NYTimes article about transfer students

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<p>College, My Way</p>

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ERIN MADDEN laughs a little self-consciously referring to what she calls “my college tour.” Not the kind that high school students take to look at potential campuses; hers started after she went to college and discovered she didn’t like her choice. She transferred to another, and another, and another, and another, ultimately ending up with five colleges on her transcript when she graduated last year.</p>

<p>It wasn’t collegiate life as she once imagined it. But it wasn’t so unconventional, either. These days, a majority of students take a similarly nomadic path to a degree; about 60 percent of students graduating from college attend more than one institution, a number that has risen steadily over at least the last two decades.</p>

<p>In large part, those numbers reflect the growing population of nontraditional-age students, adults who go to college later in life and often start at a two-year institution. But even traditional students like Ms. Madden — those who head to a four-year college right out of high school — are approaching the experience in a nontraditional way.

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