I applied for Ohio state my senior year and didn’t get in. I’m going to start my freshman year at another university in a couple weeks, but I was hoping to transfer to OSU in the spring. I emailed undergraduate admissions with a question I had about transferring, but they told me if I transfer for the spring semester then I probably wouldn’t get in again because I will not have a full year of college transcripts for them to see. But I know a couple people who were waitlisted when they applied as seniors and they went to another school and transferred to OSU their freshman spring semester… so I don’t know what to think or what to do. someone PLEASE help!!
I don’t think that any of us can give an accurate prediction regarding your chances. If you apply to be a spring transfer, then the only additional information that they will have are your final grades your senior year of high school. If you apply to transfer arriving at OSU in the fall of 2020, then they will also have your first semester grades from your first year of university.
To me your best chance appears to be to work very hard and try to get the best grades that you can in university. Always stay ahead in all of your course work. Seek out help if you have any doubts at all in any classes. Then apply to transfer applying to start fall 2020. This also has the advantage that you would be arriving in fall 2020 at the same time that a large number of other new students are arriving.
However, I expect that if you also first apply to be a spring transfer, then I don’t think that this will cause any harm except for the effort to fill out the application. I don’t see any harm in making OSU think that you really do want to go there.
To me job #1 is to do very well in university. This will help you significantly regardless of when or whether you transfer. Also, if you do very well in university, the question becomes when you will be able to transfer, rather than if you will be able to transfer.
A lot of kids transfer into schools from which they are denied. So, I don’t think the denial will play a role unless for cause.