Transfer Acceptance Rates at US News Top 50 – 2012

Students Entering Fall 2012*

US News rank	College	Transfer rate	Transfers applied	Transfers accepted
2	Princeton University	N/A	N/A	N/A
1	Harvard University	1.04%	1,448	15
3	Yale University	2.68%	970	26
4	Columbia University	6.22%	2,365	147
5.1	Stanford University	2.25%	1,512	34
5.2	University of Chicago	2.22%	991	22
7.1	Duke University	10.68%	337	36
7.2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5.51%	454	25
7.3	University of Pennsylvania	9.40%	2,096	197
10.1	California Institute of Technology	2.34%	214	5
10.2	Dartmouth College	3.75%	799	30
12.1	Johns Hopkins University	8.31%	1,071	89
12.2	Northwestern University	12.33%	1,435	177
14.1	Brown University	5.60%	1,750	98
14.2	Washington University in St. Louis	5.83%	1,389	81
16	Cornell University	20.59%	3,579	737
17	Vanderbilt University	26.14%	1,385	362
18.1	Rice University	15.04%	585	88
18.2	University of Notre Dame	36.94%	509	188
20.1	Emory University	32.00%	1,203	385
20.2	Georgetown University	13.67%	2,063	282
20.3	University of California-Berkeley	21.56%	15,754	3,397
23.1	Carnegie Mellon University	10.29%	768	79
23.2	University of California-Los Angeles	27.96%	18,923	5290
23.3	University of Southern California	33.39%	8,281	2,765
23.4	University of Virginia	36.88%	2,427	895
23.5	Wake Forest University	22.01%	359	79
28.1	Tufts University	23.40%	829	194
28.2	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	34.73%	3,844	1,335
30	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	42.82%	3,169	1,357
31	Boston College	10.90%	2,019	220
32.1	Brandeis University	34.85%	571	199
32.2	College of William and Mary	43.92%	929	408
32.3	New York University	24.02%	6,067	1,457
32.4	University of Rochester	29.22%	1,037	303
36	Georgia Institute of Technology	40.48%	1,823	738
37.1	Case Western Reserve University	23.57%	403	95
37.2	Pennsylvania State University-University Park	41.70%	1,993	831
39.1	University of California-Davis	58.22%	13,180	7,673
39.2	University of California-San Diego	44.99%	15,269	6,869
41.1	Boston University	28.60%	3,829	1,095
41.2	Lehigh University	35.96%	470	169
41.3	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	59.73%	452	270
41.4	University of California-Santa Barbara	49.89%	13,369	6,670
41.5	University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	49.81%	4,403	2,193
41.6	University of Wisconsin-Madison	45.91%	4,367	2,005
47.1	University of Miami	58.90%	2,645	1,558
47.2	Yeshiva University	69.61%	102	71
49.1	Northeastern University	47.19%	3,064	1,446
49.2	University of California-Irvine	42.68%	15,415	6,579
49.3	University of Florida	41.01%	5,996	2,459

Data sources: usnews.com, collegeboard.org, school websites

*Some notes:

Why Fall 2012? US News releases its Top 50 every September, based on information from the previous fall. So these transfer stats for students transferring and starting school Fall 2012 is for the US News Top 50 rankings released September 2013.

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.

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).