<p>Does anyone know some central place that would have admission rates for transfer students to various schools? I'm having trouble digging them up by going to individual school's websites? I can get admission rates for freshmen applicants to all the schools I am interested in from Princeton Review, but I want to compare those to transfer admission rates. I am trying to counsel a young friend who is trying to decide btwn. staying at a college she knows is a misfit and trying to transfer to a better school after a year, vs. withdrawing immediately so that she can apply to other schools for 2006 as a freshman. Her dad wants her to stay where she is for a year, and thinks she'll be able to transfer into any of the other schools that accepted her the first go-around. She wants to withdraw because she basically recognizes that she would benefit from a gap year. But she would like to use lower admit rates for transfers as ammunition to convince her dad that staying where she is for a year will reduce her options.</p>
<p>when you go to the individual schools' websites, in their search box, enter "common data set". if you are able to pull up the schools common data set, it should include info re transfer stats, though net necessarily as detailed as the stats on freshmen.</p>
<p>The premium online edition of USNews.com is a good resource for transfer admission rates. Click on the link to any school, and in the page that comes up, you'll see a column on the right hand side that lists (among other things) transfer info. There is no pat answer to the questions your friend is raising. Some schools are transfer-friendly, some are not. And the percentages of transfer students accepted to a given school vary from year to year. A little research will show which schools accept a reasonable percentage of transfers. But there are other issues that drive the decision: whether on-campus housing is available for transfers and how credits will transfer are just a few of them. Anecdotally, my D transferred as a sophomore to a univeristy that waitlisted her when she applied there during the first round. And I don't think that any student can count on being accepted to a school that accepted him/her in the first round.</p>
<p>to piggyback on what wjb said some schools only offer limited (if any)FA to transfer students</p>
<p>Wjb is right - the US news premium edition would be the place to look. The US News Ultimate College Guide is more expensive, but lists every college and has details about transfers.</p>