A study was conducted to compare the academic progress of two-year college transfers, senior college transfers, and continuing sophomores and juniors (native students) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as measured by mean grade point average (GPA), academic status, graduation, and continued enrollment through two years after transfer. Study findings, based on data on 1,445 community college transfers, 1,201 transfers from senior colleges, and 1,331 native students, included the following: (1) in 1986, 43% of the transfer students and 80% of the native students were continuing on clear or probationary status or had graduated from UIC; (2) 6% of the community college transfers and 10% of the senior college transfers graduated within two years after entering UIC; (3) the community college transfers entered UIC with a mean pre-transfer GPA of 3.87, compared to mean GPA's of 3.67 for the senior college transfers and 3.66 for the native students; (4) both two- and four-year college transfers experienced reductions in GPA after their first term at UIC, and the community college group never recovered their pre-transfer GPA; and (5) by the end of the second year after transfer, 29% of the community college transfers and 22% of the senior college transfers had been dropped or left while on probation. (AJL)