Private Colleges Courting Community College Transfers
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010According to USA Today, community college transfer students are being courted by selective colleges such as USC and NYU.
A wide variety of private institutions, including highly competitive schools, are aggressively recruiting students from two-year colleges, to diversify their enrollment. Community college graduates tend to be strong students, according to some admissions officers, because they are generally more mature and understand what it takes to be successful. Further, many community college graduates could have attended a selective four-year school, but elected to attend a two-year program for economic reasons.
In addition to bringing greater diversity to the student body, some four-year colleges are thought to be seeking out community college students because they need the tuition dollars.
Read more at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-02-18-IHE-transfer-students-18_ST_N.htm
