The Phenomena of Transferring Colleges

There comes a time when many college students find they will have to transfer colleges – either because they’re leaving a community college with an Associate’s degree heading for a university for their Bachelor’s, or perhaps they have a Bachelor’s and are going to pursue a Master’s or even go for their Doctorate and have found a better school that is not theirs, or you may be in a four or two year university in your second or third semester and have finally figured out that this is just not the right college for you.

College Transfers

Transferring colleges has always been tough, but recently, we’ve found that getting into a new college has been a bit easier…especially if we’re leaving a community college to transfer into a four year university.  More now than ever, you should visit your transfer centers and ask about transfer admission guarantees (TAG), or articulation agreements that your school might have with four year universities.

You may not know this, but many private universities have begun to open their eyes and focus more on community college students attempting to transfer to their schools and allowing them into their institutions. USC, NYU, Baylor, Texas A&M, even MIT and CalTech are all beginning to pay more attention to the budding plethora of transferring students that community colleges have to offer.

Four Year Colleges

In this day and age, going to a four year college can be near impossible with the small amount of grants and super high tuition that students would have to scramble to either get loans or tiny scholarships for. But with college scholarships booming and more money being poured into government grant programs, a lot of people with Associate’s Degrees are realizing that it’s easier now than ever to get into a four year university.

And this means that the great private institutions across America are starting to field more people from the field of transfer applicants, because they realize that bright young Americans these days aren’t just going to come from four year universities, but from community colleges and other places where they didn’t normally look.

And this is great news for all of us!  To continue reading on the subject, visit USA Today

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