Freshman Scholarships vs. Transfer Scholarships?

cptofthehouse
Wed, 16 May 2012 14:22:31 +0000

It really depends upon the school. Usually, most usually, schools focus on the freshman class in terms of any aid or merit money they have. Even those schools that guarantee to meet full need, often except transfer students.

However, schools that have agreements or relationships with CCs, may have some awards specifically for them. As a transfer student, the test scores do not count as heavily; it’s the grades in the college courses and the directed interest that count.

As an aside, it is worthwhile to get some test prep and to practice to get those scores up. It can make a difference in grad school money, professional school and a lot of other things. It can be a real impediment to test poorly. My friend’s DD who is a super achiever fell into this category, and finally addressed her issues when she realized she could not pass the bar with them. It took a year of direct work on the problem, but she has improved a lot and is now an attorney who wishes she had done this years ago it. It cost her many opportunities, scholarships and, yes, admissions to the top colleges and law schools. It wasn’t until there was no way around it that she bit the bullet and went directly to addressing her slowness on tests.