<p>Ok so I saw the rates for transfer schools made in some post on this site and know that they were wrong. ex. Brown University 3% and etc.</p>
<p>I know its much higher for Columbia its like 8-9% for Upenn its above 10% like 12-13%</p>
<p>I know this from the U.S. News College Rankings. 2007 edition</p>
<p>Look if someone has the official U.S. News Rankings book the 2007 edition then look for school like Columbia and Upenn and go to their transfer sections and look it lists the number of applicants and the number accecpted. You will see that the rates are much higher than what CC people predict</p>
<p>Can someone just clarify this and check it up I think I'm pretty certain.</p>
<p>the stats were not "predicted." most of the posted stats come from the admission/rejection letters or the common data set (which CB uses).</p>
<p>Also, most stats used in articles regarding transfer admission were from 2005. Wall street journal's transfer article used 2005 stats and i wouldnt be surprised if US news used them.</p>
<p>If you read the first post of that thread you'll see that those rates were taken from the College Board. Those are supposed to be from the Common Data Set. The USNews Ranking uses data that is two years old. College Board uses data that is from last year. If you have suggestions to change posted rates and can link them to recent data, feel free to post them in that thread. It is editable and a community project.</p>
<p>transferman,
This year the % of students actually accepted at some schools, like Dartmouth, Stanford, Harvard, etc were much lower than normal because of the higher than expected yield % of incoming freshman that those colleges experienced. For instance, Stanford accepted only 20/1440 transfer students- far less than the typical 5%. The reason as stated by the admissions office was they many more accepted Freshman said "yes" to Stanford than they had anticipated. These figures come straight from the admissions office- they were not made up. Admissions officers can only project how many freshman will decide to matriculate at a college- when there are more freshman they they had counted on coming in, then there is less room for transfers. It's all about the # of heads and beds. That is why transfer students at most colleges don't learn of their acceptances or rejections until after May 1, which is the date all freshman nationwide commit to matriculating at a particular college.</p>