Anonymous wrote:UChicago is a good school. It has a pretty good reputation because people know that it is decent academically. It doesn't have sports and that type of thing but many students like it.

If your major is something like nursing or to become a school teacher there are less expensive and just as good alternatives for you to attend.

Anonymous wrote:UChicago is a good school. It has a pretty good reputation because people know that it is decent academically. It doesn't have sports and that type of thing but many students like it.

If your major is something like nursing or to become a school teacher there are less expensive and just as good alternatives for you to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't they say it's extremely difficult to transfer from one T10 to another T10? I thought they took most transfers from community colleges and veterans?

Most T20 prefer lateral transfers (ie. from other national research universities, T20s, top LACs), with the exception of HYPS.

Previous discussion on this topic:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1312685.page

"A transfer from one T10 to another is extremely unlikely to succeed. They all have a 98 percent or so retention rate, so there aren't many spots available. And they typically prioritize students who didn't get a chance for to apply as freshman - could be bright community college students, could be military, could be a lot of things. But the last thing a T10 university needs is yet another standard smart kid that brings nothing new to the college."

Which one is true?

Every single transfer I know/I've seen (~50) to T10/T20 came from another national research university or LAC (excluding HYPS). This is anecdotal, but I've also looked through LinkedIn and seen the same trends.

These were the schools that took many lateral transfers:

Columbia
Vanderbilt
UVA
Brown
Cornell
UChicago
UPenn

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't they say it's extremely difficult to transfer from one T10 to another T10? I thought they took most transfers from community colleges and veterans?

Most T20 prefer lateral transfers (ie. from other national research universities, T20s, top LACs), with the exception of HYPS.

Previous discussion on this topic:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1312685.page

"A transfer from one T10 to another is extremely unlikely to succeed. They all have a 98 percent or so retention rate, so there aren't many spots available. And they typically prioritize students who didn't get a chance for to apply as freshman - could be bright community college students, could be military, could be a lot of things. But the last thing a T10 university needs is yet another standard smart kid that brings nothing new to the college."

Which one is true?

Every single transfer I know/I've seen (~50) to T10/T20 came from another national research university or LAC (excluding HYPS). This is anecdotal, but I've also looked through LinkedIn and seen the same trends.

These were the schools that took many lateral transfers:

Columbia
Vanderbilt
UVA
Brown
Cornell
UChicago
UPenn

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't they say it's extremely difficult to transfer from one T10 to another T10? I thought they took most transfers from community colleges and veterans?

Most T20 prefer lateral transfers (ie. from other national research universities, T20s, top LACs), with the exception of HYPS.

Previous discussion on this topic:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1312685.page

"A transfer from one T10 to another is extremely unlikely to succeed. They all have a 98 percent or so retention rate, so there aren't many spots available. And they typically prioritize students who didn't get a chance for to apply as freshman - could be bright community college students, could be military, could be a lot of things. But the last thing a T10 university needs is yet another standard smart kid that brings nothing new to the college."

Which one is true?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't they say it's extremely difficult to transfer from one T10 to another T10? I thought they took most transfers from community colleges and veterans?

Most T20 prefer lateral transfers (ie. from other national research universities, T20s, top LACs), with the exception of HYPS.

Previous discussion on this topic:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1312685.page

"A transfer from one T10 to another is extremely unlikely to succeed. They all have a 98 percent or so retention rate, so there aren't many spots available. And they typically prioritize students who didn't get a chance for to apply as freshman - could be bright community college students, could be military, could be a lot of things. But the last thing a T10 university needs is yet another standard smart kid that brings nothing new to the college."

Which one is true?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't they say it's extremely difficult to transfer from one T10 to another T10? I thought they took most transfers from community colleges and veterans?

Most T20 prefer lateral transfers (ie. from other national research universities, T20s, top LACs), with the exception of HYPS.

Anonymous wrote:Didn't they say it's extremely difficult to transfer from one T10 to another T10? I thought they took most transfers from community colleges and veterans?

Anonymous wrote:I would do some research before trying to transfer to Columbia. This was years ago, but I considered it and the intensive first year core requirements would have made it very onerous to transfer there. You could not waive out of a number of the core requirements and would be forced to take them sophomore year. I was admitted but declined for that reason.

Anonymous wrote:My DC was not happy to go to UChicago via ED2 either. But, now, no way DC would consider transferring to any other school; DC has won multiple academic, life, and career lotteries at UChicago that I cannot dream up f. So, calm down and let her experience UChicago first.