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Transferring may not pay off for some students, study suggests

Transferring to a four-year college or flagship university may not be worth it for some students with relatively low GPAs, a recent working paper found.

In Texas, academically marginal transfer students — those with GPAs that barely crossed the threshold for admission — have worse earning potential than students who applied to transfer but were rejected, the paper published by Brown University’s Annenberg Institute found.