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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLIV, Issue 9
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Junior Lucy Montgomery transferred from Scripps College her first year.

Connections and new beginnings: Transferring to Whitman

Emma Foley, Feature Writer September 30, 2019

One-third of college students will transfer schools at least once. I remember reading this statistic while parsing through the Google results for “how to know if you should transfer,” a phrase I hesitantly...

Transfer Athletes Find Their Home

Jordan O’Roy, Staff Reporter February 22, 2018

Whitman has 13 Varsity Sports, 254 varsity athletes, and of those athletes only eight are transfer students. Whitman’s transfer admission rate is an astonishing 35 percent, as students across the globe...

Finding new home makes for difficult transition

Martina Pansze September 25, 2014
“I don’t think people realize that it’s a huge deal to decide to transfer from another school," she said.

Cities make or break college campuses

Audrey Kelly September 25, 2014
"[It] proves that many liberal arts schools look the same on paper, but they have very different energies."

Fewer transfer students admitted for Spring 2011, Jan Start group relatively small

Shelly Le January 27, 2011
A especially large first-year class for the fall of 2010 meant fewer transfer students were accepted for spring 2011 admission, making the January-Start class especially small.
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