Top Schools with High Transfer rates

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UC and other public schools are probably skewed because of the in-state acceptances from schools with transfer agreements.

Yeah, Florida has that, too, although the guarantee is just if you get an AA/AS from a CC, you’re guaranteed admission into a Florida University, but not necessarily the one of your choice. If California has a similar policy, that shouldn’t be skewing the transfer rates of the top UC’s - just the bottom ones that are forced to take CC grads that couldn’t make it elsewhere… Unless California has feeder schools - CC’s that transfer directly into a UC?</p>

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I was accepted as a transfer this spring to Vanderbilt, and while researching the school I found those exact same statistics. It should be noted that those came from before the school instituted its new financial aid policy. The 2008 freshman admissions cycle had about a 33% acceptance rate, while this year’s freshman class had one around 19% (what I’ve heard). The new financial aid clearly made the university must more competitive. However, Vandy does look favorably upon transfers, which is why the rate is relatively high.

I think those transfer stats might actually be reflective of this fall. And considering that the regular admit rate was 25% on College board, I’m guessing they averaged the 33% with the 19% (I know that (33 + 19)/2 =/= 25, but the 19% could have possibly been given higher weighting since more people applied in the 19% class - it was Vandy’s largest pool of applicants historically or something…)</p>