Do colleges look more favorably upon community college transfer students than of those transferring from 4 year colleges?
Depends on what university you’re applying to.
Some of the colleges I’ll be applying I know are biased (UC’s) but what about Cornell ILR? I see so many community college students trasnfer?
I have no idea. Is Cornell ILR similar to Columbia GS? Then those schools do take many non-traditional student (for it is the pulse if the program’s existence) and community colleges have far more non-traditional students than most of four-year colleges. I wouldn’t call it “biased”, but more like serving their purposes. A lot of top-notch private universities actually select most of students from other very selective four-year colleges (maybe Stanford and top LACs like Amherst being exception) and you hardly see community college students. I wouldn’t call this “biased” either.
Anyways, I digress. I think you just gotta check the purpose and characteristics of the program. And if you checked the stats and if most transfer students at Cornell ILS are from community colleges, then let be it. Unless you can check there actually are more transfer applicants to that school than CC, there’s no way to verify they prefer one or the other. If it indeed is the case that there has been consistently far more applicants from four-year institutions than from two years, then the accepted students are predominantly from CC over past several years, you may carefully say “ye” to your question.
Cornell ILR School has just one major (Industrial and Labor Relations) while Columbia GS is a liberal arts schools for non traditional students. I am more interested in Cornell ILR school. I don’t know if it’s just that more community college students apply than those from 4 year institution or what?
I expect that many of the transfers to ILR come from community colleges in NY. Check the ILR’s website, to see if there are any articulation agreements with the various NY CCs. Starting out at one of those would probably give you the best chance of admission.
I looked and I guess there is not. I think it’s just that cc students are more likely to transfer that from 4 year colleges.
And Cornell in general is famous for Take lots of transfers (also from community college) compared to its peer schools. I reckon CC students know that, thus apply to Cornell more than they apply to peer schools. Also part of Cornell is under SUNY system, so that explains that too. But I doubt they would prefer them “over” 4-year college students, especially if the applicant is from well-regarded university with high gpa.
p.s, I figured out ILS is under SUNY sysrem, although it’s Cornell. State universities often want to make sure there are students from state CCs. State schools are there to serve the state community, and ensuring students from community colleges can get higher education woulì be one of them.
It depends. In some states, there are heavy populations of transfer students at universities that are coming from that states community colleges. California and Illinois are two examples of this. There are large populations of transfers from other universities as well though.
But it doesn’t play a factor into admissions decision right?
Keep in mind that ILR at Cornell is a state funded school so they may be more likely to favor NY CC transfers than the private components of Cornell.
So am I gonna get screwed over if I apply since I’m out of state?
Possibly.
Doesn’t hurt to try though, if $$$ isn’t the factor.
Does anyone have a source where it says that they are more likely to favor ny cc students? Because I called them and they said they have “zero bias towards the type of institution and location in which a transfer is applying from” so I am wondering where people are getting this info?
As several of us have pointed out, this is going to vary significantly from school to school. Some state universities basically have quotas to fill with community college from their state. Other schools have no preference one way or the other.
We were (or at least I was) just talking about “a general case” of a state universities, not specific to Cornell ILS. Cornell ILS has more chance of having certain kinds of community college quota compared to non-SUNY Cornell, but this doesn’t mean that Cornell does have the quota. It might not have the quota, even if they’re SUNY. Also, if they do select certain amount of students from community college, it would most likely be CC students from its own state.
We are just talking about the possibility, and if you want to confirm it, it would be your job to do research. (or even call the admission and ask if they have a quota or not. I don’t know if they’ll give a clear answer, but you can certainly try it.)
Cornell doesn’t as I did call them. Also from Cornell ILR’s wikipedia page it says “however, SUNY ultimately has little control over the academic functions of these colleges — research to be pursued, admission standards, standards for completion of degrees and which academic programs are offered are determined by the statutory college’s (cornell ILR) private institution.”
Good that you finally did the research. 
It all depends on the school you’re transferring to, but I think top universities do look down to community college applicants because the rigor at cc’s are “easier” than the rigor of top universities.
To make your application look better, look into your cc’s honors program/honors classes. I will have 36 honors units (program requires only 15 to graduate with honors), which will show that not only am I taking classes for my major, but I am taking harder versions of them and going more in depth than the regular classes. Honors classes will go a long way when transferring from a cc because it will show that you can handle a harder academic rigor and will be prepared for a top university.
Just my opinion, and it all depends on the school you are transferring to as well.