<p>I noticed on a recent post that someone said its “well known” that most schools treat transfer students as second class citizens when compared to freshman admits. Just wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts on this. Specifically at the ivy’s and other top schools like gtown etc. I don’t really buy it, but maybe it also depends on the size of the transfer pool coming into the school? I dunno. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>who cares?</p>
<p>once you’re in, you’re in.</p>
<p>students are students?</p>
<p>^^ pretty much the way i see it. with regard to financial aid, who really knows?</p>
<p>I think it depends on the school. Some places treat their transfers just as well as freshman, but others may fall short by not allowing transfers to register for classes before they fill up, providing very little or no financial aid, not having many events to welcome transfer students into the community, etc. I haven’t really heard as many complaints from the ivies and top schools. My only personal experience so far is from WashU and UT: WashU has been good to me in every sense mentioned above; UT provided extremely little aid, though I don’t know how other things would have went since I didn’t enroll. NYU is somewhat notorious for treating its students in general like crap, but transfers really have it the worst. Already Stern transfers this year are complaining because all of their classes are full and they can’t even work towards their degree this semester…and FA is awful too.</p>
<p>UCs are awfully generous to transfers.</p>
<p>Umm…second class citizens in what ways? As far as I can tell, people don’t care whether you’re a transfer student or not…at least where I am.
Everyone registers for classes at the same time, eats the same food, live in the same dorms, takes exams at the same time, as the same advisors etc. etc.
Of course I can’t attest to the anecdotes provided by brand…I haven’t been to any of those schools.</p>
<p>I imagine there’d be somewhat less of a feeling that you’ve been in it together with the rest of the class all the way, but I’m pretty sure that kind of disconnect would dissipate after a year or so.</p>
<p>Yale transferred all of my credits from the community college I’m attending and there’s several transfer-only dinners set up already. I was anticipating being treated a little roughly, but so far they’ve made me feel like I’m welcomed and should feel like any other student. A little less so with Colby (less transferred credits, no specific events or offices for me to turn to). I really applaud Yale’s approach to actively getting transfers involved and feel at home.</p>
<p>frrrph, you’re one of the few admitted to Yale AND one of the 3 (it was three, right?) Colby admits? You must be a paragon of pwnage.</p>
<p>yale treats its transfers pretty well. </p>
<p>ive heard hearsay that this isnt so true at Harvard, but take that with salt.</p>
<p>Haha, “paragon of pwnage”, I’ll put that on my grave some day! Thank you for that :)</p>
<p>are you waiting on any more schools frrrph?</p>
<p>mr_sanguine…what did you hear about “How Harvard treats its transfers?”
I’d like to know more…</p>
<p>Nope. Yale it is, and I can’t see myself anywhere else. It’s probably the most quirky and progressive of the fancy-schamncy schools, which is exactly what I was looking for - academic challenge that doesn’t take itself TOO seriously.</p>
<p>HEY JTROWING,
I was the one who said that comment. I was referring only to the administration in terms of the initial financial aid, housing, class scheduling, etc concerns.
But that isn’t something you should be worried about or something that should keep you from transferring!!</p>
<p>I’d say Brown is more quirky and progressive than Yale. Open curriculum, de-emphasis on grades, strong hippie presence, etc.</p>
<p>I think some ppl may feel like second class citizens because they’re latecomers to the social scene on campus.</p>
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<p>Can you elaborate on this? How does NYU mistreat its transfers?</p>
<p>unless you go to a school that has under 2.500 or so students, not a single person is going to know that you transferred there unless you tell them.</p>
<p>that being said, your new experience is what you yourself make of it.</p>
<p>if you think people are going to feed you on a golden plate because you busted your ass getting into the school, think again.</p>
<p>I personally chose Dartmouth over my other choices because it was so transfer friendly. No one even remembered that I was a transfer a year later.</p>