Trading Places: A Portrait of Yale’s Transfer Program

"To most Yalies, you can transfer a meal swipe, or at most, a residential college. Perhaps because so few transfer out, they often say things like, “Oh, I didn’t know Yale had a transfer program,” or “you’re the first transfer student I’ve met here.”

This September, 20 or 25 new transfer students will receive room keys, submit immunization records and wave handkerchiefs embroidered with the year “2021” alongside 1,550 or so freshmen — Yale’s largest intake ever, owing to the newly constructed Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin Colleges." …

http://features.yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/02/17/trading-places-a-portrait-of-yales-transfer-program/