Hannah Fleckner was in the midst of a premed track at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland when she realized that what she really wanted to do was teach. But the idea of transferring to a new school was scary. She had to start over, figure out the policies at each school, and she realized she wouldn’t get credit for many of the classes she had already taken.
It wasn’t just the fear.
“The transfer process is frustrating,” said Fleckner, who is among the more than a million students who transfer colleges each year. “It’s self-inflicted pain.”
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