Swarthmore's transfer friendliness?

transferstudent2
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:21:56 +0000

This terrific blog on the Swarthmore website is written by a transfer student from a community college:

The Transfer Student.

She posts here from time to time, so maybe she’ll see your questions. Swarthmore definitely gives consideration to community college transfers. The number of transfers is fairly small, so it’s hard to generalize. At one point a few years back, Swat didn’t accept a single transfer and sent everyone their money back. The following year, the admissions dean said that they either had to reserve a reasonable number of slots or just stop offering transfer apps. Since then, they’ve taken fewer freshmen and had a fairy steady, but small, group of transfers each year.

I can’t answer your question about test scores. I didn’t know they were optional for transfers. I don’t know specifically, but I’m sure they would be more than happy to “interview” you as a transfer. Talk to students. Talk to professors. Nobody bites.



That blog looks like a great read; thanks for the link! From skimming it I see that they enrolled 27 transfers in fall 2009… that is a very daunting figure, from what I assume was an applicant pool in the hundreds. I hope that number gets upped a little for next Fall, haha.



The one community college transfer student I knew had never taken the SAT or anything like it. So, yes, you can get in from community college without it.



Hearing something like that is great, thanks.