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I was unable to find this information anywhere on the site. Just out of curiosity, how does the decrease in applications last year and this year affect one's odds of transferring into a T14 school and top schools like Harvard and Stanford? Does it mean they are going to have a bigger transfer class?

Thanks!

...what's your reasoning? I don't see how this would follow from less applicants.

Clearly wrote:...what's your reasoning? I don't see how this would follow from less applicants.

I was thinking because a lot of schools accepted fewer students last year and gave out more scholarship money they would want to make it up with the transfer class. Also since there were less applications, maybe there were not as many highly qualified applicants to choose from and they would want to make it up by getting the top students form other schools.

Class sizes didn't really drop so I don't see it having any effect. Schools can't report the admissions statistics from transfers, so it's not like they will compensate for a lower quality cycle with transfers.

Northwestern is public with their plan to decrease regular admit class size and increase transfer class size. This year's 1L class was the first year of that trend and they've told us it is continuing with this admit class. The dean says that he wants to give scholarships to more transfers, but there is literally zero reason to do that, so it's probably mostly blowing smoke for PR purposes. Transfers are there to pay full tuition, period.

rinkrat19 wrote:Northwestern is public with their plan to decrease regular admit class size and increase transfer class size. This year's 1L class was the first year of that trend and they've told us it is continuing with this admit class. The dean says that he wants to give scholarships to more transfers, but there is literally zero reason to do that, so it's probably mostly blowing smoke for PR purposes. Transfers are there to pay full tuition, period.

where is this from?

lhanvt13 wrote:

rinkrat19 wrote:Northwestern is public with their plan to decrease regular admit class size and increase transfer class size. This year's 1L class was the first year of that trend and they've told us it is continuing with this admit class. The dean says that he wants to give scholarships to more transfers, but there is literally zero reason to do that, so it's probably mostly blowing smoke for PR purposes. Transfers are there to pay full tuition, period.

where is this from?

The dean talking to current students, and this year's 1L class being smaller but there being a crapton of transfer 2Ls. It's common knowledge here.

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JMHO, but I don't think it makes a difference at YHS. It definitely may at other schools. I have definitely heard of quite a few T1 schools who are doing just that - having smaller 1L classes and larger 2L classes (including some scholarships to transfers) to make up the costs because they don't want to sacrifice their stats for rankings.

I think the scholarships to transfers are now bidding wars to get those transfers - because some money (even half tuition of 10 additional transfers) is better than zero money if they all go elsewhere.

But at YHS, they don't need to do this - they already get all the best applicants anyway. I've also heard that more people are throwing transfer apps in at YHS because they figure why not, apps are down everywhere. But these schools are not accepting more transfers than normal.