Elite Colleges’s Love For Community College Transfer Students

[sylvan8798]

@Riversider

@sylvan8798 Any high achiever should be able to get merit or aid at some 4 year college so it’s not a bias, just a fact. However, I understand there are exceptions, personal/family issues and bigger hurdles for many but we are taking about majority here. Majority of CC doesn’t qualify for selective colleges.

The number of CC transferring to “selective colleges” is small, not the majority. Your question was

It sure helps these students but what’s in it for these colleges?

as if the students who DO manage to qualify after their community college are so inferior as to provide nothing to the selective college but a headache. Any evidence that transfers from community colleges fail out of elite schools?
You also stated:

It sucks for better students who couldn’t get in and had to go to less selective colleges but helps community college students who would never have qualified on merit as freshman ** to any good college**

You seem to be pivoting around among “good colleges”, “selective colleges”, and “elite colleges”. Or is that only one small set?