Category: Adjusting

  • Adjusting to Stanford University as a Transfer Student

    Adjusting to Stanford University as a Transfer Student

    In this article, Chris (co-founder of TransferWeb) interviews me (Lan) about my transition to Stanford as a transfer student. These are the main topics I discuss: The academic adjustment The social adjustment Financial aid You’ll see why, in reflecting on my experience trying to adjust to Stanford, I tell other transfer students, “Basically, don’t be […]

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

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

    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. […]

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

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

    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 […]

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

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

    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 […]

  • Are There “Transfer Friendly” Colleges Out There?

    Are There “Transfer Friendly” Colleges Out There?

    Yes, there are “transfer friendly” colleges out there. When deciding on which schools to apply to transfer to, it’s worth taking a few minutes to check out a wide range of the schools you might be interested in applying to (before you start narrowing it down) and to think about two points: (1) the school’s […]