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Students have used The Transfer Book to transfer to these schools

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Features

  • Real transfer essays that students used successfully to enter Stanford, Penn, Columbia, Cornell, and other schools
  • 179 pages of our best information from interviews with 65 transfer students and a dozen admissions officers
  • Unlimited free updates for life (we update the book at least once a year)
  • 12-page quick start guide that will get you up and running even if there’s less than a month left before your deadline
  • Our Rule #1 that will quickly help you decide if transferring is right for you, and will make the rest of your application process as smooth as possible
  • A complete walk-through of every single part of the Common Application
  • A simple and polite way to let your professors know exactly what they should mention in their letters of recommendation for you, and that will actually have them thanking you for saving them time

Authors

Chris Goodmacher is a guest lecturer on transfer students at Columbia University’s graduate school of education. He co-founded Transferweb.com and transferred to Dartmouth. He holds graduate degrees from the London School of Economics (Philosophy and Public Policy) and Oxford University (Financial Economics).

Lan Ngo is a PhD student and research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She co-founded Transferweb.com and transferred to Stanford. She received her Master’s degree in Education from Columbia University.

Both authors think that transferring doesn’t have to be as painful as it often is.

Readers love The Transfer Book

For even more reviews, see our reviews page.

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The best thing the books did for me is show me that transferring really is possible. There is literally NO information out there about transferring… Seeing that other people like me who took a semester off and then successfully transferred was really encouraging throughout the process.

Amber, who used The Transfer Book to transfer to Scripps College

Initially, the main reason I bought this book was because of the essays. I could find literally thousands of admission essay books but none of them (at least not that I know of) have essays specifically written by transfer students. This book had so many helpful tips and strategies and sample essays that it helped me tremendously in the process of writing my own essays. Besides the wonderful essay component, I was very surprised that the other part of this book was very good. It helped me a lot in my school selection process as well as getting on the right track to transfer.The interviews were very helpful and interesting also. After years of reading College Confidential and VietAbroader, I thought I knew it all but I did not!

Nghiem, who used The Transfer Book to transfer from a community college to Cornell

I can say that I truly believe if it weren’t for the Transfer Book, I would not have been able to get through the process myself nor would I have been able to write one of the best essays I have ever written. I read every single page of the Transfer Book (some sections multiple times!) and learned so much. Thank you so much for everything!

Gia, who used The Transfer Book to transfer to Northwestern

I bought The Transfer Book and must confess that its really amazing! It is gradually keeping my hopes up that transferring from an HBCU (historically black school) to an Ivy is a POSSIBILITY! Thank you!

Shadrack, who used The Transfer Book to transfer to UPenn

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