Transferring out of NYU!

NYU2013
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:22:53 +0000

Princeton doesn’t accept transfer students, so that’s out.

Harvard takes like 15 per year which is like 1% of all applicants who apply, and your grades just aren’t good enough to get you a slot there.

Stanford took 58 students out of 1,400 who applied. (4%) Again, your grades are not high enough to make you a competitive applicant. Most students will have perfect or near perfect grades throughout HS and college.

Columbia took 149 students out of 2,600 who applied (5%). While you have a better chance at Columbia than Stanford or Harvard, it’s highly unlikely - if you couldn’t have gotten into Columbia as a high school senior, there’s almost no possibility of you getting in as a transfer student.

Remember, transfer admissions are almost always much more competitive than freshmen admissions. Your 3.5 first term GPA just isn’t good enough to make into the above schools, your low SAT and low HS GPA make it all much worse for these schools.

Notre Dame you may have a chance at, but I would recommend looking at other universities - if you need FA it’s going to be hard for you to get good FA, as transfer students generally don’t get good aid.

I would recommend looking at Emory (very good FA), Gtown, USC, UVa, Michigan as your top choices for transfer. Anything above these universities is highly unlikely due to very competitive admissions.