Your High School Counselor Held You Back? Maybe It’s Time to Transfer Colleges

March 22, 2010

Don’t think your current college is a good fit? Maybe your high school counselor held you back. A study by Public Agenda, a nonprofit group, asked young adults to reflect on their experiences with their counselors in high school. The title of the study tells you a lot: Can I get a Little Advice Here? [...]

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Transfer Student Numbers on the Rise at Vanderbilt University

February 23, 2010

A really interesting article was published recently on InsideVandy.com, the website of Vanderbilt’s student newspaper. As you’ll note in our transfer admissions statistics, Vanderbilt accepts an unusually large percentage of transfer applicants (55.9%) versus freshmen applicants (25.3%). Apparently, this has resulted in some students there believing “that Vanderbilt has lowered their standards for transfer students [...]

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How to Research Transfer Admission Criteria

January 30, 2010

In our last blog entry, we provided some specific details about transfer requirements at different schools. How did we find all that info? Research! It’s not hard. With just a few minutes of online research you can find out what schools expect from you as a transfer applicant. Say you’re interested in transferring to the [...]

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College Transfer Admission Criteria: What’s a “Good” GPA?

January 11, 2010

This question was inspired by an email we received from a reader. So, what GPA do you need to get if you’re applying to transfer? The obvious answer is “get all As (and maybe even shoot for A pluses) so that the school you apply to will have no excuse to reject you.” Of course, [...]

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The Transfer Application: Is My High School or College Record Given More Weight?

December 12, 2009

Here are the highlights of an email we received: I am currently a freshman at Rutgers University in New Brunswick (NJ). Needless to say, I am unhappy. I am a student with a great amount of potential. In high school, I was one of seven students in my graduating class to have taken six AP [...]

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Should I Even Apply to Transfer to This College? Case Study: Brown University

November 18, 2009

You’re a college freshman or sophomore and you know you want to transfer. Now what? For one thing, you’d better be digging up info on schools that you might want to transfer to. As a transfer applicant, you should “do your research” with the goal of finding the little quirks of the college transfer process. [...]

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Spotlight: College of William & Mary, A Very Transfer Friendly College

November 1, 2009

William & Mary caught our eyes because we interviewed three transfer students there, and they all had great things to say about the support offered to transfers at W&M. We also noticed that W&M has a relatively high transfer acceptance rate; for fall 2009 it was 43.7%, which is higher than their freshmen acceptance rate [...]

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Colleges with Highest Transfer Acceptance Rates

October 17, 2009

Just added numbers for the colleges with the highest transfer acceptance rates. Check it out by clicking here, or by hovering over “Stats” tab at the top of the page. As always, take the numbers with a grain of salt. The numbers change each year, but these should give you a sense of some of [...]

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When to Dump Your College: Transfer Mid-Year or Stick It Out?

September 27, 2009

A reader sent us an email, posing some very good questions about the college transfer journey. We got the thumbs up from her to share her situation with you just in case you’ve been wondering the same thing. I am currently enrolled at Mercyhurst College, in Erie, PA. I am planning on transferring. Mercyhurst is [...]

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Fall 2008 College Transfer Acceptance Rates Added

September 16, 2009

Just added Fall 08 transfer admissions rates for some of the top schools in the US (the Top 50 National Universities according to US News). Check it out by clicking here, or clicking on the “Stats” tab at the top of the page. We wanted to give everyone a sampling of the most popular schools [...]

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