<p>I want to know what schools go above and beyond for their transfers. What schools are really welcoming/have established programs to help transfers become a part of the college community?</p>
<p>Either from your experience or what you’ve heard?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>State colleges are usually like that. They accomidate transfers very well from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>BC’s transfer orientation was fantastic.</p>
<p>From what i’ve heard Cal is fairly good to their transfer students, but i don’t know from experience.</p>
<p>BC? As in Boston College? Can you please tell me more about that, because I’m VERY interested in that college.</p>
<p>penn and georgetown have great programs as well.</p>
<p>Whenever I corresponded with or talked on the phone with American University they were so enthusiastic it was scary-refreshing. More refreshing than scary though :)</p>
<p>what about wash u, u chicago, brown, and gw?</p>
<p>“State colleges are usually like that. They accomidate transfers very well from what I’ve heard.”</p>
<p>Why is that? I’m just wondering.</p>
<p>UC system mostly, but basically state-funded public universities.</p>
<p>Yes, Boston College. 
They have a separate orientation for transfer students and went out of their way to make sure we were treated as such, and not as freshman. Transfer students at BC receive the same housing (you get put with people of your own class year) and receive the same financial aid consideration as regular students. They have a club for just transfer students as well, to help orient them to the area and the school.</p>
<p>Is BC really that transfer friendly? I ask this because I heard how cut-throat the school is when it comes to transferring, unlike American, which as someone here posted “scary-refreshing.”</p>
<p>Haha, AU is not good to transfers. Most end up having to live on this satellite campus and have trouble meeting the odd core that AU has. One benefit is that we have a very large number of transfer students for such a small school because so many students actually transfer out of here.</p>
<p>What I know about the transfer experience at UChicago–</p>
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<li><p>About 30 or so students end up transferring in a year. (More are accepted than decide to attend), and a very large portion of those that decide to transfer come in from well-known schools. (I think we get a few every year from St. John’s, a few from small rural LAC’s like Colby, a few from large, established state schools like UIowa). PM menloparkmom-- her son transferred from USC to Chicago this year-- and rainmanoutofsnow-- a transfer from BU.</p></li>
<li><p>Transfer students participate in O-Week, but have their own sessions. O-Week for freshmen is fantastic; I imagine the transfer orientation is similarly good.</p></li>
<li><p>Most transfer students are lodged in Stony Island, a university-owned apartment building. Students have a love/hate relationship with Stony-- some are looking for apartment-style living, some want to relive a dorm experience. It might be possible for transfers to live in dorm-style setups… I’m not sure. It seems like transfers are bottom of the barrel for housing assignments, though, as the housing system is crunched as is. Hopefully that will change with the new dorm opening up in the next few years.</p></li>
<li><p>The transfer students I know here are very, very, very happy they transferred here. These students knew what they were getting themselves into, decided another school wasn’t worth coming back to, and have established their niche here.</p></li>
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<p>Unalove are you saying they usually only accept transfers from well known schools?</p>
<p>what makes georgetown good for transfers?</p>
<p>Cornell has been fantastic for transfers. Due to the large number of transfers, cornell can afford to have tons of programs to orient the new transfer students. Although due to the building of new dorms and the like, not all of the transfer students are housed together, but i’m living with mainly transfer students and through many orientation programs and groups i’ve been able to meet transfers living all over the campus. As a biology transfer, my biology advisor has went above and beyond to create programs specifically for bio transfer students and there are tons of services that I utilize that have helped the transfer process go as smoothly as possible. Transferring here was the best decision i’ve made, and I’m so happy here! But saying that, I’m sure there are many other schools that also are very accepting of transfer students, but I just say Cornell due to my own personal experience.</p>
<p>Anyone know about Maryland, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pitt, Rice?</p>
<p>Dancergurl, hows the weather? You may be happy to be there, but you are probably cold as hell too! haha</p>
<p>Maryland is very very open to transfer.</p>