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Transfer Students

Apply for Admission

To apply to Hope, please submit the following items:

• Complete the or
• Official final high school transcript (submitted by your high school or through )
• Official college transcript(s) (from all previous colleges)

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Scholarships and Financial Aid 

Scholarships

• Your Hope Admissions application will serve as your application for scholarships
• Hope offers Transfer Scholarships that range from $5,000-$16,000

Need Based Aid

• Apply for need based aid by submitting your
• Hope College’s Federal Code is 002273

Financial Aid Award Letter

• You will receive a financial aid package after you have been accepted for admission.

Test Scores

• Test scores are optional. However, they can help when awarding a merit scholarship.

Scholarship information 

Costs and financial aid 

Transfer Credits

Transferology

• is a user-friendly tool with up-to-date information about how other schools’ coursework transfers to Hope College.
  • Create an account in Transferology.
  • Select any courses you have taken or plan to take before transferring to Hope.
  • See a personalized report of courses approved to transfer
    • Match - courses approved to transfer
    • Miss - courses not approved to transfer
    • Maybe - courses not yet reviewed for transfer 
• Request more information from inside your Transferology account to start the evaluation process for any courses in the Maybe column.
• Your official transcripts are the final step in receiving ÁùºÍºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ credit.

Learn more about the credit transfer process 

Housing

Living on campus is one of the most exciting parts of being a student at Hope, and you have several options available!

• We work individually with you to find the best fit, typically placing you with a student your own age and cohort. Housing options at Hope include:
  • Residence halls
  • Cottages
  • Apartments
• Hope requires students to live on campus through their Junior year. (Unless commuting from home)  

Learn more about residential life at Hope College  

Meet your Reps

Barbara Miller

Associate Director of Admissions

Barbara Miller started working at Hope in July 1989 as the campus visit coordinator, but for the past 16 years, she has worked as an admissions representative. She’s worked with students from a variety of states, and currently works with international and transfer students. In addition to working with students and families, she coordinates many of Hope’s visit and event programing with the Visit and Events team, along with other administrative duties.

Peggy Gorno

Senior Assistant Director of Admissions

Peggy Gorno was an admissions counselor at Hope College from July 1988 through 1992. She was responsible for on-campus visits and visitation days. She then joined Grand Rapids Community College as an assistant director of financial aid and later the director of the Enrollment Center. Peggy came back to Hope Admissions to work with transfer students in 2018. Her passion is to create a vibrant transfer community at Hope as well as to streamline the process for students as they consider Hope to further their education.