Which College would people have a better chance...

Transfer Students
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<p>Which College would people have a better chance transferring out from to get into a college like Harvard, NYU?</p>

<p>Wesleyan or University of Rochester</p>

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<p>Wesleyan…</p>

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<p>It would actually be very odd for someone to transfer from Wesleyan to NYU, IMO. And yes, Wes is a much better school than Rochester.</p>

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<p>wait brand why is it weird if someone transfers from wesleyan to nyu? if i get into nyu i’ll be transferring out from middlebury. I’m just curious because now that I’ve gotten into Barnard I’m questioning if its wise to transfer out of middlebury…I guess the more we have the more we want? Its weird I would have killed to be in this position but now I’m just confused about where I stand.
Your opinions would help.</p>

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<p>im not so sure one can judge what will be weird. People transfer from Columbia to Harvard, Stanford to Yale, Harvard to Yale, Yale to Harvard. I’m not quite sure how they justify the changes on their applications - certainly, in most cases, academics cant be a huge factor - yet this happens quite often. </p>

<p>with that said, i transfered from UR to Yale (accepted to H and C too), and I think you’ll do fine coming from there. I’m not sure Wes will give u a significantly better shot, though in my experience, the higher ranked the school you’re coming from, the better off you are.</p>

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<p>Well, I don’t think there’s any considerable difference in prestige b/w those schools like there is b/w Wes/Midd and NYU.</p>

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<p>University of Rochester is part of the new 25 Ivies and Wesleyan is not.</p>

<p>Liberal Arts Wesleyan ranked 10
National- Rochester ranked 34 </p>

<p>Is every one saying that Wesleyan is better than University of Rochester</p>

<p>Rochester is highly reguarded on their Academics</p>

<p>Some sites gave Rochester an A and Wesleyan a C based on Academics</p>

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<p>That is a joke. That list of new “ivies” is the biggest crock i’ve ever seen. There is a new athletic conference being established with these 25 schools? Right. Also, I’d rather be a member of the NESCAC than some garbage fabricated by a magazine. Skidmore is on it as well. No one in their right mind thinks URoch, or Skidmore is a better school overall than Wesleyan, which is also more selective/has a stronger student body than NYU.</p>

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<p>new ivies = way for publishers to sell more magazines by taking advantage of people’s interest in colleges</p>

<p>Wesleyan = little ivy (alongside Amherst and Williams) for the past 150+ years. Considerably more difficult to gain admission to and stronger class than URochester.</p>

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<p>Swarthmore and Middlebury I think are other little ivies. and maybe Bowdoin and Haverford as well.</p>

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<p>well they might as well be considered that but the term little ivies has historically referred to wes, amh, and williams.</p>

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<p>“Little Ivies” is just a term that people that dont know about athletic conferences use to describe the NESCAC</p>

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<p>New Ivies is a silly term, and it’s possible that the Little Ivies is too. But the fact that the Wes was not on the NEW Ivies list has (I’d guess), a lot to do with the fact that it is a “little Ivy”…NEW Ivy lists are for schools that are more recently becoming popular/prestegious, etc. LACs like Wes, Amherst and Williams aren’t on those lists because they’ve been established as selective for a long time. As for the sites that give Was a C…they don’t matter for transfering. What people in academia think matters. And believe me, Wes is respected. </p>

<p>But anyway, the real answer is where do you think you will thrive more? Because what will really make the difference when you apply to transfer (IF you decide that’s what you really want to do after a year at whichever you pick) is your GPA/activites/etc.</p>

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<p>Little ivies is just as meaningless as the term “ivy” to me. It is as Weskid said: my purpose in that bit of information was to show that Wesleyan has long been considered a top LAC and one of the best schools in the nation. “New ivies” is meant to refer to schools that are really starting to advance with regards to prestige and academics, which is why you don’t see Harvard, UChicago, or Amherst on that list either.</p>

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<p>Wesleyan, Williams, and Amherst are called the Little THREE. Not the Little Ivies. “Little Ivies” doesn’t actually mean anything, but the Little Three does. It’s been around for a really long time (since the 1800’s, I think), and it’s a mini-athletic conference. All the sports teams have a Little Three title.</p>

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<p>Bowdoin is rated higher than Wesleyan</p>

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<p>I think it’s a little strange that you would put NYU along Harvard. NYU the school may make some difference but at Harvard you better be a super stellar candidate and even then you are up against a large percentage of the other applicants who have similar stats/stories, I would think that it wouldn’t matter where you went, if you are a competitive candidate at Harvard which school you come from will be a very small factor.</p>

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<p>The New York Times considers Bowdoin a “new Ivy”. Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing. :/</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/education/16admissions.html?hp[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/education/16admissions.html?hp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>So everyone thinks that Wesleyan is a better school to transfer from than University of Rochester</p>

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<p>No. Please, go to Rochester.</p>