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[quote=Anonymous]It depends where she is hoping to transfer...

Many "tippy top" schools do not take many transfers, and depending on the school, the transfers they DO admit may be focused on community college, first generation, and veteran students (example: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/02/22/princeton-will-enroll-more-transfer-students-starting-fall or https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/beyond-transfer/how-amherst-college-became-champion-community-college-transfer-students).

I think there's a myth that transfer admissions are "easier" than first-year at the highest ranked schools. That's not necessarily the case.

Consider this transfer data from this past year:

Stanford -- 2216 applied, 86 admitted
Yale -- 1311 applied, 22 admitted
Harvard -- 1376 applied, 17 admitted
Brown -- 2293 applied, 81 admitted
Duke -- 1274 applied, 69 admitted
Dartmouth -- 435 applied, 43 admitted
Amherst -- 470 applied, 33 admitted
Williams -- 500 applied, 15 admitted
Swarthmore -- 430 applied, 7 admitted

Each of these schools enrolled smaller cohorts than they admitted (I'm assuming there's ovelap among their admits)

I'm willing to bet that your child is likely not going to fall into the groups that are being prioritized by these schools for transfers (though I don't know your child, so could be wrong).

Of course there are exceptions where some take more...but these aren't huge admit rates...

Columbia (doesn't share data, but anecdotally)
Northwestern -- 3434 applied, 375 admitted (11% admit rate)
Cornell -- 5908 applied, 929 admitted (16% admit rate - and includes their "guaranteed transfer" students in the counts)
Vanderbilt -- 2450 applied, 430 admitted (17% admit rate)

If your child has a reasonable list of places they hope to transfer, that might be an option....but I would not go into the first year with that plan (assuming not taking the CC path).

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