<p>dman,
It’s difficult to transfer on purpose…they don’t want to have applicants using the easier school as a back door into the more desirable school. For example, at a school like Illinois, they don’t want students using the Ag school or School of Education as a back door in to business or engineering. So it’s difficult on purpose.</p>
<p>And, of course, the desirable schools are filled from the beginning, and there is room for transfers in only in the same number of students that drop out of the desired program.</p>