<p>I am an international student and want to apply to the USA.
I want to know, if I'm first year at a university in my country, is there a problem to apply as a freshman for enrollment in 2011?
I know that in Princeton I can't, but what about Harvard, Stanford and Yale? Please respond quickly, as the deadline approaches. Also, if I can apply, will being at university now undermine my chances in any way?
P.S.: I'm sorry that I duplicated the thread, but I posted it in the wrong section the first time.</p>
<p>God, and I thought <em>I</em> was behind schedule…</p>
<p>Have you started your CommonApp profile yet? There’s no way, literally no way to complete your application in two days if you haven’t started it yet. What about transcripts, recommendations, and financial aid applications?</p>
<p>I’ve filled the commonapp and the relevant supplements and almost completed my essays. Transcripts and recommendations are already submitted.
But I recently came across this:
If you have already started a college or university degree program elsewhere, you are not eligible to apply for admission to Princeton.
So I want to know about the other universities I’m interested in. Any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Okay, I can’t help you here. Sorry. Maybe what they meant was that they didn’t accept transfer students? Hmmm…</p>
<p>Hopefully someone else can answer your question.</p>
<p>You would be considered a transfer applicant and would have to follow the procedures for that route to admission.</p>
<p>Are you sure about this? I know that some universities like Columbia allow first-year university students to apply as freshmen. How do you know it’s not the same at Harvard or Stanford?</p>
<p>Criteria for Eligibility as a Transfer Applicant
Once a student has completed one year of full-time study at a single college or university, he or she ordinarily may apply to Harvard College only as a transfer student. [Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Transfer Program](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/eligibility.html]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/eligibility.html)</p>
<p>Students must be enrolled in a degree-seeking program and complete at least one full academic year (two semesters or three quarters of full-time enrollment, excluding summer sessions) of college coursework prior to their anticipated enrollment at Stanford. This requirement excludes AP credit, credit awarded by exam, and college courses taken during high school. [Eligibility</a> & Credit Transfer : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/transfer/credit.html]Eligibility”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/transfer/credit.html)</p>
<p>I’ve read the information on the websites of Stanford and Harvard. And it doesn’t say that if I enrolled at another university I would be considered a transfer. It only states that after completing one full year at another university I will be considered a transfer student. So if I suspend my university education before I completed the first year, there shouldn’t be any problem to enroll as a freshman at H or S (I repeat, this is according to the information presented on the websites). And I’m asking whether this inference that I made is really correct ?</p>
<p>Contact the admissions offices to be sure.</p>