How Are Transfer Applicants Viewed?

Transfer Students
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<p>This is a question to people who are in admissions office or have been affiliated with such.</p>

<p>How are transfer applicant pool viewed in relation to freshman applicant pool? Since both kinds submit their application at similar times, are they combined into one big applicant pool?</p>

<p>Or are transfer applications separated and read separately by different officers? Or... are they left out until all the freshman applications have been read? How does it work?</p>

<p>This is just purely out of curiosity. My speculation before was that transfer applicants have a separate pool and maybe they are read in more detailed way than freshman applicants since we are much smaller in number. But... if there's no separate process as such, I may be wrong.</p>

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<p>They are completely separate.
The number of freshman admits depends on how large of a class they can accommodate (for example, the class of 2016)
The number of transfer admits they will allow depends on how many people of the previous class did not return the next year (the class of 2015).</p>

<p>For that reason transfer is much much more competitive, admit rates as usually a small fraction of normal admit rates.</p>

<p>Some exceptions include some state schools, like the UC system, where some spots are reserved for in-state community college transfers, and where it can actually be easier to get in as a in-state CC transfer than as a normal admit (I know this applies to Berkeley)</p>

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<p>Haha, alright. I did not expect one sentence would have such a binding effect on the thread.</p>