A study was conducted in Florida to compare the academic progress of community college transfer students with those students who had completed their first 2 years of study at the University of Florida, the University of South Florida Technological University. A data file was initiated for the fall 1976 term of all students who had transferred to one of these three State Universities with an associate degree (N=2,459) and a similar group of native students who had entered one of the universities approximately 2 years earlier and had completed their lower division work (N=1,133). Data were collected on each subsequent quarter for the next several years to produce a longitudinal database. Study findings included the following: (1) transfer students had slightly lower term and cumulative grade point averages (GPA's) than native students; (2) the greatest difference in fall 1976 GPA's was found among social science majors, with the native students having a 2.91 GPA and the transfer students earning a 2.31 GPA; (3) by fall 1977, it appeared that almost twice the percentage of transfer students as native students were no longer attending school; (4) transfer students were suspended at the end of a term at a rate three times higher than that of native students; (5) as of spring 1978, 38% of the native students and 21.9% of the transfer students in the original sample had been granted a baccalaureate degree; and (6) native students took more lower division courses than transfer students. A short report on community college student performance in Florida universities covering the years 1979 through 1982 is included. (AYC)