<p>IE apply for transfer the following semester.</p>
<p>For example sally attends state college and has spent one semester, IE sixth months, there. She applies to yale and NYU as a freshman and gets rejected from both. Next semester (now her third semester since she applied in her second) she decides to apply again as a transfer since she has already spent a total of a year in college full time. Can she do this or will she automatically be dismissed?</p>
<p>(Also is this made impossible by the fact that some schools only enroll in fall?).</p>
<p>Yes, some schools only accept transfers for the fall, Y for instance. At Y, Sally could apply during her fr year to be a soph transfer for the following fall. If rejected, she could then apply during her soph year to be a jr transfer for the following fall.</p>
<p>Thanks Entomom. Not to be bothersome, but would the same sorts of schools also allow retransfer apps in the case of students with unusual start dates?</p>
<p>For example, Sally is admitted to college X in the spring of 2010, she completes the semester there and then starts her second semester after the summer. She decides to apply for admission for fall 2011 (by which time she will have gone through three semesters, IE over a year of courses and hence must apply as a transfer). Will she enroll as a sophomore? And if she gets rejected, will she be able to apply as a junior transfer for fall 2012?</p>
<p>For your first question, it will depend on the individual school and how many units they accept. If her full three semesters of credit were accepted, she’d likely enter as a second semester soph (just like she’d have been at her old school).</p>
<p>The second question gets a little tougher, because then she would be entering with 5 semesters and some schools require that a student spend at least 2 full years on campus, so she might have to spend longer on getting her degree. And there are some schools, for instance Y, that both require you to spend 2 years on campus and will not let you apply as a transfer if you have more than 2 full years of post-HS college (this is because they are very tight about students finishing in 4 years).</p>
<p>I don’t mind answering your questions, but I also want to give one piece of advice. If Sally hasn’t even applied to colleges as a fr yet, it’s way too early for her to contemplate transferring.</p>