Colleges with space for freshmen & transfer applications

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Check out this list: <a href=“http://www.nacac.com/survey/results.cfm[/url]”>http://www.nacac.com/survey/results.cfm&lt;/a&gt;

Colleges with transfer and freshmen space include California’s Mills College, University of Arizona, Alabama A&M, University of Alabama-Huntsville, University of Colordo-Denver, Florida Gulf Coast University,
Goucher College (MD), Alma College (Michigan), Drew University (N.J.), College of New Rochelle (NY), Fordham, and University of Pittsburg. Financial aid and housing is available at some.

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<p>Smith College is on the list!</p>

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<p>Smith doesn’t have room for the freshmen class, and low for transfers.</p>

<p>– Just saw that Hofstra University (NY) and RIT (NY) has space for the freshmen class.</p>

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<p>Timely post, Northstarmom! There are some pretty good schools on that list…</p>

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<p>Thanks for posting, NSM - just sent the link to a friend!</p>

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<p>Posting to bring this up again.</p>

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<p>what schools do you all recommend for psychology that’s on this list?</p>

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<p>I’m fairly certain that Mills has a strong psychology program. It was my #1 school all year and the campus is fantastic. Not to mention a diverse student body–well, besides the fact that it’s a all female (the grad program is mixed so there were a lot of men on campus, actually). Good luck finding a school!</p>

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<p>thanks, icabod05!</p>

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<p>Why would anyone think Smith is on the list?</p>

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<p>Smith IS on the NACAC list as having a limited number of openings for transfers.</p>

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<p>I thought Smith was competititve, I would ahve thought places would have been filled already.</p>

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<p>There’s a New Rochelle college? </p>

<p>(maybe just a bump to help those who may still need this)</p>

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<p>Thank you for posting this Northstarmom. Extremely helpful info!</p>

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<p>Dima-
Its called the College of New Rochelle. Its down near the shore. Used to be all female. Don’t know if it still is.</p>

<p><em>edit</em> - It was known for its nursing program. Pretty small school, if I recall. Less than a thousand undergrads.</p>

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<p>Just surprised that Goucher, Fordham,Johnson & Wales and R.I.T. still have spaces available for freshmen?</p>

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<p>Dang. Evansville is still on the list with all those big scholarships they offer? I suppose all the snail mail stalking they do might be backfiring on them for those not in the highly selective theatre department … The available space could also come from around 12% of the student body studying abroad at any given time.</p>

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<p>I was surprised about Fordham since they waitlist a lot of students and some at my S’s school complained of not getting in or being waitlisted with stats well within their reach. I wonder if it has to do with thier notoriously bad financial aid. On their own student site, my S read that quite a few kids got in, but couldn’t afford it with only 10.000 or less given to them. Maybe a lot of acceptees had to turn them down or decided to go elsewhere.</p>

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<p>yea, i cant believe i see fordham on here too.</p>

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<p>Smith and Mount Holyoke are always pretty difficult for transfer admissions.</p>

<p>In Smith’s case, their financial aid for transfers is usually (but not always!) quite low in comparison to what peer institutions offer, so many transfers who get in end up not going, freeing up some more spots.</p>

<p>I was speaking with a counselor from Mount Holyoke a few months ago who said they actually might take a year off from transfer admissions soon because of the overcrowding problems up there. Yikes. They only took 66 last time, but the overcrowding is getting worse and worse due to them accepting too many freshman, and it’s really causing problems. I have a friend who’s there now and keeps talking about it and how even housing is getting challenging.</p>

<p>Scary for me, since I’m looking at both as transfer options. Eep!</p>

<p>Of course, then you have schools like Williams, which typically offers about 5 transfer spots a year. 9 last time – it’s a population boom!</p>