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Duke University welcomes only transfer students each year, most of whom arrive as sophomores. To be eligible, students must have completed at least “one full year of transferable college work,” by August before arriving at Duke, and should not have been completed while still in high school.

The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, often just called UMich, is a big deal. Not only is it a top-ranked public research university, but it is also home to a staggering undergrads, making it one of the largest schools in the country. UMich is also home to the College of Engineering, which is one of the best engineering schools in the US. While they don’t publish a specific engineering school acceptance rate, the overall acceptance rate is about . This rate comes with a pretty big caveat. As a public school, a little over half of the undergraduate population is in-state students. While it is competitive for any applicant to get it, it is far harder for out-of-state applicants. If you are serious about getting into UMich Engineering (especially if you don’t live in the Wolverine State), you must be an elite candidate. You need to take a couple of steps to ensure your application is competitive.

Dartmouth is for welcoming large numbers of transfer students. In a recent year, the transfer acceptance rate was only 1.6%. They accepted only 12 of over 700 applicants. That is an abysmal transfer acceptance rate. However, 12 students did get in. It is possible. Not probable, and certainly not easy, but possible. We help students make it happen.

Brown is an Ivy League university with a strong creative streak. Located in the heart of Providence, Rhode Island, Brown attracts students who want to go far while thinking differently. The university is looking for a diverse transfer student group, but that doesn’t mean that it is easy to get in. Most recently, Brown received 3,000 applications for transfer. Ultimately, they accepted only 215 — or 7.2%. Getting in, then, isn’t easy. It’s just about as hard as getting in as a first-year, and a strong application requires strategy and preparation well in advance of pressing submit.

Princeton is a school that needs no introduction, but let’s do it anyway. Princeton is an Ivy League research university in New Jersey. While they offer many different majors, some of the most popular are through Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Unlike some other schools, Princeton applicants don’t apply directly to the engineering school. Instead, applicants indicate (in a non-binding way) if they intend to pursue a BSE or AB and their likely area of interest (for engineers, there is also a short essay, but more on that later). This is all non-binding and once at Princeton, it is easy to change your plans.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (usually just called Georgia Tech) is a popular choice for engineering: duh, it’s right in the name. The public research university and institute of technology in the ATL has impressive programs in all things STEM, including undergraduate engineering through their College of Engineering. Georgia Tech is always competitive to get into; however, how competitive it is depends on where you are applying from. While their overall acceptance rate was around last year, as a public school, in-state students see higher acceptance rates. Last year, their in-state acceptance rate was 33%, while their out-of-state rate was 10% and their international rate was just under 8%. This means if you aren’t a Georgian, you need to be even more competitive. But how? Let’s break it down.

Data science is the bringing together of scientific principles with data to discover patterns and make predictions. Data scientists, and data engineers, use numbers and facts to inform governments, corporations, and, by extension, society as a whole. Predicting what will happen next or how to address a societal issue isn’t magic, it’s numbers. This is true whether it’s positioning a new toy on the shelves or designing a bug net roll-out to decrease cases of malaria. Both rely on data to be as effective and impactful as possible.

The University of Pennsylvania (also called UPenn and Penn) has been teaching engineering since the mid-1800s. The Philadelphia-based Ivy League offers an impressive list of engineering majors through its School of Engineering & Applied Science. While Penn provides a couple of specialized cross-school programs (including VIPER and Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology), the vast majority of hopeful UPenn engineers apply directly to the Engineering school. UPenn doesn’t release separate acceptance rates for its four undergraduate schools. However, Engineering is likely on the harder side of the spectrum given the popularity of its majors. Last year, UPenn’s overall acceptance rate was This is a very competitive rate. If you hope to become a Quaker, you need to be a top student. If you don’t know where to start, don’t worry, we have a couple of steps you need to take.

If you are a sophomore interested in studying biomedical engineering in college, you’re probably interested in medicine, passionate about engineering, and fascinated by the intersection of the two. Students who study biomedical engineering go into careers in research, they develop new medical devices and discover breakthroughs, they work for famed international corporations and local hospitals. Basically, there is a lot that you can do with a biomedical engineering degree. But how do you get to college graduation?