Deferral Policy on Transfers

Transfer Students
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<p>I never got an answer to this a while ago, so I thought I'd give it another shot. </p>

<p>Does anyone know if Wake Forest allows you to defer your admission as a transfer? I was accepted, enrolled, got my ID, room, email, etc .. and then I had complications with my transfer credits from UNC-CH which delayed me. I was about to come 2 weeks after classes started and the administration told me they were worried I wouldn't be able to catch up and said they didn't recommend me coming. I was already enrolled at UNCCH and went to classes, so I just stayed here. They told me to contact them for next semester and hopefully we'd get everything straightened out. I asked what my status was there and the registrar didn't know, and the Financial Services just told me to give them a chance to make it right in the Spring. I emailed admissions to ask if I could defer or what I should do, and I got no answer. They aren't returning my phone calls and always say they are swamped with early admission applications right now. Does anyone know if colleges let a student defer their admissions till the Spring? I'm still enrolled at Chapel Hill and I wasn't sure if I needed to reapply to Wake for spring. My room and such is still open and I paid my deposit. </p>

<p>I don't know if I'm considered enrolled but not registered for the semester or if I've been withdrawn as a student. I wasn't sure if a situation like this has ever happened and how colleges handle this. If they told me to contact them for the Spring semester, I would hope they didn't mean reapply and try again to get in...</p>

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<p>How did transfer credits delay you from physically attending Wake Forest? You need to get the phone number of someone who is in a position to help you (not some minimum wage-earning lackey in admissions) and be very clear with them.</p>

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<p>It really didn't. I had only 6/41 confirmed from UNC-CH, and I determined it really wasn't worth risking all of that to go to Wake since Chapel Hill and Wake are about equal schools. I wanted to transfer because it was always my dream to go to Wake, and because UNC is much too big for me, but risking losing that much wasn't worth it. I finally got 31/41 to move over after classes had started for a week and a half, but by that time, the administration said they didn't think I could catch up and to wait till next semester and contact them then. I also needed to take Accounting, and it took me a week to finally get a response from the Dean who I was told to contact by my advisor. </p>

<p>Wake Forest is awful to communicate with. Let me just put that out there. Their professors are extremely helpful and understanding, but it ends there..</p>