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If you are considering submitting a transfer application to Yale for the fall of 2025, the odds are not in your favor. For the fall of 2023, Yale received 1,479 applications for transfer. They accepted 18. That鈥檚 a acceptance rate. That is, objectively, absurd. Getting into Yale as a first-year is hard enough, only . Very few people get into Yale at first years, very few people choose to leave before graduating, opening up spots for transfer, and so there are nearly no spots available. So, how do you decide if you should apply to Yale as a transfer? And how do you know if you really might have a chance?
Admissions to Williams is one of the most sought after acceptances among small liberal arts colleges. The same holds true for transfers, which they admit for fall enrollment only. In this post, we鈥檒l break down what you need to know to write your strongest Williams transfer application. First, though, let鈥檚 talk numbers.
What, like it鈥檚 hard? Sorry to burst your bubble. Yes, transferring to Harvard is extremely hard. Harvard is an elite research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And it is easily one of the most famous schools in the world.
The University of California, Berkeley is an public university and part of the impressive University of California system. It鈥檚 regularly cited as the public university in the world. They can over 100 Nobel laureates, 19 Pulitzer Prizes, and over 200 Olympic medals.
From being a user experience designer to identifying and fixing security weak points in crucial infrastructure, computer science offers a huge variety of potential career trajectories for students to consider when figuring out what they want to major in as a college student. Because it鈥檚 such a diverse field, paired with high starting salaries, computer science has become one of the most popular majors for top students around the world.
Dartmouth is not known for accepting a ton of transfers. Actually, they鈥檙e known for the opposite. They accept very few. Very, very few. 鈥淚n recent years,鈥 , 鈥淒artmouth has enrolled between a handful and two dozen new transfer students.鈥 For students enrolling in the fall of 2023, Dartmouth received nearly 800 applications, but accepted only a dozen applicants. The transfer acceptance rate 1.6%.
So, you want to transfer to Stanford? We get why. Stanford is an elite private research university in California鈥檚 Silicon Valley. It is world-famous for its STEM majors, sports, and cutting-edge research.
Kenyon College is a liberal arts school with a close-knit community and under 2,000 students on 1,200 acres in . The college is writing-centric and strongly creatively driven. The average class size is small, just 15 students, and the focus on writing is prevalent across all departments, not just in the humanities.
Wellesley College is a women鈥檚 liberal arts school in Wellesley, MA. We know we just said it, but a reminder: this is a women鈥檚 college. While it is not far from Boston, Wellesley doesn鈥檛 feel urban. With forests, a golf course, and a private lake, the campus is perfect for those looking for the picturesque. Wellesley boasts popular programs in economics, political science, and world-class sciences.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is widely considered one of the best universities in the world, especially for STEM subjects. It is also one of the hardest universities in the world to get into. You may have experienced this, by being rejected when you applied as a senior in high school, or by simply deciding not to even apply because you didn鈥檛 think you even had a chance of getting in. Or it wasn鈥檛 even a decision to not apply and MIT wasn鈥檛 on your radar in high school. Whatever the reason, if you have decided that MIT is actually where you need to be you are, my friend, in for an uphill battle.