<p>“…I’m not sure about Cornell; possibly its quasi-public “contract colleges” are under such an obligation…”</p>
<p>As I understand it, the contract colleges are indeed under such obligation, and the transfer #s are predominantly the contract colleges. I don’t like the stats non-disclosure either, by all schools. </p>
<p>But to me, the poster child for stats non-disclosure is Columbia University. Its School of General Studies enrolls 1,600 students with no stats available. They boast about how GS is integrated with the university, same profs, nearly all interchangeable classes where anyone at columbia can enroll, so where are the GS stats. They have an undergrad nursing program with 155 students, where are the stats I dont know. Students at its affiliated colleges all take classes at Columbia, if you’re one who insists on glomming stats together glom those too. Also, it’s one of the few engineering colleges where the 3-2 program is actually used, so some people are enrolling in SEAS from small LACs, also with no stats made available to third parties. I don’t know that these people are counted as transfer applicants, my guess is no. When SEAS stats used to be weaker they did not report SEAS stats in US News submission.</p>