<p>Transfers</a> a hot commodity for colleges </p>
<p>"As more students show a desire to transfer, schools are focusing attention on them as never before. In the hyper-competitive world of college admissions, transfer students have become the latest sought-after commodity, viewed as increasingly important to keeping seats filled and diversifying the student body through their varied backgrounds."</p>
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<p>Do these statistics take high school joint-enrollment into account? I did joint-enrollment in high school and matriculated at another school, so I may be part of this 60% figure.</p>
<p>I know Georgia Tech has a [formal</a> program](<a href=“Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Undergraduate Admission”>Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Undergraduate Admission) for accepting in-state transfers at certain colleges and universities. I don’t know the exact number, but I believe a fair number of students transferred from other public universities in the state.</p>
<p>Another thing I don’t know is how many students at our school are like Ms. Bongiorno in that they intend to transfer and graduate elsewhere. I met a student in my freshman year who plainly stated that he had no intention of graduating at Georgia Tech. In his opinion, our school was only good enough to boost his transfer chances to Stanford or Carnegie Mellon; our degrees themselves weren’t good enough.</p>
<p>As you can no doubt guess, I was quite offended by that, even though it was nothing personal. For whatever reason, he never transferred out. Maybe he grew to love the institute or maybe he didn’t succeed in transferring. On the other hand, I took a class with a girl who despite being a very glib talker, never once mentioned her desire to transfer out of Tech. She seemed happy and was involved on campus, so it surprised me when I found out that she had successfully transferred to Yale.</p>
<p>^ I think the “as an undergraduate” excludes dual-enrollment students. It would of course include people who start at a community college and finish at a four-year college, a fairly common pattern of studying.</p>
<p>I hear it’s even harder to transfer into Stanford or CMU than it is to get accepted as a freshman. Good luck with that.</p>
<p>I can see having a plan to move from community college to a 4-year school, however.</p>
<p>And it’s good that colleges are formulating plans to deal with transfers who for whatever reason decide one college or major isn’t right for them and they need to transfer. Transfers were always sort of stepchildren.</p>
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<p>OK, that makes sense.</p>
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<p>Stanford itself [acknowledges[/url</a>] that “transfer admission is considerably more competitive than freshman admission.” For all I know, the student I met may have decided not to transfer out because he liked studying and living here. Based on our [url=<a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/apps/factbook/?page=94]retention”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/apps/factbook/?page=94]retention</a> rates](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Transfer Applicants : Stanford University), the overwhelming majority of Georgia Tech students who come here stay here. What I cannot tease out from those figures is the percentage of students who come here but don’t want to stay.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that in urban areas with a high concentration of open-admission community colleges, it is not unusual for students to be concurrently enrolled in more than one school in order to meet graduation requirements. Many students will opt to take a class at another community college if the class at their primary campus is full.</p>
<p>Personally, I think this is a good trend but many school still see transfer students as auxiliary. The application process at most colleges is geared towards freshman and only a few schools have really robust admissions systems for transfers. I remember when I was applying to transfer from my community college to private schools, for example, the Common App would ask me for my “class rank” at community college. No community college I know keeps a list of “class ranks”! It also asked for both my “weighed” and “unweighed” GPA… clearly something not applicable to transfer applications. In addition, the common app required “my” community college counselor to fill in a form evaluating me. This was a bad requirement b/c many students at community college do not have just one counselor that they are assigned to, the way that high school students do. To make matters worse, I had to have “my counselor” fill in this nonsensical form at every school I had attended, no easy feat when the other school I had attended was not in driving distance! Clearly the process was designed by someone who had little knowledge of the transfer experience.</p>
<p>In the end, I transferred to a UC school. Amongst the reasons that I did so was that the UC admissions process was much more transfer-friendly and that made me feel like the school had a better support system for students like me.</p>
<p>Does that mean that more students are unsatisfied with their university, so they transfer?</p>
<p>a student on another thread asked about finaid for transfers at the better lacs. Does anyone have a link to that info?</p>
<p>I’m trying to transfer to Stanford from a community college. We’ll see how their 3% acceptance works for me!</p>
<p>I would think that an increasing nmbr of transfer students would only make a better college product all around. Colleges would know that they do not have a captive market but one that will stay if things are running fine and leave if not. Keeps colleges on their toes.</p>
<p>During a visit yesterday to one college, the dean of admissions said as much when he said that college students ‘vote with their feet’ (he was touting this college’s higher than avg 4 yr grad rate.)</p>
<p>Not to burst any bubbles, but I don’t think that the article really holds true for the highly selective colleges that many on this forum are aiming to transfer to. “Keeping seats filled” is spot on, but with many more applicants than spots, transfers are in no way a “sought-after commodity” for these colleges. JMO</p>
<p>^ True that the article is not about the sort of colleges that usually inspire “What Are My Chances?” threads here on CC.</p>
<p>I am one of those “common pattern” students. I just left community college for my local University, but my dream is to attend MIT. I know, i know…I find myself asking the “what are my chances” question all the time. </p>
<p>Well I have done hours and hours and hours of research for schools with undergraduate neuroscience prorgrams (they are few are far between). MIT and Duke U seem to be at the top of the list; but after reading their requirements for transfer (esspecially MIT’s requirements) it is obvious that transfer students are not too valued. Duke doesn’t offer scholarships or financial aid to transfer students, and MIT only accepted 24 transfer students last year. Its tough, and It seems as though its only going to get tougher. </p>
<p>What the heck am i supposed to do?</p>
<p>I love how this is a “hot topic” with only 12 replies.</p>
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<p>4 years ago I looked at NS programs for D1, I found that most schools offered NS/brain/cog sci programs.</p>
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<p>Duke mainly offers need-based FA, to both fr and transfer applicants:</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University Admissions: Transfer Students](<a href=“http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/apply_transfer.html]Duke”>http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/apply_transfer.html)</p>
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<p>It’s true that top schools don’t need as many transfer applicants, but it’s also true that there are far, far fewer good transfer applicants (without troubled academic or personal histories, etc) than good freshman applicants.</p>
<p>Our goal was for our son to get into a top school with need blind financial aid so he’d graduate with little or no debt. It didn’t really work out that way - he has a few options but I’d like to pursue transferring to a “2nd tier” school like William and Mary or Lehigh looking for a full ride. Is that even possible for a transfer student?</p>
<p>Generally, transfer students don’t get the best financial aid. There are some schools with more generous financial aid packets, but on the whole, you won’t find any free rides.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if I can transfer after one year from a CSU to a UC?
Im going to start at SJSU as a freshman this fall, but I wnt to transfer to a UC or a different CSU</p>
<p>Res1025, please post your question on a new thread on the UC Transfer subforum.</p>
<p>Closing this thread as it’s not really the place for personal questions about transferring.</p>