That's also false. Financial Aid from the government is based off of need. Grants are for anyone who qualify. If you haven't found any that you qualify for, you haven't looked hard enough.
http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/nontraditional.phtml
All colleges extend financial aid to transfer students, they have to. Yes, there are scholarships for straight up freshmen through senior students at the home institution, but there are ALWAYS scholarships specifically designed for transfer students.
They do not take ability to pay into account when determining transfer admissions, that's illegal. They put together your 'aid' package based on your ability to pay. It, in NO way plays into the admissions process outside of that, and any proof you have of that is grounds for a lawsuit.
Elite colleges do accept transfers, find me one that doesn't. Is it hard to transfer into them? Of course, they're e.l.i.t.e., it's hard to get into them any way.
I don't know why you're spreading this misinformation, I assume it's ignorance. Stop.
After looking through your comment history, I now understand why you're spreading this nonsense. You're a young, pissed-off undergraduate student just finding your place in the world. My advice to you, having lived through this stage: We're not all out to get you. Read more, think more, and talk less.
Well, the response I got from the colleges I emailed to ask was "we don't give out scholarships to transfer students." This went for public AND private schools in a variety of states. Often, the public schools that give transfer scholarships only give them to students who are already in state residents. Alternately, the transfer "scholarship" often just reduces some of the out of state surcharge.
" Financial Aid from the government is based off of need. Grants are for anyone who qualify."
Key phrase: anyone who qualifies. When I was 18, I qualified for a $4500 stafford loan and nothing else. If I went to a community college, this dropped to about $800-900/quarter, which wasn't enough to even pay tuition.
Incidentally, the best need based grant you can get from the government is a pell grant. This maxes out at about $5000/year, and you can only get it if you make less than about $10,000/year (and your parents have no income, or you are an independent student).
"They do not take ability to pay into account when determining transfer admissions, that's illegal."
This is only true for public universities. Private can do whatever they want.
"Elite colleges do accept transfers, find me one that doesn't."
Princeton.
"You're a young, pissed-off undergraduate student just finding your place in the world."
I'm not 18 anymore, and haven't been for over half a decade.
All colleges extend financial aid to transfer students, they have to. Yes, there are scholarships for straight up freshmen through senior students at the home institution, but there are ALWAYS scholarships specifically designed for transfer students.
They do not take ability to pay into account when determining transfer admissions, that's illegal. They put together your 'aid' package based on your ability to pay. It, in NO way plays into the admissions process outside of that, and any proof you have of that is grounds for a lawsuit.
Elite colleges do accept transfers, find me one that doesn't. Is it hard to transfer into them? Of course, they're e.l.i.t.e., it's hard to get into them any way.
I don't know why you're spreading this misinformation, I assume it's ignorance. Stop.
After looking through your comment history, I now understand why you're spreading this nonsense. You're a young, pissed-off undergraduate student just finding your place in the world. My advice to you, having lived through this stage: We're not all out to get you. Read more, think more, and talk less.