The Secret of Why You Will NEVER Get Into an Ivy League School Part 2

[Jonathan Whatley]

Transfer to an Ivy is now fairly rare. In a recent year Harvard College accepted 4% of freshman applicants 0.8% (less than 1%) of transfer applicants. Cornell did accept 15.7% of transfer applicants.

My friend was one of the eighth tenths of one percent, a transfer to Harvard College from a California community college. She was my lab partner at Harvard Extension – her academic advisor permitted her to take organic chemistry at Extension toward her College degree because it worked better with her schedule than the College organic chemistry. Stellar young scientist any research university would be lucky to have and she went on to work in a National Laboratory.

The Republican nominee for president transferred to an Ivy. He started at Fordham then transferred to Penn, albeit assisted by a family friend in the admissions office and a transfer acceptance rate that was barely competitive at the time.

Much higher chance if you'd accept a prestigious school outside the Ivies like a state flagship. Some community colleges have especially notable records of sending transfers to prestigious schools. Santa Monica College states it sends the most students to the University of California System, many to nearby UCLA.