Transferring from Yale to Wharton/ MIT/ Harvard

I'm assuming with good grades from Yale, you'd have as good of a shot as anyone to transfer basically anywhere else you'd want to. With that being said, let me drop some wisdom on you, what you study/learn in school is rarely that relevant in the real world. Yes if you went to Wharton a few of the finance accounting classes might be relevant to your first job in banking, but to be honest, that really doesn't matter at all. At the end of the day, it's basic accounting and arithmetic that you can teach yourself. As far as enjoying what you're learning, to me that's a grass is always greener argument. While some businesses classes are interesting, you're still going to have to slog through a fair amount of so-so classes at Wharton or MIT.

By going to Yale, you check that box that you're smart and well connected and not to be overly prestige focused, but Yale is a stronger brand than Wharton. Harvard is comparable and MIT is probably slightly weaker unless you're going with a very heavy quant focused major.

The bigger question I would be asking if I were you is, do you like the people at Yale and have you liked your experience so far? If the answer is no, by all means look to transfer. If you're mainly looking to transfer because you don't love econ/math and are optimizing for classes, I'd give some thought to focusing on taking interesting classes at Yale and using the extra time to pursue learning/knowledge outside of the classroom. Leverage Yale to become a smart and interesting person rather than someone who took multiple advanced supply chain operations classes at Wharton, haha.

I'm obviously being facetious, but a word of advice, if I could do it all over again I would have 1. Optimized for the best brand name school I could get into (You've checked this off better than I did) 2. Majored in something that looks good that I could get a high GPA in (also a check for you) 3. With the rest of my classes, taken a variety of classes, literature, philosophy, etc. You'd be surprised at how much you might enjoy some of the classes even if they're not that relevant. Especially if you can take them from a great professor. 4. Supplement my degree with outside learning, maybe it's beginning a startup with some peers, given that the world is virtual now, look for a remote internship, work as an on campus barista, learn an instrument, chase after girls, etc. Perhaps similar to you, I didn't think I loved the liberal arts education because I was seeking out businesses oriented classes, which didn't exist. I took a lot of Econ, which I frankly hated. I should have given that up immediately, been an English major, and then worked on my interview prep questions on the side so I could crush banking interviews. In hindsight, I could have transferred, but after a few years working, the people I've met from Wharton, Ross, and the other undergrad B-Schools in my opinion learned a lot of vocational knowledge which gave them about a 2 week advantage on the job before everyone else caught up. Plus, if you're ever thinking about going bak to B-School, it makes that education ever more redundant.

With all that being said, I do understand not loving classes and as someone who is currently in B-School, I do enjoy businesses-y classes more than the liberal arts ones I took; however, I think I could have had a much better undergrad experience if I had the advice I just gave you. Give it some thought, I don't think you can go wrong either way, and good luck with the decision.

Edit: Saw your 2nd post about all the stuff you're doing. That all sounds great, why not continue on with all of that and de-emphasize classes? Get really close with that professor and maybe create your own class for a semester where you research whatever you want? NGO? Sounds awesome, try to expand that out. Sounds like you're a pretty well-rounded kid. Would you be willing to give up the capacity to do all of those things to focus on quant classes at Wharton?