What do top colleges have against transfer students?

ucbalumnus
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 18:33:50 +0000

northwesty:

On-campus housing limits, load balancing, articulation agreements with CCs. Can be good business for the schools, since transfer students can be managed in a way that produces a lot of additional full payors.

Actually, for public universities, transfer students commonly come from lower SES backgrounds, because many of them had to start at community college to save money, or are non-traditional students who do not have any significant parental money for college (yes, there are veterans with GI Bill money, but there are many non-veterans as well among transfer students). So their financial aid need per year may be greater than those who entered as frosh. However, even if they get more financial aid per year, they will be there fewer years.