It could be far cheaper and easier by leaving my current schools and applying to a different one without carrying over my credit. Is this possible?
No. You can’t pretend you didn’t go to school elsewhere.
ETA: Some schools will consider you a freshman if you attended for less than a certain number of credit hours, so you could look into that. But the limit is typically quite small.
You are required to provide all the info, I’m sure it says so on the app. They want to see the transcripts as part of your evaluation and be sure you don’t have any disciplinary actions too.
Where did you end up going? You have attended one year now,right? So I don’t think anyone will accept you except as a transfer. I don’t see how applying as a freshman is easier than applying as a transfer. It would only be cheaper because of aid, right? So apply to ‘meets 100 pct need’ colleges and the aid should be the same.
This is funny timing are you thinking of a new college for fall 2016?
Which college did you end up attending?
I’m not actually transferring. I was just thinking about cost then wondering if it was possible because of how much more scholarships are available for freshman. I went Wake Forest.
All apps that I know of require you to list all previous schools attended. And there are national databases where colleges can and will check, because for one thing they are required to make sure you are eligible for aid that might include a gov’t loan or guarantee. They want to make sure you haven’t used up your eligibility by, say, attending another college you “forgot” to list. Then when they find out you were not honest on your app they rescind you. So I suggest not doing this.
No, you cannot reapply. Those years at Wake Forest cannot be undone. You took classes there, learned from teachers, and received grades from there. If you “conveniently” apply as a freshman, colleges will not be happy. As said above, colleges have their ways of checking. If you lie, it’s not going to be taken lightly. Transfer students are required to send transcripts from all the schools they attended; so your academic history can never really “disappear” however upwards trends and improvements are key if you weren’t the class genius in the past.