Community college - transfer

Dustyfeathers
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:28:46 +0000

It’s easy to find out the transfer-in rates for any college (or about 90% of them).

Google and

That should get you to the college’s Common Data Set. Under part D. they should give you their transfer stats. How many applied, how many accepted, how many of the accepted ended up attending. You can also find out in that section of the college asks for a minimum GPA in high school and other important information.

Many schools eagerly accept transfer students and some even offer great FA. Many are as described above, harder to get into as a transfer and the FA is not great. Look at each school’s website for details. Do not be afraid of asking the Admissions officers for more information.

If you’re female, you may want to apply to Mt. Holyoke as it has great FA for Transfer students and it’s quite open about its great transfer-acceptance rate. Barnard doesn’t give great FA for transfer students, in contrast. Read its website carefully.

If you’re interested in co-ed, you may want to look at Southwestern University in Texas, which has good FA for transfer students and it’s close to Austin Tx, a hoppin’ place.

If you’re looking at Ivy or Ivy equivalent, look at Cornell. It has transfer agreements (articulation agreements) with several community colleges and accepts transfers from CCs fairly regularly. California has its own system of moving students up from CCs into UCs. There’s a thread on this website devoted to that. Some of the UCs are Ivy equivalent. If you’re out of state (OOS) for a UC it will be expensive. Most OOS colleges are expensive but not all. U of Maine at Orono has money for transfer students. I’d also check out Columbia U’s GS program. It’s one of CUs four undergraduate colleges (Barnard, Columbia College, their school of engineering, and GS) and it readily accepts students from CCs. The FA isn’t as good as in the other undergraduate colleges. The GS education is exactly the same as with Columbia College.