<p>...even though I will be matriculating at a different college this year. I will specify that I do no expect any credits to be counted by Princeton, thus it isn't really a transfer. Is this even possible to do?</p>
<p>i plan to do this too. i'm wondering the same thing...</p>
<p>I don't think you can re-apply if you've already matriculated at another college, even just by not counting the credits. If you took a gap year, yes.</p>
<p>What's a "gap year."</p>
<p>gap year means the year that you attend nowhere.</p>
<p>Is that really what you want to do? Princeton is the toughest school there is to get into for "not high school seniors". Why not go to what college you can go to now, get all A's for a year or two, and then transfer to a better school? You can apply to Princeton for grad school...</p>
<p>machiavelli, this may not be the case. Harvard and MIT state that a student who has not completely two terms may apply as a freshman. However, Stanford explicitly states that if a student has matriculated as a full-time student anywhere, he may must apply as a freshman. Princeton lacks information altogether.</p>
<p>Princeton doesn't allow transfer students</p>
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<p>oops, this should read, "he must apply as a transfer."</p>
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<p>Yes, but this is not the question.</p>
<p>sonar, that is according to what the admissions officer in my area said when I asked him. Why I asked him, I don't know... Lol. He seemed pretty adamant about it. I know it's not exactly in print or written online, but I don't think any of us can speculate against what he said.</p>
<p>ah, okay. I just noticed that different colleges have different criteria for what they consider to be "transfer" students. For example, at Harvard and MIT, transfers are those who have completed two terms at accreditted institutions. Therefore, students who have only completed one term by the time of proposed matriculation will be considered as freshman candidates by Harvard and MIT.</p>
<p>Does this mean that Princeton considers any student who has matriculated full-time to be a prospecitve transfer, and, thus ineligible for admission? If so, could someone provide a link?</p>
<p>bumpo_____</p>
<p>You're still allowed to take classes during your Gap Year. I'm not sure if that means you can attend a full time university, though...</p>
<p>The only transfer students Princeton takes are athletes - primarily football players. Bill Foran, a potential quarterback, was recruited from Purdue.</p>
<p>Haha, I was wondering why Byerly hadn't volunteered a few words so far.</p>
<p>why would you reapply to be a freshmen, what a waste of time!!!
i'd rather goto a nameless college and graduate 2 semesters early</p>
<p>You can reapply as a freshman.</p>
<p>A good friend attended one semester at Brandeis, decided she didn't like it, and then applied to Princeton and was accepted.</p>
<p>No transfers though.</p>
<p>One semester, eh? This news makes me happy. Hopefully, Princeton will at least <i>look</i> at my college grades, because obviously anything I did in high school didn't cut it.</p>
<p>Dear Filler:
Are you sure about Princeton being the hardest to get into for "non-HS seniors"? If so, why is this? I am concerned because my daughter finished HS in 3 years, and now intends to spend/take a year off to do community service-- during that year, she intends to apply to Princeton-- is this going to make it harder for her to get admitted than if she had simply gone to HS for 4 years?</p>
<p>mzhang,</p>
<p>Was your friend accepted as a senior and chose not to attend Princeton, or was this her first time applying / she was rejected as a senior?</p>