Transfer

<p>I am an international in NY. I would like to transfer there. Do they have financial aid to international transfers? How difficult is it to get in as a transfer?</p>

<p>no they don't and I would advise not wasting your time. I don't mean to sound rude, but according to College Board, Middlebury took 1 transfer student out of 250 applicants last year.</p>

<p>That makes Middlebury the most difficult college to transfer to in the U.S.</p>

<p>Is that really true? I saw that stat and I'm looking at places to transfer perhaps. Is Middlebury off the list?</p>

<p>well its your decision...look at Collegeboard.com and check out middlebury transfer section on admissions...that's what it says, so I've crossed it off my list.</p>

<p>At most schools, you can assume that the admissions standards for transfers are roughly comparable to those for regular students. But this is apparently not true at many selective LACs. </p>

<p>These schools are small to begin with, and they have unusually low attrition rates, so there just aren't many openings. Furthermore, there seems to be high demand for the few available slots from students who would like to leave larger universities. So the acceptance rates for transfers can be much lower than those for new students. </p>

<p>For example, the statistics for [url=<a href="http://www.williams.edu/admission/apply_transfer.php%5DWilliams%5B/url"&gt;http://www.williams.edu/admission/apply_transfer.php]Williams[/url&lt;/a&gt;] show only a 7.4 % transfer acceptance rate over the 2002-2005 period -- much lower than the regular acceptance rate, which is around 20%. I've heard that the same discrepancy occurs at other top LACs, such as Middlebury or Bowdoin.</p>

<p>It may well be easier to transfer into a larger university -- even an Ivy -- than into a selective LAC.</p>