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Specific College/University

Transfer Requirements: Cornell University Case Study

April 18, 2011

Meeting requirements for the transfer application is crucial; missing even one item could disqualify your application from being considered. Unfortunately, the requirements are not always straightforward. This post examines the process of determining course requirements for transfer applicants using Cornell University as a case study. Specifically, let’s say you want to apply to transfer as [...]

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University of Michigan: Transfer Spotlight

February 4, 2011

When people refer to the University of Michigan (U-M), they almost always mean the Ann Arbor campus. From here on, “U-M” denotes the main (Ann Arbor) campus. Note that though U-M-Dearborn and U-M-Flint are also part of the University of Michigan system, transfer students from those schools to U-M are considered new transfers. In this [...]

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Transfer Friendly College Spotlight: Emory University

December 19, 2010

Emory University is a four-year private institution in Atlanta, GA with a total of 5,268 undergraduates. Within the larger university is Emory College of Arts and Sciences, which accounts for most of the undergrads. The college offers majors typical of a liberal arts school with degrees ranging from a BS in Computer Science to a [...]

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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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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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