Transfer Acceptance Rates at US News Top 50
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Fall 2010
| US News rank | College | Freshman rate | Transfer rate | Transfer rate +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard | 7% | 2% | -5% |
| 1 | Princeton | 9% | 0% | -9% |
| 3 | Yale | 8% | 5% | -3% |
| 4 | Columbia | 10% | 7% | -3% |
| 5 | Stanford | 7% | 2% | -5% |
| 5 | U Penn | 14% | 15% | 1% |
| 5 | Caltech | 13% | 7% | -6% |
| 5 | MIT | 10% | 4% | -6% |
| 5 | U Chicago | 19% | 14% | -5% |
| 10 | Duke | 16% | 9% | -7% |
| 11 | Dartmouth | 12% | 4% | -8% |
| 12 | Northwestern | 23% | 11% | -12% |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins | 21% | 10% | -11% |
| 14 | Washington U in St. Louis | 21% | 9% | -12% |
| 15 | Brown | 9% | 11% | 2% |
| 15 | Cornell | 18% | 22% | 4% |
| 17 | Rice | 21% | 26% | 5% |
| 17 | Vanderbilt | 18% | 41% | 23% |
| 19 | Notre Dame | 29% | 37% | 8% |
| 20 | Emory | 29% | 36% | 7% |
| 21 | UC Berkeley | 22% | 23% | 1% |
| 22 | Georgetown | 20% | 23% | 3% |
| 23 | Carnegie Mellon | 33% | 17% | -16% |
| 23 | USC | 24% | 27% | 3% |
| 25 | UCLA | 23% | 29% | 6% |
| 25 | UVA | 33% | 40% | 7% |
| 25 | Wake Forest | 40% | 30% | -10% |
| 28 | U Michigan | 51% | 41% | -10% |
| 29 | Tufts | 24% | 11% | -13% |
| 29 | UNC Chapel Hill | 32% | 41% | 9% |
| 31 | Boston College | 31% | 16% | -15% |
| 31 | Brandeis | 35% | 46% | 11% |
| 33 | College of William & Mary | 32% | 43% | 11% |
| 33 | NYU | 38% | 30% | -8% |
| 35 | U Rochester | 38% | 22% | -16% |
| 36 | Georgia Tech | 52% | 34% | -18% |
| 37 | UC San Diego | 38% | 56% | 18% |
| 38 | Case Western Reserve | 67% | 30% | -37% |
| 38 | Lehigh | 38% | 36% | -2% |
| 38 | UC Davis | 45% | 66% | 21% |
| 38 | U Miami | 39% | 35% | -4% |
| 42 | UC Santa Barbara | 46% | 52% | 6% |
| 42 | U Washington | 57% | 45% | -12% |
| 42 | U Wisconsin | 57% | 45% | -12% |
| 45 | Penn State | 55% | 42% | -13% |
| 45 | UC Irvine | 45% | 49% | 4% |
| 45 | U Illinois | 67% | 47% | -20% |
| 45 | UT Austin | 47% | 41% | -6% |
| 45 | Yeshiva | 72% | 80% | 8% |
| 50 | George Washington U | 32% | 27% | -5% |
Fall 2009
| College | Freshman rate | Transfer rate | Transfer rate +/- |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva | 62.6% | 73.8% | 11.2% |
| UC Davis | 46.2% | 69.9% | 23.7% |
| UC Santa Barbara | 48.2% | 66.4% | 18.2% |
| UC San Diego | 37.6% | 61.9% | 24.3% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 42.8% | 61.6% | 18.7% |
| UC Irvine | 44.2% | 60.7% | 16.6% |
| U Illinois | 65.2% | 51.6% | -13.5% |
| Vanderbilt | 20.1% | 51.3% | 31.1% |
| U Washington | 57.7% | 46.7% | -11.0% |
| U Wisconsin | 57.2% | 46.1% | -11.2% |
| Penn State | 51.6% | 44.4% | -7.3% |
| U Michigan | 50.0% | 43.7% | -6.3% |
| College of William & Mary | 33.5% | 43.7% | 10.2% |
| UT Austin | 45.3% | 43.2% | -2.1% |
| Emory | 29.7% | 39.5% | 9.8% |
| UVA | 32.1% | 39.4% | 7.3% |
| U Miami | 44.4% | 39.2% | -5.2% |
| Lehigh | 32.8% | 38.6% | 5.8% |
| Brandeis | 40.4% | 36.8% | -3.7% |
| Case Western Reserve | 70.0% | 36.8% | -33.2% |
| UNC Chapel Hill | 31.6% | 35.7% | 4.0% |
| Georgia Tech | 58.8% | 35.4% | -23.4% |
| Notre Dame | 28.6% | 34.5% | 5.9% |
| NYU | 37.8% | 33.4% | -4.4% |
| UCLA | 21.9% | 31.7% | 9.9% |
| Wake Forest | 37.5% | 28.8% | -8.7% |
| USC | 24.4% | 25.9% | 1.5% |
| UC Berkeley | 21.6% | 25.6% | 3.9% |
| Tufts | 26.6% | 25.6% | -1.0% |
| Rice | 22.3% | 25.3% | 2.9% |
| Cornell | 19.1% | 22.4% | 3.3% |
| Boston College | 30.1% | 21.3% | -8.7% |
| U Rochester | 38.7% | 21.2% | -17.5% |
| U Penn | 17.7% | 19.5% | 1.8% |
| Washington U in St. Louis | 22.2% | 17.9% | -4.2% |
