I just want to know if those two universities will look at your highschool grades if you to a community college.
Check the information on their websites for application requirements for transfers. There should be a clear statement about whether or not high school records are required.
yes they will.
they require the HS transcript, in addition to a LOR from your HS college counselor, to be sent.
In addition, IF you already applied as a Freshman and were rejected, that will happen again.
they keep records of all applications for 3 years.
You’ve just finished your HS freshman year. Based upon your question, I’m assuming you’re not doing a stellar job and are already looking for ways to diminish your performance to date. You’re asking about getting admittance into the two most selective colleges in the USA. Perhaps you should expend more energy on being the best HS student you can be rather than fetishize H & S or some other top school.
Why don’t you go to the H and S sub-forums and look at their results threads. Look at the profiles of those 95% of kids who were rejected. You need to shake this prestige chasing thing quickly.
Realistically you can’t gain admission from a cc.
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This. Your high school record will be viewed and will play a significant factor in your admission. To add onto that, even Stanford’s website says that transfer admission is considerably more competitive than freshman admission.
The general consensus is that if you didn’t have the stats to get admitted as a high school senior, you won’t really have a chance to get admitted as a transfer student.
If you’re taking Algebra 1 as a freshman then I would honestly start exploring options other than ivies and similarly competitive schools, because nearly 100% if not all students admitted to top-tier schools have taken Calculus by the end of high school. Not having Calculus completed raises serious concerns about the rigor of your courseload and school. To give you an idea of your competition, my school has most freshmen taking Pre-Calculus their freshman year, but the majority of students still aren’t admitted to schools like Harvard or Stanford even with high standardized test scores and amazing extracurriculars.
@SAY, Stanford does take a relatively high number from CC’s (which is still a tiny number), but they tend to be CA CC’s and may be folks who hasn’t even thought of applying to Stanford from HS.
To help you with future questions like this, google the Common Data Set for each school. Section C has freshman admission info, section D info on transfers.
There are 3000 colleges in the USA…the ivys are only 8 of them.
Do your best in CC and then look for other realistic options (e.g., your state flagship university). Feel free to apply to an ivy as well. Even students with 1600/2400 4.0 GPAs don’t get into Ivys.
@bopper Your advice is sound. But the OP isn’t transparent on why he/she asked the question. OP is a HS freshman and is concerned with current state of grades, etc. He/She is wondering if proceeding onto CC will be a method to get admittance into Harvard or Stanford.
Likely, the best course of action for the OP is to do as well as he/she can in HS and apply to a realistic suite of target colleges as a HS senior. The fantastical idea that going to CC as a stepping stone to H or S in order to mask a HS transcript is simply untenable.
Stanford appears to take about half of its transfer students from CCs, but the total number of transfer students per year is only a few dozen at most. Also, they seem to emphasize the non-traditional backgrounds (e.g. military veterans) of many of their transfer students in their announcements.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/september/new-student-orientation-091712.html
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/september/class-new-students-091514.html
https://news.stanford.edu/2015/09/14/nso-starts-tuesday-091415/
Both colleges are nearly impjssible to transfer into, even for high performing kids with 2 years at a rigorous college.
OP, if you’re looking for a secret back door way to get into those, you’re off. And in general, off thinking is a pretty big roadblock to getting into any tippy top.
T26E4 is right that you need to focus on today’s work.
There are lots of choices between community college and Harvard and Stanford. You are only an HS freshman. Calm down and just do the best you can for the next two years and then sit down and come up with a realist list of colleges.