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Transfers in the News

Transfer Admissions Rates for US News 2012 Added

October 9, 2011

We just added the recently released Fall 2010 transfer admissions numbers for some of the top schools in the US (the “2012″ Top 50 National Universities according to US News). Check it out by clicking here, or by hovering over the “Stats” tab at the top of the page and clicking on the first option [...]

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Fall 2009 College Transfer Acceptance Rates Added

September 19, 2010

We just added the recently released Fall 09 transfer admissions numbers 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 by hovering over the “Stats” tab at the top of the page and clicking on the first option in [...]

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Transfer Program at Harvard College Resumes

August 27, 2010

If you look at our table of transfer acceptance rates, you’ll see that Harvard’s rate says “0.0%.” That’s because the transfer program ceased to even exist, but now Harvard is accepting transfer applicants again. An article in the Harvard Gazette shares the news. Here are the highlights for prospective transfer applicants: Harvard’s generous financial aid [...]

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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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Why the Community College Transfer Process is So Complicated

September 13, 2009

More than 2.7 million people are in a community college in California. Plenty of these are students seeking just two-year degrees, but did you know only about 100,000 of those community college students transfer to a four-year school each year? That’s only 3.7% of all the students in community college! It’s tough to estimate, but [...]

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Transfer Students Apply to College, Too. How Come We Don’t Help Them?

September 6, 2009

Stephen J. Handel explores this question in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. While doing research for a book on transfer admissions, he discovered that… there’s practically nothing out there for transfers! He searched high and low, both online and print resources, but still came up empty handed. This is despite the fact [...]

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College Students Transferring Back to Their Home States in Record Numbers

August 23, 2009

Really interesting article in the New Jersey Star Ledger on students transferring back to colleges in their home state for the savings: Savings Draw Collegians to Transfer Back to NJ It’s unusual to see transfer students get any press, let alone anything so positive. Although the title of the article would lead you to believe [...]

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