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From the newly published information on transferring by the ABA it looks like only a few schools in the T14 take students from tier 3's.

I'm wondering if this is because the others (1) don't take students from tier 3 schools OR if it is (2) because they would only take the top couple of students from these schools and these students either don't apply or choose to stay when accepted.

I'm mainly interested in hearing about Columbia, Chicago, NYU, Penn, Cornell, UVA, and Duke
----because according to the reports Berkley, Michigan, Northwestern, and GT take from tier 3 and I'm assuming HYS doesn't give them a look.

Looking for anecdotes if nothing else. Thanks!

butlerraider1 wrote:From the newly published information on transferring by the ABA it looks like only a few schools in the T14 take students from tier 3's.

I'm wondering if this is because the others (1) don't take students from tier 3 schools OR if it is (2) because they would only take the top couple of students from these schools and these students either don't apply or choose to stay when accepted.

I'm mainly interested in hearing about Columbia, Chicago, NYU, Penn, Cornell, UVA, and Duke
----because according to the reports Berkley, Michigan, Northwestern, and GT take from tier 3 and I'm assuming HYS doesn't give them a look.

Looking for anecdotes if nothing else. Thanks!

Well, these 4 took, on average fewer than 8 transfers total, so that is probably a very large part of the reason why they didn't have any TTT transfers.

BVest wrote:

butlerraider1 wrote:From the newly published information on transferring by the ABA it looks like only a few schools in the T14 take students from tier 3's.

I'm wondering if this is because the others (1) don't take students from tier 3 schools OR if it is (2) because they would only take the top couple of students from these schools and these students either don't apply or choose to stay when accepted.

I'm mainly interested in hearing about Columbia, Chicago, NYU, Penn, Cornell, UVA, and Duke
----because according to the reports Berkley, Michigan, Northwestern, and GT take from tier 3 and I'm assuming HYS doesn't give them a look.

Looking for anecdotes if nothing else. Thanks!

Well, these 4 took, on average fewer than 8 transfers total, so that is probably a very large part of the reason why they didn't have any TTT transfers.

Yeah, makes sense.
I guess I'm wondering if the #1 student at a tier 3 has any shot besides the schools I listed, or if the name of the school bars them from even getting a look. I know transferring is a black box and nobody really has the answer to this but just thought I would ask based on people's personal experiences.


ETA: Are there any TTT --> CCN/Penn or Cornell out there (want to stay in northeast)?

There was one TTT xfer to CLS. Top 1%.

CounselorNebby wrote:There was one TTT xfer to CLS. Top 1%.

Cool. Thanks

Anecdotally I know someone who went TTT to duke

fa1493 wrote:Anecdotally I know someone who went TTT to duke

Good to know

Same with Berkeley. I think they were 1%.

GULC takes a lot of TTT and TTTT's

In 2009, a student from my 1L tier 3 (now tier 2) transferred to HLS. He has a 4.0/4.0, but so did a few others in my class. SLS also took a tier 3 transfer that year I don't have first-hand knowledge about that student though). Berkeley took at least one tier 4 transfer that year. Anything's possible. Don't put too much weight on the ABA disclosures--you only have 1 year of data there.

XxSpyKEx wrote:In 2009, a student from my 1L tier 3 (now tier 2) transferred to HLS. He has a 4.0/4.0, but so did a few others in my class.

Wow, this gives me hope. Thank you and

XxSpyKEx wrote: Don't put too much weight on the ABA disclosures--you only have 1 year of data there.

this is a great point.

hartfordhockaloogies wrote:GULC takes a lot of TTT and TTTT's

seems like you knew this but just to throw gas on the flame I can confirm GULC takes em'.

InRemington wrote:

hartfordhockaloogies wrote:GULC takes a lot of TTT and TTTT's

seems like you knew this but just to throw gas on the flame I can confirm GULC takes em'.

Yes. Aware that GULC takes them haha thanks though guys (seriously).