For purposes of the IAI who is considered a “transfer student?
The IAI agreements apply to “transfer students” not “native students,” even though a native student may complete courses at other institutions. A “native student” is a degree-seeking student who enters a college or university as a first-time freshman (subsequent to the summer following high school graduation). Thus, a fall-term freshman who earned college credit at another institution prior to or during the summer immediately after high school graduation is still considered a native student at the institution in which he/she enrolls in the fall. Likewise, a student who enrolls in another institution as an occasional student while also enrolling in the initial college/university or as a non-degree seeking “summer guest” continues to be a native student at the home institution. A degree-seeking student who discontinues enrollment in one institution, enrolls as a degree-seeking student in another, and then re-enrolls as a degree-seeking student in the original institution is considered “r
