<p>I'm going to be a sophomore at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. The summer has given me time to think, and I decided that I may not really want to stay there. I looked at the admissions websites of a few schools recently, however, and most of them seem like they only accept transfer applications at the same time as other, regular decision applications. I am a total stranger to the transferring process, so could somebody tell me if there's any way I could apply somewhere now so that I could transfer for the spring semester of 2007-2008?</p>
<p>carnegie mellon</p>
<p>whats your major?</p>
<p>Yeah, there are a lot of schools that take spring transfers. But my advice is that its better to go to a school you really love and have to wait till the fall then to settle for a school you dont love as much because you want to get there a semester sooner. </p>
<p>You can also take this year off so you don't have to be at the school you don't like. Or you can go and continue to build your transcript ,etc.</p>
<p>Although a lot do take spring transfers, many do not. So it will limit your choices and I agree with ClaySoul that it's not a great idea to limit yourself to spring transfer schools if that group doesn't already include your top choices.
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most of them seem like they only accept transfer applications at the same time as other, regular decision applications
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Not sure where you are seeing this. I know that the UC system has the same or similar deadlines for transfer as for freshmen, but most other schools have quite different timetables. </p>
<p>I'd say the typical timetables are something like this:</p>
<p>Freshman EA/ED/SCEA application deadlines: around Nov. 1
Freshman regular application deadlines: late December/January 1, even as late as February
Freshman rolling application deadlines: widely varying, with less selective schools accepting apps all the way into the summer
Transfer application deadlines: a very few in November; a few more in December, early January. Vast majority around March 1/March 15. A few in May.
Transfer rolling application deadlines: see freshman rolling, above.</p>