From Bama to Yale?

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Check male college soccer rosters—tons of transfers at all colleges. And they have 5 years to use their 4 years of eligibility. They want them older and more experienced.

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transferring from ‘bama to a second tier school is doable, but not T15. I would focus on second tier schools like Cornell, Georgetown, Rochester, or Bucknell - good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:New athletic transfer portal rules have made it look easier. Many transfers are athletes transferring to play from another school. My kid had 4 transfers onto their Ivy last year.

That would for sure color the numbers at Vanderbilt, Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, USC, and Notre Dame. The transfer portal is a real thing for the schools that are trying to compete - unlike a Brown or Columbia or Yale. Don't take the transfer numbers seriously at these schools. It's going to be 2 percent at T20 schools all around for the non D1 athletes.

Yale has a QB transfer from Wisconsin. Kids move down for playing time as well as moving up to bigger programs

And Vanderbilt imported their QB from New Mexico. With absolutely outstanding results.

The academically strong D1 sport schools have a different reality these days when it comes to transfers. You can't compare SEC Vanderbilt or ACC Duke or independent Notre Dame with Columbia or Yale or Williams or the other schools that aren't competitive. So the transfer numbers can be misleading. No top athlete is transferring to Wesleyan or whatever.

Williams and Wesleyan are D3, so you're right about them. Top athletes are transferring into ivies, not the very tippy top but good athletes. Kids at power programs realize they just aren't big10 material or they see the difference between themselves and NFL bound teammates and they transfer somewhere they can play and where their degree will hold more value

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Anonymous wrote:New athletic transfer portal rules have made it look easier. Many transfers are athletes transferring to play from another school. My kid had 4 transfers onto their Ivy last year.

That would for sure color the numbers at Vanderbilt, Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, USC, and Notre Dame. The transfer portal is a real thing for the schools that are trying to compete - unlike a Brown or Columbia or Yale. Don't take the transfer numbers seriously at these schools. It's going to be 2 percent at T20 schools all around for the non D1 athletes.

Yale has a QB transfer from Wisconsin. Kids move down for playing time as well as moving up to bigger programs

And Vanderbilt imported their QB from New Mexico. With absolutely outstanding results.

The academically strong D1 sport schools have a different reality these days when it comes to transfers. You can't compare SEC Vanderbilt or ACC Duke or independent Notre Dame with Columbia or Yale or Williams or the other schools that aren't competitive. So the transfer numbers can be misleading. No top athlete is transferring to Wesleyan or whatever.

Vanderbilt University bought the New Mexico State University coach (Jerry Kill) who brought the NMSU star QB along. Great results.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale transfer acceptance rate is 1.76 percent.

It's generally not feasible to transfer to a top 20 school. It doesn't hurt to try, but wouldn't count on it.

I wonder how much f that is athletics through the transfer portal; for all the kids transferring up to bigger programs, there are kids transferring down from bigger programs.

Good point. My DC's school has quite a few athletes that were at large state universities and transferred in to play out their last year of eligibility. It's great for those kids who are really talented but weren't getting playing time at their old school. A few blossom and get noticed by the NFL scouts and those that aren't NFL material get a great degree.

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Anonymous wrote:Check male college soccer rosters—tons of transfers at all colleges. And they have 5 years to use their 4 years of eligibility. They want them older and more experienced.

The 5 year thing is key. My DC's private school has quite a few football players that spent 4 years at a big state school and have transferred in to play one more year and get a MBA. Works out well for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:transferring from ‘bama to a second tier school is doable, but not T15. I would focus on second tier schools like Cornell, Georgetown, Rochester, or Bucknell - good luck!

Below T5, US News rank is not that useful for telling what schools are hard to transfer to.

USNWR #6 Northwestern 12.7% transfer acceptance rate
USNWR #13 Brown 4.1% transfer acceptance rate

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Vang takes a ton of transfers that aren’t athletes, my dd, college sophomore, knows a few. Apparently it’s pretty widely known that it is significantly easier to get into Vandy as a transfer than as a freshman.

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Anonymous wrote:Vang takes a ton of transfers that aren’t athletes, my dd, college sophomore, knows a few. Apparently it’s pretty widely known that it is significantly easier to get into Vandy as a transfer than as a freshman.

This is about Vandy, not sure what autocorrect was doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Transfers are very hard. If trying to transfer after freshman year then they will look at high school record. Need a compelling reason for transfer and I think community college students and such are prioritized over students trying to transfer to upgrade without a real need like a niche program not offered at cheer school. That’s my limited understanding from things I’ve read, no personal experience.

Some schools like Harvard also favor military veterans as transfer students. https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/apply/us-military-veterans#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20separate%20or,may%20apply%20as%20transfer%20students.

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Anonymous wrote:transferring from ‘bama to a second tier school is doable, but not T15. I would focus on second tier schools like Cornell, Georgetown, Rochester, or Bucknell - good luck!

Since when are Cornell and Georgetown second tier?!?! That’s ridiculous. These are top schools.

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Anonymous wrote:transferring from ‘bama to a second tier school is doable, but not T15. I would focus on second tier schools like Cornell, Georgetown, Rochester, or Bucknell - good luck!

Since when are Cornell and Georgetown second tier?!?! That’s ridiculous. These are top schools.

2nd tier doesn't mean what you think it means. You're thinking about third and fourth tier.

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Anonymous wrote:Vang takes a ton of transfers that aren’t athletes, my dd, college sophomore, knows a few. Apparently it’s pretty widely known that it is significantly easier to get into Vandy as a transfer than as a freshman.

Maybe easier, but their recent transfer acceptance rate is still about 15%

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What about a midway decent LAC? It might have a similar vibe.

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Anonymous wrote:Transfer acceptance rates are even lower than first year admissions, you saw Yale and I think Brown is around 3%.

Brown is 3% for regular decision directly out of HS. It might be even lower for transfers. At convocation there weren’t many walking through the gates this year.

Mine got in last year, believe it was 5% for regular. It was a good day watching him walk through that gate!

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It's been 5% overall for a few years. 3%RD.