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You are describing a global phenomenon, though Stanford appears to have a particularly bad case of it, but generally speaking, universities everywhere have imposed more restrictions on what students can do.  Some of it is positive, some of it is heavy-handed, and some of it is window dressing only.

Despite all the changes in the environment you've described, Stanford's outbound transfer rate remains very low.  In the last common data set (https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/up...023_v3.pdf) there were 47 inbound transfers.  Because Stanford keeps inbound transfers roughly equal to outbound transfers, that means that there were probably about 50 outbound transfers out of 8049 undergraduates.  In other words, of the ~1600 or so freshmen admitted in any given year, about 3% will transfer to another institution.  If you exclude athletes, it is probably lower.

BC

[BostonCard]

You are describing a global phenomenon, though Stanford appears to have a particularly bad case of it, but generally speaking, universities everywhere have imposed more restrictions on what students can do.  Some of it is positive, some of it is heavy-handed, and some of it is window dressing only.

Despite all the changes in the environment you've described, Stanford's outbound transfer rate remains very low.  In the last common data set (https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/up...023_v3.pdf) there were 47 inbound transfers.  Because Stanford keeps inbound transfers roughly equal to outbound transfers, that means that there were probably about 50 outbound transfers out of 8049 undergraduates.  In other words, of the ~1600 or so freshmen admitted in any given year, about 3% will transfer to another institution.  If you exclude athletes, it is probably lower.

BC