Help!

[fungusmaximus]

<p>So...I'm thinking of applying to H EA next year. My scores are pretty good; my extracurricular meh (partly because I live in a country that doesn't give a damn about this). </p>

<p>But... By the time I apply, I will have entered college. So should I still give it a shot? If yes, from which counselor and teachers do I have to ask for recs? </p>

<p>Thanks in advance. :)</p>

[exultationsy]

<p>In countries with a different admissions cycle, you were still supposed to have applied during your last year of secondary school. For instance, my friend from Australia got in and then had 9 months to kill (or something). She did end up spending it at a university, but not as a regular degree student. If you will have entered university by the time you apply, not by the time you get in, you are a transfer applicant.</p>

[fungusmaximus]

<p>I do have decent ECs, but they are incomparable to those of CC posters. I spent most of my time working. :)</p>

<p>exultationsy:

Once a student has completed one year of full-time study at a single college or university, he or she ordinarily may apply to Harvard College only as a transfer student. Further guidelines for eligibility are as follows:</p>

<ul>
<li>By the anticipated date of matriculation, applicants must have satisfactorily completed a minimum of one continuous academic year in a degree program at one college, and not more than two academic years of full-time college study.</li>
<li>Students who will have completed less than one full-time continuous year of study at one college by the anticipated date of matriculation at Harvard should apply as freshman candidates. (All such applicants, if admitted, will matriculate as regular freshmen without any transfer credit.)

</li>
</ul>

<p>I plan to spend my second semester half-time studying. I have to work for financial reasons. :)</p>

[fungusmaximus]

<p>Bumpity bump…</p>

[exultationsy]

<p>You should maybe e-mail them and ask, then? It doesn’t sound like the answer is so obvious that asking would be silly.</p>

[compmom]

<p>Is Harvard taking transfers at all these days? I know that a few years back they weren’t…</p>

[Admiral]

<p>Harvard started accepting transfers again starting with Fall 2010 enrollment:</p>

<p>[College</a> To Resume Accepting Transfer Applications | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/1/15/transfer-students-admissions-according/]College”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/1/15/transfer-students-admissions-according/)</p>

<p>See the program for more details:</p>

<p>[Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Transfer Program](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/index.html]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/index.html)</p>