Transferring from Stanford to Brown

DennisRJ92
Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:19:14 +0000

I decided to post this in the Brown thread instead of the Stanford one because I thought I might get more level headed discussion here.

Ok, so lets get some of the details out of the way. I’m an incomming freshman for the class of 2015. My SAT scores were average (1700’s) and my SAT II’s were in the (600-700) range. I was valedictorian at my high school, took rigiorous courses along with summer/semester programs and solid extracurriculars throughout high school. In the end I thought my application was strong enough that I didn’t think it was necessary to include my supplemental art portfolio due to time restraints.Hindsight being what it is I’m sure my portfolio would have helped to set me apart from the other equally/better qualified applicants. I picked Stanford after visiting Swarthmore and a few other small liberal arts colleges that I thought would have a similar feel to brown but size was an issue. I considered taking a year off and applying to brown as a freshman but the gates scholarship stipulated that I couldn’t.

I was wondering if I tried to transfer after freshman year with good grades, a supplemental art portfolio and of course compelling reason for wanting to go to brown ,would I have a good chance?(I know at this point anything you say will just be conjecture and I’m ok with that) Thanks for any input you can give me.

P.S. Just to avoid the ,“How can you know you want to transfer before you even started.”, debate my sister is entering her senior year at Stanford and from her experience thus far and being on campus theres just a very tangible vibe that I dont feel is the best fit for me. I’m going in with as open a mind as I can but know which school i’d prefer.