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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is miserable at an Ivy.

How are chances to transfer to a school like Vanderbilt or Duke or Northwestern?[/quote]

Vanderbilt & Northwestern have built reputations as transfer friendly schools. Unfortunately, as this becomes more well known, getting admitted as a transfer student becomes more difficult. Nevertheless, any Ivy League student wishing to transfer out of Harvard, Yale, Wharton, or Princeton will probably receive extra consideration. Probably a bit less so for Columbia, Penn, or Cornell without a very specific reason for wanting to transfer to Vanderbilt or Northwestern. Not uncommon for some Columbia students to be overwhelmed with the core curriculum and life in NYC.

Whether true or not, many associate Dartmouth & Brown more with LACs than National Universities. There are similarities between Dartmouth students and Duke if the student is preppy.

The above two paragraphs should be regarded as opinion only as each transfer applicant receives a thorough review at Northwestern & at Vanderbilt.

Transfer students from community colleges often get very serious consideration as those students must move on from a two year college to a four year school. If the target school (Northwestern or Vanderbilt for example) believes that the community college transfer applicant can handle the academic work, then that transfer applicant from a CC will receive very serious consideration--especially true for CC applicants to Princeton University.

Among Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Duke, Vanderbilt offers the easiest transfer admission, while Duke is the toughest.

Duke & Northwestern require both high school & college transcripts; Vandy does not require high school transcripts.

Only Duke requires an interview.

[b]Vanderbilt[/b] received 2,932 transfer applications and accepted 553 ([b]about 19% admit rate for transfer applicant[/b]s). Yield was just over 50%.

[b]Northwestern[/b] received 3,264 transfer apps and [b]accepted 423 (almost 13%).[/b] Yield was about 54%.

[b]Duke[/b] received 1,679 transfer apps and [b]accepted 81 (just under 5%)[/b]. Yield was almost 62%.[/quote]

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