<p>At what point do you have too many credits and are deemed a transfer student rather than first year?</p>
<p>Never, at most colleges, as long as you don’t enroll in a college’s four-year degree program and as long as those credits are treated as part of your high school program. But check the rules of your own state’s university system (which may be most problematic) and any other college you are sure you will apply to. This is NOT a problem at MIT–I asked this specific question a few years ago, and heard back from admission officer Matt McGann that lots of MIT freshman admission applicants have lots of previous dual-enrollment credits.</p>
<p>I would suggest NOT getting an AA along with your HS diploma. Here is Florida, there has been some problems associated with that. Even if you have 60 hours, try to not meet AA requirements as you could be considered a transfer now instead of a HS applicant if you are considering UF.</p>
<p>The problem that I have encountered with my son is that if the credits were ALSO counted as part of the High school Program, then they are not transferable. My son has 20 college credits as part of an embedded college program at his high school and Northwestern University will not accept the credits. Northwestern position is that the credits had to be taken with college students and a college or university, not current high school students at their high school. However, that is not always the case, some of the other students in his class were able to transfer the credit. I know that UVA accepts them. So I guess it depends on the college you are attending. </p>
<p>As far as the AA is concerned. There was a girl at my son’s school that did get her AA degree at night at the local community college. She applied and was accepted to Brown as a Freshman, not a transfer. I am not sure how they are handling the credits from her AA Degree.</p>
<p>I have 84 semester hours worth of credits - far more than enough for an AA. It wasn’t a problem for my applications because I didn’t get any degree, etc. I will only be about to transfer about 8 to Pomona, but transferring credit was never my intent for taking those classes (although I hope to place out of most intro courses since I don’t want to take them again).</p>
<p>I’m earning AS and AA general education core diplomas, which means no matter what I major in, as long as it is instate I’m exempt from all general education requirements. I’ve talked to the instate schools I’m applying to and they say I get to apply as a first year student and stay up to 4 years, but I get all my credit–so I get my cake an eat it too. As an added bonus, community college courses in my state are free for high school students.</p>
<p>I’m applying through questbridge to some top schools, and the agreement seems to be that they are freshman applicants.</p>