What Are They Looking For...

nspeds
Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:15:13 +0000

nspeds, I have heard that colleges look for compelling reason to transfer over and over again and I really dont buy it

Stanford has published the schools that the most transfers came from and for the years I looked at one was havard (4) and the other year was northwestern(7).



I disagree for numerous reasons (edit: no pun intended).

1) Students coming from Harvard and Yale may actually have good reasons.
2) I never argued that reasons are the sole basis for admissions, of course there are other factors that can hold just as much weight. For example, if there is a Harvard applicant with good reasons and a CC applicant with good reasons, the former will likely be accepted.
3) Specifically regarding Yale, the application is structured in such a way as to make it conducive to explicating your reasons.

Those are three just off the top of my head. If I recall correctly, 1/3 of the 27 applicants accepted into Yale were community college applicants.