<p>All the transfer supplements ask whether a student has applied to the university before, and what the prior admissions decision was. Is this simply for data collection. Do they keep your freshman app material (essays and test scores) on file, and use them again? Does applying somewhere before, getting rejected there, and reapplying have any impact (other than seeming persistent and interested)?</p>
<p>Whether they keep your old application packet varies with the school. When D1 reapplied to schools, only 1 kept old materials, and only if you informed them the spring when you got your decision that you were planning to apply later as a transfer. </p>
<p>Some schools, likely just the most selective, don’t particularly like candidates who reapply after denial:</p>
<p>[Some</a> see second shot in transfers | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2006/11/08/some-see-second-shot-in-transfers/]Some”>Some see second shot in transfers - Yale Daily News)</p>
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<p>@entomon: Makes sense. I noticed Michigan encouraged applicants who were waitlisted, and then denied to reapply as a junior transfer. If you don’t mind me asking, what was the one school that kept old materials? I know some keep test scores, but not of the entire application.</p>
<p>Brown was the school that said they’d keep materials, however that was several years ago so I don’t know if they still have that policy.</p>
<p>I’m reapplying to Brown, but I don’t recall receiving any notification of keeping materials (I wasn’t thinking of transferring at the time of not getting admitted).</p>
<p>D1 didn’t know about the policy at the time and they don’t notify beforehand. Since she didn’t decide to apply for a transfer until the winter, she ended up sending everything in again.</p>
<p>When reapplying to Washington University in St. Louis, they emailed me saying that my application fee was waived because I had applied the year before and they still had my application on file.</p>