13:47 +0000

Everyone on this thread needs to calm down and stop making assumptions. We don’t know what the circumstances behind the OP’s application were, and it shouldn’t really matter. There are patterns in admissions (i.e. top schools prefer students with 2100+ SATs), but it doesn’t ring true for everyone. At Brown I know people who are neither legacies nor minorities, and also who do not come from particularly unusual backgrounds, AND scored below 2000 on their SATs. They just happen to be talented individuals.

Yes, the OP shouldn’t be worrying too much about transferring to Brown given that he (she?) hasn’t actually started at Stanford yet. But saying that the OP does not “deserve” to go to Brown given that s/he is thinking about transferring with such bad SAT scores is unnecessarily aggressive. So is saying that other students were “more qualified” than the OP on the basis of his/her SAT scores. Again, the OP has not extrapolated on his/her application, so we don’t know what got him/her in.

The OP asked about chances. It’s fine to say that the SATs are sub-par, or don’t think about transferring yet, but the comments above are completely out-of-line.