As a future transfer student, will AP credits hurt me?

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Here’s the situation; I am a current high school junior whose dream is to attend NYU or a similarly ranked school (Preferably NYU) and I WILL be applying early decision this coming November. However if I don’t make it in for whatever reason I want to try to be a junior transfer there. The reason I don’t think I’ll get in straight from high school is due to the fact that I wasn’t as focused school wise as I should have been my freshman and beginning of my sophomore year in high school which has led to a dramatic drop in my GPA. However since then I have become a lot more focused trying to bring up my GPA. As of the end of my first semester of junior year, my GPA currently sits at 3.73 and rising. That’s not the point of this post though, as even if I do not make it right away I will be transferring. My real question is: Will the AP credit I accumulate in high school come back to bite me when it comes to transfer admission time? Even in the time that I was unfocused in high school I was still taking an excessive amount of AP classes (and passing their tests just getting a few C’s/D’s in the actual classes) which has led me to have 30 college credit. Which as you all know is just short of a year in college. So if I try to transfer as a junior in college will this come to hurt me because I would only have another years worth of actual college classes under my belt, so would colleges look more at my high school transcript than my college transcript at that point when they consider me for transfer?

Sorry for the long post.

TL;DR: Will the more AP credits I receive in high school cause colleges I apply to as a transfer student to look more heavily at my high school transcript?

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You don’t have any college credits yet from your AP exams. What you have is the possibility that if you are admitted somewhere that awards credit for the scores you have in the AP exams that you have taken, you might end up with as many as 30 credits.

Credits awarded for exams do not automatically transfer to another college/university. Each place sets its own policy about credit by exam, and it is possible to lose all of the credits that College A awarded you for your AP exam results if you transfer to College B.

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So in that case when do I transfer? Let’s assume the university I end up at right after high school accepts all my credits, when would be an appropriate time to transfer?

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@happymomof1

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To enroll as a junior, you would normally apply for transfer during your sophomore year of college.

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you need to look into articulation information at NYU , as well as the transfer student info to find out what classes/AP tests will count toward college credit units.

https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/apply/transfer-applicants/transfer-credits.html

A LOT of private colleges will not give much credit for AP or transferred units, nor are they required to. They want you to pay THEM for a degree with their name on it. So dont count on being able to graduate in 2 years after transferring in.