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Yale is a dream school for millions of students, but less than two thousand undergraduates make it into each graduating class. Most get in a first years, straight out of high school. However, there is another way in. Yale “enrolls a small number of transfer students” annually, accepting new students from both two-year and four-year institutions. Successful Yale transfer applicants community colleges, from the military, and from other well-respected universities.

Boston College is a medium-sized, private Jesuit college located in Chestnut Hill, MA – just outside of Boston. While the Catholic affiliation can scare away some students, we can tell you that Jesuits are pretty different than the mainstream image; they care deeply about education, social justice, and service. BC is known for their fantastic programs in Human-Centered Engineering, Econ, Finance, and Political Science, and is an all-around great school if you’re looking for a well-rounded liberal arts education.

Tufts University is a private research university located just outside of Boston in Medford, MA. While it’s a research institution, they’re also known for their stellar liberal arts programs and some of the most popular majors include computer science, international relations, and economics.

If you aren’t happy at your current college and are thinking, “maybe Harvard would do that trick?” you aren’t alone. Harvard is objectively awesome as an academic institution for nearly any field. Dreaming of a transfer to Harvard is very different than actually executing on that dream, however.

Johns Hopkins University is a medium-sized private research university located in Baltimore, MD, and is considered to be the first ever research institution in the United States! Pretty cool! Since Johns Hopkins is famous for their medical school, it’s no surprise that programs like pre-med, biology, public health, and biomedical engineering are some of their most popular and highly-ranked majors. Beyond just the medical-leaning STEM majors, the school has strong programs in social sciences like Econ and a very strong Computer Science department. 

Columbia University and Columbia Engineering consciously seek out strong transfer candidates to welcome to campus each year. The number who get accepted isn’t massive, though — a little . That wouldn’t necessarily be intimidating except that there are candidates for those few spots. The transfer acceptance rate fluctuates based on available spaces in the class, but has stayed in recent years.

If you were recently on the receiving end of a rejection letter from The University of Virginia, or UVA, we understand the pain. UVA is one of the top public universities in America, and they have the privilege of being picky. That doesn’t make a rejection any less disappointing, though.

Rice University is a medium-sized private research institution located in the heart of Houston, Texas – home to Beyonce, NASA, and the Texans. Rice is famous for their science and engineering programs, mostly because of their , but also has world-class programs in the humanities, social sciences, and business.

Swarthmore is an excellent small liberal arts school that has become intensely competitive to gain admission to in recent years. The college wasn’t ever easy to get into — or, at least, not in the past half century. But the acceptance rate has plummet more recently and more students than ever are receiving disappointing news in the Early Decision round.

We recently had the honor of interviewing Evan Bailyn, the founder of the Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) marketing genre. In addition to owning the most well-respected GEO agency in the US, he used to run a college admissions consulting business. Thus, we were very excited to get his take on how AI is changing the college application process.