<p>barrons hit the nail on the head. There is no reason to expend additional taxpayer dollars to inform the small percentage of in-state applicants exactly why their clearly marginal HS record didn’t meet the high bar to matriculate at their state flagship when they have a clear path for meeting the transfer admission bar in order to graduate from their state flagship. When did we get to this place where freshman year over all others conveys such extraordinary added value? (As a Texan, this is one of my beefs with the Fisher case. Recently interviewed, Ms. Fisher claimed her damages were loss of networking and access to the Texas Exes alumni network, which would have enhanced her job search–yet she was guaranteed the right to spend sophomore-senior years on the Forty Acres and obtain that precious sheepskin had she only been willing to spend her first year (and make a 3.2) at a branch campus.)</p>