I wonder if that's a biased sample. Top % of students likely transfer less often than bottom %. Therefore transfer pool often has students from lower %. And s

I wonder if that's a biased sample. Top % of students likely transfer less often than bottom %. Therefore transfer pool often has students from lower %. And statistically the applicants are worse than from initial application. However that doesn't mean ones ods are less doing a transfer. It might be better given the transfer peers overall worse applications. (This is all conjecture. I have no actual stats.)