[chrisk]

My understanding was that the admissions folks would only consider an undergrad transfer if that person would have been a Stanford admit as a frosh.  That always seemed silly to me because it did not account for the concept of "improvement."

The difference between a 16-17 yr old and a say, 19-20 yr old is pretty darn clear in my mind.  If a high school jr/sr was just out of admit range for Stanford, but went to another school with proven academics, and performed well there for a couple of years, why wouldn't he/she be given consideration as a transfer?  It seems to me that that academic performance at the college level always tops high school performance.

I hope whatever new undergraduate transfer policies are put in place will address this.  There should be a way to reward young folks who try even harder the second time around. (And if their extra-curricular activities happen to include high-level athletic performance, well, so much the better).

As Taylor explained it in his press conference, the academics for transfers is based on the class of the transfer.
A frosh transfer, most of the available data will be the high school transcript. As more college data is accoumulated, the high school transcript becomes lees important. For post-bacc, high school would have minimal imprortance.

[chrisk]

My understanding was that the admissions folks would only consider an undergrad transfer if that person would have been a Stanford admit as a frosh.  That always seemed silly to me because it did not account for the concept of "improvement."

The difference between a 16-17 yr old and a say, 19-20 yr old is pretty darn clear in my mind.  If a high school jr/sr was just out of admit range for Stanford, but went to another school with proven academics, and performed well there for a couple of years, why wouldn't he/she be given consideration as a transfer?  It seems to me that that academic performance at the college level always tops high school performance.

I hope whatever new undergraduate transfer policies are put in place will address this.  There should be a way to reward young folks who try even harder the second time around. (And if their extra-curricular activities happen to include high-level athletic performance, well, so much the better).

As Taylor explained it in his press conference, the academics for transfers is based on the class of the transfer.
A frosh transfer, most of the available data will be the high school transcript. As more college data is accoumulated, the high school transcript becomes lees important. For post-bacc, high school would have minimal imprortance.