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Three Strikes and You're NOT Out: Tips from a Student Who Transferred TWICE
Sally_Rubenstone
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A couple decades ago, when I co-authored The Transfer Student’s Guide to Changing Colleges, I discovered that admission officials and professors love transfers, often finding them to be among the most enthusiastic and focused students on campus. This, of course, is no surprise because transfer applicants usually have a stronger sense of their needs and goals than high school seniors do and can learn from an initial college-choice mistake.
But not every transfer student gets it right, although many who consider a second transfer will worry that this might impede their long-range plans or at least look bad to admission committees. And indeed, the admission folks are wary of “serial transfers” and so they do scrutinize applications extra carefully when they realize that a transfer candidate has already made a move before.
Kara Tippins is a two-time transfer (from Kenyon to Vanderbilt and now Georgetown) who recently shared her story with the Huffington Post. In “The Top Ten Takeaways from a Two-Time Transfer,” she describes her journey from a small-town liberal arts college in Ohio to a university in the nation’s capital. She also offers a summary of the lessons she learned along the way to her third college. See https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-top-ten-takeaways-from-a-two-time-transfer_us_59ed3aa1e4b034105edd4fed?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
6 replies But not every transfer student gets it right, although many who consider a second transfer will worry that this might impede their long-range plans or at least look bad to admission committees. And indeed, the admission folks are wary of “serial transfers” and so they do scrutinize applications extra carefully when they realize that a transfer candidate has already made a move before.
Kara Tippins is a two-time transfer (from Kenyon to Vanderbilt and now Georgetown) who recently shared her story with the Huffington Post. In “The Top Ten Takeaways from a Two-Time Transfer,” she describes her journey from a small-town liberal arts college in Ohio to a university in the nation’s capital. She also offers a summary of the lessons she learned along the way to her third college. See https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-top-ten-takeaways-from-a-two-time-transfer_us_59ed3aa1e4b034105edd4fed?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
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Replies to: Three Strikes and You're NOT Out: Tips from a Student Who Transferred TWICE
Not all students transfer because the initial or college was a mistake. Not all students who transfer a second time because the second college was a mistake.
I think it's also important to note that students who successfully do this mostly likely have excellent academic credentials. A sub-3.0 student from Kenyon most likely is not going to be able to transfer to Vanderbilt and then Georgetown :-)
Lol are we going to pretend like Kenyon isn't a top liberal arts college?