| U Chicago | 27.3% | 17.7% | -9.6% |
| Northwestern | 27.1% | 15.9% | -11.2% |
| Carnegie Mellon | 36.3% | 15.3% | -21.0% |
| Georgetown | 19.8% | 14.0% | -5.8% |
| Duke | 18.9% | 12.7% | -6.2% |
| Johns Hopkins | 31.3% | 8.5% | -22.8% |
| Brown | 11.2% | 8.2% | -2.9% |
| Columbia | 9.8% | 6.1% | -3.7% |
| MIT | 10.7% | 6.0% | -4.7% |
| Dartmouth | 12.6% | 5.9% | -6.6% |
| Cal Tech | 15.3% | 4.5% | -10.8% |
| Yale | 7.5% | 2.3% | -5.2% |
| Stanford | 8.0% | 1.9% | -6.1% |
| Princeton | 10.1% | 0.0% | -10.1% |
| Harvard | 7.5% | 0.0% | -7.5% |
Fall 2008
| College | Freshman rate | Transfer rate | Transfer rate +/- |
|---|---|---|---|
| UC Davis | 52.6% | 70.3% | 17.7% |
| UC Santa Barbara | 49.2% | 67.5% | 18.3% |
| UCSD | 41.6% | 65.3% | 23.7% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 44.1% | 60.7% | 16.6% |
| Vanderbilt | 25.3% | 55.9% | 30.6% |
| University of Washington | 61.0% | 55.8% | -5.2% |
| UC Irvine | 48.7% | 55.7% | 7.0% |
| U Illinois | 69.1% | 54.9% | -14.2% |
| College of William and Mary | 34.1% | 52.6% | 18.5% |
| University of Texas - Austin | 43.5% | 46.1% | 2.6% |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | 52.7% | 45.7% | -7.0% |
| Penn State | 51.2% | 44.6% | -6.6% |
| Case Western Reserve | 73.3% | 43.2% | -30.1% |
| Notre Dame | 26.7% | 41.9% | 15.2% |
| University of Michigan | 42.1% | 41.2% | -0.9% |
| UNC Chapel Hill | 34.0% | 39.2% | 5.2% |
| Georgia Institute of Tech | 60.9% | 36.9% | -24.0% |
| UVA | 36.7% | 34.9% | -1.8% |
| UCLA | 22.8% | 34.5% | 11.7% |
| Emory | 26.6% | 33.6% | 7.0% |
| NYU | 32.1% | 31.1% | -1.0% |
| USC | 21.9% | 29.3% | 7.4% |
| Lehigh | 27.9% | 27.7% | -0.2% |
| Cornell | 20.7% | 27.5% | 6.8% |
| UC Berkeley | 21.6% | 26.1% | 4.5% |
| Rice | 23.0% | 25.8% | 2.8% |
| University of Rochester | 42.7% | 25.6% | -17.1% |
| Wake Forest University | 38.4% | 25.5% | -12.9% |
| University of Florida | 39.5% | 25.1% | -14.4% |
| Brandeis | 32.4% | 22.5% | -9.9% |
| Northwestern | 26.2% | 22.0% | -4.2% |
| Tulane University | 27.0% | 20.6% | -6.4% |
| Washington U in St. Louis | 21.7% | 20.4% | -1.3% |
| Tufts University | 25.5% | 19.8% | -5.7% |
| Georgetown | 18.8% | 18.2% | -0.6% |
| U Penn | 16.9% | 16.8% | -0.1% |
| U Chicago | 27.9% | 13.1% | -14.8% |
| Brown | 13.7% | 12.0% | -1.7% |
| Johns Hopkins | 25.4% | 9.8% | -15.6% |
| Cal Tech | 17.4% | 9.3% | -8.1% |
| Carnegie Mellon | 37.9% | 9.2% | -28.7% |
| Boston College | 26.2% | 9.2% | -17.0% |
| Dartmouth | 13.5% | 6.9% | -6.6% |
| Columbia | 10.0% | 5.7% | -4.3% |
| MIT | 11.9% | 5.6% | -6.3% |
| Duke | 22.4% | 5.2% | -17.2% |
| Yale | 8.6% | 3.2% | -5.4% |
| Stanford | 9.5% | 2.1% | -7.4% |
| Princeton | 9.9% | 0.0% | -9.9% |
| Harvard | 7.9% | 0.0% | -7.9% |
Data source: usnews.com, collegeboard.com
Some notes:
Why these schools? They happen to be the Top 50 National Universities according to US News. We wanted a sampling of the most popular schools that students might be curious about. Keep in mind there are about 2,500 four-year colleges in the US.
The last column takes the transfer admissions rate and subtracts the freshman admissions rate. A positive percentage means the transfer admissions rate is higher than the freshman admissions rate (i.e., all other things equal, it was easier to get in as a transfer than a freshman).
As with all statistics, take them with a grain of salt. The numbers change each year, and, if you can make a strong case for transferring, your odds will be much better than what you see here (and, of course, the opposite is true too).
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