What do top colleges have against transfer students?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 04:53:14 +0000

Boondocks:

Admitting 13 out of 1300 transfer applicants seems to be more work than it was worth for Princeton

Princeton appears to be looking mostly for non-traditional students in transfer admissions; such students are probably rare among frosh applicants. Stanford appears similar in this respect.

Basically, they are looking for a few top-end students in a pool that they would otherwise be ignoring if they have only frosh admissions.