Don't understand the 2nd guessing.

ordinarylives
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:47:56 +0000

Ditto to everybody who said kids transfer for lots of reasons. Transferring is also way more common than it was even in the very early 90s, when I started working in higher ed.

I think one thing it should mean for us as parents is that we stop looking askance at a school’s retention rate between freshman and sophomore years when it isn’t as high as a top super-hard-to-get-into-meets-full need school. When kids discover they want to be closer to/farther from home, when kids discover they want a different major, when kids discover they really need to go to cc to save money, when a kid discovers that college sports are brutal and time-consuming and not worth the scholarship money, they move on.