A parody of the famous Christmas Carol to help set the season.  Like the holiday celebrated by millions and millions of people, student transfer has its surprises and is celebrated by millions of people this year. 

It is a cumulative song, in that each verse is built on the previous verses. It culminates on the twelfth day, when the gifts are 12 Drummers Drumming, 11 Pipers Piping, 10 Lords a-Leaping, 9 Ladies Dancing, 8 Maids a-Milking, 7 Swans a-Swimming, 6 Geese a-Laying, 5 Gold Rings, 4 Colly Birds (often given as "Calling Birds"), 3 French Hens, 2 Turtle Doves, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

It has been one of the most popular and most-recorded Christmas songs throughout the past century.  Now, let's try singing the CollegeTransfer.Net version.

The Higher Education Act, which originated in 1965, focuses most of the legislative emphasis on government policy focused toward student access and affordibility. Which is another way of saying financial aid. But, we are finally approaching a new era. Congress is now considering the importance of student completion, success and graduation. This has elevated college transfer as an issue that the country's higher education institutions should face to support lower cost and faster completion rates. Transfer disclosure is one way of helping students plan course work prior to transfer. The responsibility to disclose transferability prior to taking a course is a consumer friendly way of helping reduce the transfer friction or tax added when a student attempts to get course credit at a destination school. Transferablity does not mean course credits count toward a degree. It may just mean you will get the credit as electives. Which may still require additional course work, if your credit load and requirements Read More »

College transfer can be a challenge.  It can be complex and expensive.  On the other hand, college transfer can save you thousands of dollars when planning and patience are applied.  This is why we added a new ebook to our site that gives you a look at the top fifty colleges and universities in the country and shows how you can graduate from some of the finest schools in the country by following  transfer agreements they publish.  If you want to sign up for it, just click here.

A couple of months ago, CollegeTransfer.Net hit a milestone quietly.  That is, we reached 600,000 course equivalencies in the Course Atlas.  This may seem insignificant, but it is a reflection that our long term strategy to help institutions publish their transfer information including course equivalencies is working.  Along the way, CollegeTransfer.Net has also amassed the largest collection of Transfer Articulation Agreements.

College is expensive.  It is an investment.  Our US and State governments fund many grant opportunities.  Don't just rely on student loans - even if you are an adult working full-time.  Check out the updated US Federal Financial Aid website: http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

In the recent Reauthorization of Higher Education Act (HEOA 2008), Congress and the President increased PELL Grants, extended the funding for part-time students and will allow students to now extend over eighteen full-time equivalent semesters.   Check out what college aid is available, are you elgible and how to apply for it...

One of our long term objectives has been to highlight information that is useful to prospective college transfer students before they transfer. Transfer information is all over the place. In fact, it can be found on thousands of websites and publications making it very diffcult to compare. In July 2008, AcademyOne launched our Transfer Profiles on CollegeTransfer.Net. Our goal was to establish the Transfer 500 bringing together, in one place, a virtual information profile on the nation's transfer friending institutions. Our Transfer Profile is a list of institutions which self identify themselves. They post the information in our Transfer Profile to help prospective transfer students help themselves...
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It took Congress over eight years to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965. This landmark bill was signed by President Bush in August 2008. It is a massive piece of legislation that was designed to help move the political discussion in an election year, rather than challenge the status quo and debate the hundreds of programs and funding measures left on the table without any authorization. This will mean there will be a great deal of emphasis on negotiated rule making for the next administrations. College Transfer is impacted by the HEOA 2008, a short name given to the act passed by both houses and signed into law. Read More »

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