In my D’s, case she did feel that transfers are considered differently than others, although if the school is going to require them to do the whole 4-years, I’m not sure why. We could not get an answer to that question either. Several of the “top- rated” MT programs told her they do not consider transfers at all. She had great results from her transfer auditions but only the BFA she ended up attending let her start as a sophomore. They did have to modify her schedule a bit that sophomore year to accommodate her transfer credits, so she was not in the exact same track as the other students in her very small class. During her time there she was the only transfer student accepted to the program. We don’t know statistics for other programs she was accepted to except for UCLA where she was the only transfer accepted that year and where she would have gone in as a Jr. in their BA program.