British Colombia's Student Transitions Project (STP) is challenging long-held myths about the movement of students through the education system in that province and may become a catalyst for re-examining commonly held ideas about students' transition to post-secondary education across the country. The STP is a collaborative effort among B.C.'s Ministries of Education and Advanced Education and the province's public post-secondary institutions. It began in 2005 and has produced a number of reports on student transitions in the province. As a result of this initial work, the authors are beginning to build a much better understanding of the patterns of student movement over time, and this understanding is helping to challenge some long-held beliefs about student transitions. In this article, the authors present several misconceptions about student transitions and expose the reality based on complex data. (Contains 1 table, 3 figures and 9 notes.)