Category: News
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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…
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Why the Community College Transfer Process is So Complicated
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?
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…