Category: Specific College

  • Transfer Student Numbers on the Rise at Vanderbilt University

    Transfer Student Numbers on the Rise at Vanderbilt University

    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 […]

  • 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 […]