Financial Aid for Transfer Students

mjobtx
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:14:55 +0000

My experience here in Texas is that other than need based aid, grants and scholarships are much harder to come by for transfer students. The focus of funds is on the incoming Freshman. Some schools do have transfer scholarships and they are usually easily identifiable on the school’s websites. Most are for scholastic achievement like PTK membership, etc. Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX also has an automatic 1/2 tuition scholarship for transfer students with a 3.7gpa or higher and those students compete for 10 full tuition scholarships. I have found SMU to be unusal though in the amount of funds available to transfer students and those funds are only available to the best scholars.