<p>I had a meeting with my guidence counselor(college, not high school) and they told me that I should be applying as a transfer not a freshman. I'm like- no, you don't understand- I'm in high school and I've ALREADY APPLIED AS A FRESHMAN! They're like, well then alot of your credits won't count. </p>
<p>So, here's the info: I've been taking a few classes at our community college(which is a four year college, but it's like a community college) and by the time I attend a <em>real college</em> in the fall I could possibly have 25 credits.</p>
<p>I quickly started reviewing the web pages of some of these schools and so far, most say they'll only take 12 credits, one said 15. So, do I just ignore this and deal with it when it comes time, or what? </p>
<p>I would rather not randomly throw away class credits, but I also don't want to apply as a transfer(isn't it harder?) </p>
<p>Apply as a freshman. Many kids have quite a few college classes before graduating HS. I don't think colleges really consider you a transfer student. A transfer student label can be disastrous. My S graduated HS in 2000. A year after graduation he took some classes at a California CC and earned 8 credits. He was accepted into San Francisco State as a transfer student and was assigned the absolutely WORST registration time. All the classes he really needed were filled by the time he got to register.</p>
<p>I would agree with applying as a freshman. Don't most bigger academic/merit scholarships get awarded to freshman and not transfer students? Also, I'd do some checking to make sure what classes will and won't transfer. My son had 15 credit hours at our local junior college through a dual enrollment program that was recently started at our high school. Only 4 credit hours transferred. He said this was a mixed blessing in disguise. Good that he in turn doesn't have to meet the foreign language requirement in college (the hours that transferred), and good that it forced him to retake Calculus (didn't transfer, and he learned a whole lot more), but bad in that his science classes didn't transfer and that he had to take freshman level science that he already knew.</p>
<p>Yes I'm enrolled in high school so I guess I'm a freshman.</p>
<p>I'm just confused as to why these guidence counselor(S) would be telling us(high school kids at this college) to apply as a transfer....? It doesn't make sense!</p>
<p>My d. had 66 credits, about half from community colleges, and half from four year schools, when she applied as a first-year. (not counting APs) And she threw all the credits away, by choice (she did place into some higher level classes, though).</p>