I am currently a freshman at BU trying to transfer to FSU because I’m honestly tired of working my ass off and want to enjoy college a bit. I am a biochemistry major and because I took so many AP exams, I have 60 credit hours with 32 of them being from AP exams. Since I have a lot of credit hours, FSU is forcing me to apply as a transferring junior. However, unlike applying as a transferring sophomore, juniors are required to have taken certain courses for their major already. Since the courses I took in high school had nothing to do with my major (all history/english/social sciences) and I am only a freshman, I do not meet those requirements. I called the admissions office to try and get my status changed to a sophomore but they wouldn’t listen and kept insisting that my credit hours would force me to be a junior and there was nothing I could do about it. I was transferred to the person they said looks over the applicants specifically for my major (which turned out to be a CAS person who looks over 80 different majors) and when I tried to explain my situation cut me off and refused to answer my questions, telling me that I should email her and then she’d respond. I have sent emails to both her and the admissions office but neither have responded. I really want to transfer to FSU because it’s actually the only college I applied, thinking I would definitely get into a state school with a 3.7 at a private research university, a 2300 SAT score, and a high school GPA of 4.0. What do you guys suggest I do next?
Stick with BU but take a gap semester or year, or at the very least cut back on your credits so you have more time for fun. You can reapply to transfer next spring but should consider schools that are more flexible.
Or, consider another school for next year. There are lots of colleges with open enrollment or rolling admissions that still have space.
You need to find out whether or not FSU would award you that many credits for the AP exam scores. Check it exam by exam. There is a fair chance that FSU is not going to automatically give you the same amount of credit as BU did. It should be very clear on your BU transcript that certain credits were awarded by exam, rather than earned in class. Read the FSU application paperwork very carefully. It may indicate a certain number of “earned credits”.
FSU it very generous with AP credits. All Florida public’s are, because their goal is to 'process ’ students as fast as possible.
There’s no choice here. Op must stay at BU (or apply to one of the universities that miscalculated yield - Mizzou may be cheaper), complete his pre- reqs, then apply to FSU.
If BU is completely hateful, would there be any merit in taking the missing classes at a community college? Maybe a FL CC that has a transfer agreement for the intended major so that the OP knows the pre-reqs will surely be the right ones.
I thought there was an option to not transfer all of your ap credits? (most schools ask which ap creds you want to report)