<p>Happens all of the time if that student isn’t doing well at college. The most important thing in consideration for Transfer students is the college transcript. If you can’t show that you are doing well at college, it’s a no go regardless of how well you did in high school and what your test scores were.</p>
<p>For highly selective schools, the other important factor is the reason for transfer. Having goals that exceed the capacity of the school where you are is considered a top reason to tranfer. My neighbor got into any number of top schools with a perfect gpa at her first school and because her reason to transfer was that the small school she selected did not have a good program in what she wanted to study and her grades and courses taken there showed quite clearly that she was going to outgrow the school.</p>