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 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number Applied | 2,031 | 2,293 | 2,746 |
| Number Admitted | 190 | 77 | 118 |
| Percent Admitted | 9.4% | 3.4% | 4.3% |
| Number Enrolling | 134 | 57 | 81 |
| Percent Enrolling | 70.5% | 74% | 68.6% |
| SAT EBRW (Middle 50% of Admits)* | 720-760 | 720-770 | 730-770 |
| SAT Math (Middle 50% of Admits)* | 740-800 | 713-790 | 750-790 |
| ACT Composite (Middle 50% of Admits) | 32-35 | 33-35 | 33-35 |
| Average College GPA of admits | 3.89 | 3.98 | 4.00 |
In the last four years the Office of Admission has admitted transfer students from 137 different colleges and universities worldwide. Here is a sample of the colleges that sent new transfers to Brown.
- Amherst College
- Bard College
- Barnard College
- Bates College
- Berkeley City College
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Bowdoin College
- Brandeis University
- Brigham Young University
- Bristol Community College
- Bronxville High School
- Bryant University
- Bryn Mawr College
- Bucknell University
- Bunker Hill Community College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Central Texas College
- City College of San Francisco
- Claremont McKenna College
- Coastal Carolina Community College
- Colby College
- College of William and Mary
- Colorado College
- Columbia University
- Community College of Baltimore County
- Community College of Rhode Island
- Cornell University
- Cosumnes River College
- CUNY Laguardia Community College
- Dartmouth College
- De Anza College
- Deep Springs College
- Defense Language Institute
- Dickinson College
- Duke University
- Ecole Polytechnique
- Emory University
- Franklin Marshall College
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Georgia Inst Technology
- Grinnell College
- Hamilton College
- Harvey Mudd College
- Haverford College
- Hutchinson Community College
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Inst Tech Autonomo De Mexico
- Ithaca College
- Jacksonville University
- James Madison University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kenyon College
- Lafayette College
- Lehigh University
- Loyola Marymount University
- Loyola University Chicago
- Marist College
- Massasoit Community College
- McGill University
- Michigan State University
- Middlebury College
- Minerva Schools at KGI
- National Taiwan University
- Navarro College
- New Mexico Military Institute
- New York University
- Northampton County Community College
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Oberlin College
- Oxford College
- Palomar College
- Pasadena City College
- Pennsylvania State University
- Pikes Peak Community College
- Pomona College
- Princeton University
- Providence College
- Queens University
- Rhode Island College
- Rice University
- Rutgers University
- Sciences PO-Paris Institute PO Stud
- Simons Rock College of Bard
- Skidmore College
- Southern Methodist University
- SUNY Binghamton
- Swarthmore College
- Syracuse University
- Trinity College of Connecticut
- Trinity University
- Tufts University
- Tulane University
- U.S. Airforce Academy
- Univ Arkansas Fayetteville
- Univ Calif Berkeley
- Univ Calif Davis
- Univ Calif Los Angeles
- Univ Calif San Diego
- Univ Calif Santa Barbara
- University of Chicago
- Univ Colorado Boulder
- University of Florida
- Univ Maryland College Park
- Univ Massachusetts Amherst
- Univ Michigan Ann Arbor
- Univ North Carolina Chapel Hl
- Univ North Carolina Charlotte
- Univ Notre Dame
- University of Oregon
- Univ Pennsylvania
- Univ of Pittsburgh
- Univ of the Redlands
- Univ Richmond
- Univ Southern California
- University of Toronto Canada
- University of Rhode Island
- University of St. Andrews
- University of Virginia
- Valley Forge Military Academy & College
- Vanderbilt University
- Vassar College
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ
- Wake Forest University
- Waseda University
- Washington Lee University
- Washington University
- Wellesley College
- Wesleyan University
- West Virginia Univ Morgantown
- Wheaton College Massachusetts
- Whitman College
- Williams College
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute