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Originally Posted by 33girl
Did it maybe have to do with what he wanted to major in? I know that was a factor getting into branch campus vs. main campus at Penn State.
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Hmm...it might have, and that's a point I didn't consider. He wanted to do some kind of engineering, I don't know what specifically. He was fully accepted and given scholarship money to Auburn for engineering, which I consider similarly competitive to Clemson. Ultimately he's doing a similar transfer program that will have him spend two years at the University of North Georgia, and then if he's successful he gets automatically accepted to transfer to Georgia Tech.
It seems like more schools overall are doing these transfer programs that let them "gamble", so to speak, on students they thought were qualified but not quite enough so to fully accept. Obviously that's not the case for every school, especially those constrained by state laws that limit acceptances, but I'd call it a general trend among state schools with the resources to partner with a second school nearby.