Less than 100 students transfer into each year. Most come in as sophomores, after one year of college at a different institution. A handful enter as juniors, but Duke prioritizes sophomore transfers. To be a transfer by Duke, you have to have been enrolled in a college or university in the past four years, and will have at least one full year of transferrable credits under your belt by the time you would enroll at Duke. “Early college,” or taking college courses while in high school does not qualify you as a transfer — you must apply as a first year.
How to Transfer to Barnard College 2024-2025
Barnard is both a top women’s college in the United States, and a top college regardless of gender or identity limitations. It’s also a great college to apply to for transfer. While the recent first-year acceptance rate has been a mere 9%, the transfer admissions acceptance rate is about %. Barnard accepts transfer applicants for Fall Term or Spring Term admission, and the respective are March 1 and November 1. While far more students apply for Fall admission, there isn’t an advantage, historically, to applying for the Spring over the Fall, as they have been accepting the same percentage in each.
How to Transfer to the University of Michigan (UMich) 2024-2025
The University of Michigan, or UMich, is a large, public research university in Ann Arbor, MI. Michigan is a hard to get into school, with a first-year acceptance rate of around 18%, but out-of-state is much lower. However! If you’re interested in transferring, you picked a pretty transfer-friendly school. They have around a 40% transfer acceptance rate, but that doesn’t mean it’s the easiest school in the world to get into. Admission as a transfer is still highly competitive and requires you to have good grades and strong engagement with your current school’s culture.
How to Transfer to Vassar
How to Transfer to Wesleyan
Wesleyan University is a small, private, liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut. A liberal arts school not named after the town it’s in? Unheard of. Wesleyan started out as a men’s college, tried to admit women for a bit in the late 1800s (the “Wesleyan Experiment), then suspended that program in 1912 for sexist reasons (“losing their masculine edge”), but finally became co-ed in 1970.
How to Transfer to Wellesley
How to Transfer to Williams
Williams College is a small, private liberal arts college in the Berkshires, more specifically Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was started as a men’s college in 1793 (old!!), but became co-ed in 1970. Williams is known for their liberal arts curriculum, and their most popular majors include econ, bio, computer science, art, and English.
How to Transfer to Tufts
Tufts University, located just outside of Boston, is a private research university with a liberal arts feel. Because of its proximity to all the other Boston (and near-Boston, wink wink) schools, Tufts has a ton of programs/affiliations/and crossover opportunities with schools in the area. Since the school did start as a liberal arts college, majors like econ, psych, poli sci, and international relations reign supreme.
How to Transfer to Smith
Smith College is a liberal arts women’s college in Northampton, Massachusetts, and a member of the Seven Sisters colleges, the group of women’s colleges created to rival the (at the time) all-male Ivies. They also partner with Mount Holyoke, Amherst, Hampshire, and UMass Amherst to allow students to take classes at any of these other institutions.
How to Transfer to Swarthmore
Swarthmore College is a formerly Quaker, private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. We’re shocked – a liberal arts school named after the town it’s in! Who’d have thought?? Anyways, Swarthmore is part of the Quaker and Tri-College consortiums (consortii?) which means you can take classes at UPenn, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford.
How to Transfer to Scripps
How to Transfer to Pomona
Pomona College is a small liberal arts school located in Claremont, California. It’s a part of the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of schools that all share resources (and a campus!), made up of Pomona (duh), Claremont McKenna, Scripps, Pitzer, and Harvey Mudd. Each school has their own vibe and focus, but Pomona definitely has a broader liberal arts focus.
How to Transfer to Oberlin
Oberlin College in (you guessed it) Oberlin, Ohio (groundbreaking) is a small, private liberal arts school and music conservatory. Founded in 1833, Oberlin is the oldest co-ed school in the United States, the first college to admit Black students (1835), and the first college to admit women (1837), so it’s safe to assume that progressive politics and student activism are a huge part of the school’s culture.
How to Transfer to Pitzer
Pitzer College is a small liberal arts school located in Claremont, California, and it’s a part of the Claremont Colleges – a unique consortium of 5 undergrad colleges that share resources and a campus, but each school kinda has their own flavor. Pitzer is known for the social sciences, behavioral sciences, international programs, and media studies. It’s also a really progressive school with a huge social justice focus.
How to Transfer to Harvey Mudd
Harvey Mudd College is a small liberal arts school located in Claremont, California, and it’s a part of the Claremont Colleges – a unique consortium of 5 undergrad colleges that share resources and a campus. Harvey Mudd is the STEM Claremont College, with the most popular degrees being computer science, engineering, and math. If you’re looking for a stellar liberal arts school to get a well-rounded STEM education, then Harvey Mudd’s your ticket.
How to Transfer to Haverford
Haverford College, located in Haverford, PA, is a small liberal arts college that was founded by the Quakers (and is still very influenced by their philosophies, despite being secular today). Compared to many other similar liberal arts schools, Haverford definitely has more of a STEM bend, and even offers a Bachelor of Science degree.
How to Transfer to Middlebury
How to Transfer to Hamilton
How to Transfer to Amherst
Amherst College is a small liberal arts school located smack dab in the middle of Massachusetts. Amherst (the town) is peak college town vibes, with Amherst College, UMass Amherst, and Hampshire College all packed into 27 square miles. In addition to Amherst classes, students can take classes at UMass Amherst, Hampshire, or the nearby Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. Amherst is known for a totally open curriculum – no core classes to mess with. They’re also known for having an academic culture in line with the Ivy League, and they have the admissions stats to back it. In 2022, Amherst’s acceptance rate was 7.25%, and their transfer acceptance rate was 6%. To put it more plainly, 503 people applied to transfer to Amherst in 2022, and only 30 were admitted.
Transfer Extracurricular Club Strategies
Given that you’re reading this post, we’re going to assume that you are thinking of transferring colleges. While transferring to a different college isn’t a ‘big deal’ — it’s fairly common and we help many students navigate the process — orchestrating a ‘successful’ transfer does require significant planning. We should also explain what we mean by ‘successful.’ Most of the students we work with want to transfer to a college that they either didn’t get into when they applied to colleges as a high school senior, or that didn’t even seem like a possibility, so they hadn’t tried to apply. This means that they need to be a better applicant than they were as few as 10 months earlier. And a least three of those months were summer break. That doesn’t leave a lot of time to improve your application, so this whole process takes some strategy if you want the best possible outcomes.