First and foremost the Office of College Admission seeks to admit candidates who will be academically successful at Brown. To this end the most important pieces of a transfer application include:
- The college transcript (curriculum and grades)
- Recommendation letters from college faculty
- Standardized test scores (the SAT or ACT)
- The high school transcript
Since Brown’s admission process is a highly selective one, we also want to choose applicants who will add, in some concrete way, to Brown’s undergraduate community. We look for applicants with a long-term commitment to extracurricular activities who we expect will involve themselves in similar pursuits at Brown. We actively try to admit students from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds, to make Brown’s undergraduate student body a thorough reflection of the diversity of identity and perspective that exists in the nation and in the world.
We hope that the following transfer admission statistics will give you a better picture of the type of applicants we admit.
| Transfer Application Cycle | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number Applied | 2,131 | 2,031 | 2,293 |
| Number Admitted (Fall & Spring Combined) | 165 | 190 | 77 |
| Percent Admitted | 7.7% | 9.4% | 3.4% |
| Number Enrolling (Fall & Spring Combined) | 98 | 134 | 57 |
| Percent Enrolling | 59.4% | 70.5% | 74% |
| SAT EBRW (Middle 50% of Admits)* | 700-770 | 720-760 | 720-770 |
| SAT Math (Middle 50% of Admits)* | 680-790 | 740-800 | 713-790 |
| ACT Composite (Middle 50% of Admits) | 32-34 | 32-35 | 33-35 |
| Average College GPA of admits | 3.88 | 3.89 | 3.98 |
* Redesigned SAT test scores reported beginning with 2019
In the last four years the Office of Admission has admitted transfer students from 218 different colleges and universities worldwide. Here is a sample of the colleges that sent new transfers to Brown.
- Amherst College
- Barnard College
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Bowdoin College
- Bryn Mawr College
- Bucknell University
- Carleton College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Case Western Reserve Univ
- Claremont McKenna College
- Colby College
- College of William and Mary
- Colorado College
- Columbia Univ Columbia College
- Community College of Rhode Island
- Connecticut College
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Davidson College
- De Anza College
- Deep Springs College
- Dickinson College
- Duke University
- Emory University
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Georgia Inst Technology
- Hamilton College
- Haverford College
- Lafayette College
- Marquette University
- Mass Institute Technology
- McGill University
- Middlebury College
- New York University
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Oberlin College
- Pomona College
- Rice University
- Salt Lake Cmty College
- Scottsdale Community College
- Scripps College
- Snow College
- Swarthmore College
- Trinity College CT
- Tufts University
- Tulane University
- Univ Calif Berkeley
- Univ Calif Los Angeles
- Univ Calif San Diego
- Univ Calif Santa Barbara
- Univ Colorado Boulder
- Univ Maryland College Park
- Univ Michigan Ann Arbor
- Univ North Carolina Chapel Hl
- Univ Notre Dame
- Univ Pennsylvania
- Univ Pittsburgh Pittsburgh
- Univ Richmond
- Univ Southern California
- University of Virginia
- Vanderbilt University
- Vassar College
- Wake Forest University
- Washington University
- Wellesley College
- Wesleyan University
- Williams College