Considering Transferring/Reapplying during Junior Year....

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<p>I did a bad job of applying to schools during my senior year of highschool. Got into a great private university, but the school's academic focus are completely opposite of my majors. (The school is engineering/pre-med focused. I am a Sociology/History major). Like others, my grades started off strong but declined due to lack of motivation and just a rough time engaging myself intellectually while I was in college. So, I'm looking to transfer to a school that is more suited for a social science major. Currently, I am in a withdrawn semester, looking for jobs and something to bolster my new resume. </p>

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<li><p>I'm thinking about completely reapplying, not transferring. I guess that is the equivalent of retaking a year (or two, if necessary). I don't want to go to a new school as a junior....it just doesn't seem good for me personally in a intellectual growth manner. I want to restart the whole process where I can put my head to the test and challenge myself from the beginning.
so the question 1) Is reapplying a good idea (as in retaking a year or two?) or should I just transfer into my current grade?</p></li>
<li><p>My high school "package," so to speak, was nearly excellent except for just above-average grades. I continued most of my high school "extras" into college, but by my sophomore year, I dropped a lot of them due to depression and struggles. So now, in my second time around applying for college...I have little to no confidence in myself in how colleges would view me. Would they just see me as a washup who succumbed to laziness and depression? Or would they still have hope that the kid who left high school in excellent condition can still be salvaged at a new school and better environment? </p></li>
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<p>Question 2: How do colleges view transfer/reapplying students? What are their main focus. Do I immediately get slashed for not being anywhere close to being "spectacular" as my high school times? </p>

<p>If anybody replies to this, thank you so much. It's wordy and sappy...so thanks a lot for helping out in any way. </p>

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<p>I’m not sure what you’re talking about here about ‘reapplying but not transferring’; how are you differentiating the two? </p>

<p>After you’re admitted to a school as a transfer, they will evaluate your credits and will decided how many they will accept and put your soph/jr standing accordingly. And if you have over two years of post-HS college credit, some schools will not let you apply at all.</p>

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<p>Ah, yes. I should have clarified. My bad. I guess maybe it’s my misundertanding of the transfer process, but I thought it was a possible thing to simply start over as a freshman (which I considered “reapplying”).</p>

<p>But that makes much more sense. Are you saying that it wouldn’t be my choice and that the school would most likely place me wherever they wanted me to be grade wise? </p>

<p>***I’ve only spent 3 semesters, so I think I should be good. </p>

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<p>No you simply cannot “start over as a freshman” elsewhere. The grades you got at your current college are the grades you got and you can’t just decide to throw them out because you want to. When you apply to a different school, those grades will come with you. And based on the number of transferable credits, the school will determine which “grade level” you’re in.</p>