New World Library

For a process that seems like it should be straightforward, students transferring between colleges often run into an alarming number of hurdles. A new book offers a map around many of them.

Jaime Smith, a longtime college adviser, has published A Complete Guide to College Transfer . It’s meant as a how-to for prospective transfer students.

To Smith’s credit, the book is clearly written, logically organized and full of brief case studies to make the concepts concrete. Cases include students with military backgrounds, students with family financial issues, students with diagnosed disabilities who try to go without accommodations and students with spotty high school records. In other words, she doesn’t just default to the student that systems seem to have in mind.

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