I’m currently a sophomore in high school and I’m doing IGETC at my local community college to fulfill GE requirements by the time I get to college. However, the IGETC certificate only transfers to UCs and CSUs so I was wondering if it was okay for me to apply freshman to UCs but apply as a transfer to private/out-of-state universities so they’ll still accept the credits I have.
You need @Gumbymom or @ucbalumnus.
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Most colleges distinguish between frosh and transfer applicants by whether you have taken college courses after you graduate or otherwise leave high school. In other words, high school students who take college courses while still in high school generally apply as frosh.
If the college you matriculate to accepts the college courses for credit and subject credit, then you may get a head start on fulfilling various requirements to graduate from college.
Students who have taken college courses after graduating or otherwise leaving high school may be required to apply as transfers, depending on the target college’s rules (which can vary from one college to another). It is possible that one college may specify that a student with a small number of post-high-school college credits apply as a frosh, but another college may specify that the same student apply as a transfer.
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if you take college credits while in hs the you’ll apply as a freshman for the application process, but you may graduate early since the IGETC roughly takes 2 years to finish for most Community college students wanting to transfer! so you would most likely be entered as a freshman but graduate college early (:
always great to get ahead! I wish I had done that when I was in hs
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From what I read, most prestigious private colleges won’t accept college work while you are at HS, even if UCs and CSUs accept them.
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