Common statements that "transfer students do not get financial aid"

austinmshauri wrote:
Are there a lot of colleges that offer great merit aid to transfers? I don’t mean the highly selective schools that meet need. I mean colleges that students have reasonable acceptance rates. Why would they be willing to pay for transfers? I thought the purpose of merit aid was to buy freshman stats to help their ratings.

I haven’t checked recently but our state flagship had transfer merit scholarships. I would suspect most if not all would go to community college transfers-- but there were also upper-division scholarships that would become open.