<p>I talked to my school on Friday and we looked at my credits, and I can graduate January 2012. I am 99% I will be doing this. I'm not sure if I want to do an internship or something, or go straight to school.</p>
<p>My thought is that I will apply to colleges for their spring semester, and then if I get an internship opportunity wait until I have officially gotten into the school and write the dean and ask that my acceptance be put off until the fall semester. </p>
<p>What do you think of that plan? </p>
<p>Also I've been looking online for application dates for spring semesters, and I can't find them on all the schools I'm looking at. Do any schools only accept new students in the fall?</p>
<p>Many only accepts new students in the fall, hence, freshman admission. But usually schools accepts freshman “transfer” admission for both spring and fall.</p>
<p>You are taking about a deferred action, meaning pushing back your entrance date. It is done very often. You have to consult with the school, however.</p>
<p>I would instead go to school, because your degree is more important than internship. You can always co-work while in school.</p>
<p>Deferred action! yes haha I couldn’t think of what it was called.</p>
<p>But if some only accept new students in the fall, and since I won’t be in college so I don’t think I can be a “transfer,” what should I be doing for 8 months between January and August/September?</p>
<p>I don’t really know any school that accepts Spring incoming freshman. When I say incoming, meaning you are a fresh high school graduate. When I say freshman transfer admission, you must be at another institution and not exceed certain amounts of credits the admission policy says. You definitely not the latter case.</p>
<p>Now, are you a HS student? If you are…</p>
<p>You are expected to graduate by January 2012. So you should be doing your admission in the Fall (or better yet earlier) for the Spring. Meaning you can attend the spring semester or deferred the attendance to Fall (or even later).</p>
<p>If you are admitted to the Spring semester, then you should consider attending it.
Otherwise if you defer it, you definitely have 8 months before Fall, which means you have to get a job or internship, or something to do.</p>
<p>Some local colleges accept incoming freshman for the spring.</p>
<p>Actually I find it weird to defer in your case. If you ever want to apply for the Spring semester (assuming the college you want to attend has it), and you want to defer it, you should just apply to the Fall semester, which can increases the range of colleges that you can apply to.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you should really consider attend the school, and co-work the internship while studying. You should be doing some internships anyway along the line.</p>
<p>State unis often accept incoming February freshman, so do a number of less-competitive private colleges/unis - - but the application dates can be as early as Sept. 15.</p>