Sorry @KaMaMom and @destiny95
Sorry for the bad news. 
Hang in there guys!
@winnieroot If you attend a college as a freshman–any college and any major–then when you are applying to another MT program the following year, you are applying as a transfer student. If you take a gap year, then you are applying as an incoming freshman. Acceptance rate for colleges (without regard to major) will usually be lower for transfer students. You may be playing with fire and lower your overall chance of acceptance.
@uskoolfish Is one “required” to disclose work as a Freshman? I know you would lose any credit. Just wondering if they ask this question on a college app? and what if you begin, but don’t actually complete the year? Just curious how this actually works in practice. I understand the concept.
Yes, they ask the question and it is required information. Plus with the common app, I’d imagine that there may even be ways that it can be checked. You are required to disclose all credit classes you take at a university and it is asked for on all applications.
The flaw in my (purely hypothetical) plan. Lower acceptance rates for transfers.
I have always wondered about the lower acceptance for transfers. After all, isn’t it a much smaller pool? Let’s say a school generally has 1000 kids audition for 20 slots. And in that 20, they take 2 transfers. But in that 1000, maybe only 100 are trying to transfer. Odds seem better to me…
toowonderful…Just using your hypothetical though, if 100 apply as transfers and they accept 2, that is just 2%. That doesn’t sound like better odds to me.
In any case, I think many programs take less than 2 transfers. Some take none.
There are fewer scholarships for transfer students. Also, if a student qualifies for merit scholarships, transfers will only get Two years as opposed to 4 years of scholarship dollars, and they are often for smaller amounts. Most places will allow you to take up to 11 hours during the gap year and still not be considered a transfer student.
Dual enrollment students (students that attend college BEFORE graduating from high school) may transfer more than that, but if more than 11 hours of college credit were earned while still in high school, they become a transfer student if they take even 1 class after high school graduation. In our experience, most schools do not limit the number of college credit hours a dual enrollment student can bring to college and still qualify for freshman scholarships, and we have applied or inquired with over 30 schools. Out of all of those schools, only Wright State limited the number of college courses they allowed high school students to take before enrolling in college (and still be considered a freshman). They consider any dual enrollment student with more than 32 hours to be a transfer student even if they are just graduating from high school. This disqualifies them from the school’s largest academic scholarships. The same would be true of any student taking a few college courses while taking a gap year, then applying to Wright State.
If you are planning to take a gap year and hope to get scholarships or financial aid, you should look very closely at how taking a few college classes may change that.
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So what’s everyone still waiting on?
We’re still waiting for :
American
JMU
Webster
Stevens Point
Temple
& CMU
Just CMU
And Syracuse
NU
NYU
Ball State
Point Park
CMU
NYU
applied March 15 to Temple. Need to call to see if we can get an audition as I haven’t heard from them.
Hartt
TCU
NYU
Syracuse
Steven’s Point
hartt
suny purchase
cmu
syracuse
@dushing2 that is very helpful. My D has a crap ton of dual enrollment credits and I always wondered why she would still be considered a Freshman and not a transfer.
Waiting on Montclair and Molloy/cap 21. Anyone know how many weeks after the audition it has taken for these schools to give decisions?
Just point park. It’s snail mail and we’re international.