Do transfer students have it easier than high school senors?

<p>I've heard a few times that it's easier for transfer students to get accepted to a school than the high school seniors that are applying. Is there any truth to this?</p>

<p>somewhat. Transfers sometimes have the chance to transfer in the spring which gives competition only among the transfer students as opposed tp the fall where its competition among hs and transfer</p>

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<p>Aren’t transfer applicants considered before the hs applicants?</p>

<p>Freshmen compete for thousands of spots.
Transfers compete for a hundred or so in most cases.
Transfer pools are also qualified on a different level from freshmen due to the fact that the applicants have had more time to become competitive.
I’d say that competition for transfer spots is tougher than freshman competition.</p>

<p>I think high school senors would have it easier because affirmative action helps out Latino applicants.</p>

<p>^Wow. What makes you think AA isn’t in play for transfers?</p>

<p>Colleges vary in their selectivity for transfers. </p>

<p>For the more selective colleges, acceptance rates for transfers tend to be lower than for fr applicants because relatively few students leave these colleges, so few spaces are available for transfers to fill.</p>

<p>If you go to the CB College Search function, for almost every school, they give the admission rate for fr applicants and the numbers of applicants and accepted transfer students, you can do the math and see which has the higher rate.</p>

<p>In some cases no and some cases yes. Where I applied to thousands of people applied but only 200 get picked. High school work is a lot easier than college level work, so if you do well in college chances are that it is easier to get admitted. Also, statistics show that transfers to another school usually perform better than incoming students.</p>

<p>It depends. I know that it’s easier to transfer into one of the state schools where I live than it is to apply as a freshman.</p>

<p>But some schools have much fewer spots available for transfer applicants than they do for freshman and you’re competition is (generally) a bit more stiff.</p>

<p>It varies substantially. </p>

<p>As Entomom indicated, you can look at the CB Site which typically lists acceptance rates for HS and transfers (you have to calculate the transfer rate, but usually the raw numbers are provided). The TransferBook site also lists transfer acceptance rates for some schools, although the data are not as current. </p>

<p>For example, based on the available CB figures (I assume they are for this past year), the school to which my D transferred had a HS acceptance rate of 31% this past year. The transfer acceptance rate this past year was 11%. It has been 6-7% in past years. The school’s freshman retention rate was 98%, which likely accounts for the low acceptance transfer rate. Interestingly, there are a number of elite schools where the transfer rate admission rate is higher than the HS admission rate. At Cornell, the HS admission rate was 18% and the transfer admission rate was 22%. Freshman retention rate was 96%.</p>

<p>@entomom: It was just a harmless pun on “senors.” (Check the thread title.)</p>

<p>A good rule of thumb is that for privates, transfer acceptance rates are lower and for publics the transfer acceptance rate is higher. </p>

<p>For example, Princeton’s freshman rate is something like 5-10% and they accept no transfers. JHU accepts 18% for freshman but is <10% for transfers. </p>

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<p>Look at Cornell’s rates by school. A few years ago, Engineering was about 5% and CAS was about 10%.</p>

<p>True, programs within an institution can differ substantially. So which school at Cornell has the really high transfer acceptance rate to balance out the lows rates at the those schools so that the average is 22%?</p>

<p>iit kinda varies depending on which school it is. vanderbilt is a good example of a school thats easier as a transfer, its somewhere around 15 percent for freshman and like 40 percent for transfers. the UC schools are usually considerably easier to be admitted as a transfer as well. </p>

<p>cornell is a terrible example, for many reasons. if you look at the transfer data by college, CALS and ILR in particular have a really high transfer rate and CAS is low, ~10 percent. also, i think the guaranteed transfers skew the data a bit, making it seem easier than it really is for a transfer, who knows what the true acceptance rate could be excluding the guaranteed transfers</p>

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<p>Thank goodness OB! I did miss the title and I do like your pun. I just run into so much of that type of thinking on CC, but was surprised to hear it from you. BTW, enjoy New Haven!</p>

<p>Thanks, entomom! That’s really nice of you to remember.</p>