<p>Hi guys,
another question..</p>
<p>if you attend college A for like half of the semester (like sept~nov) and drop out and decide to apply to different colleges as a freshmen
do you have to notify other schools that u attended college A?</p>
<p>thank youu!</p>
<p>Yes. And, at that point, some schools might be willing to consider you a freshman, but most would treat you as a transfer student.</p>
<p>So, whether or not you’d be able to make those three months “disappear” depends on what school you’d be trying to transfer to.</p>
<p>There was a thread about this quite recently, but I can’t recall what forum it was in. Possibly financial aid, but I could be mistaken.</p>
<p>If you are going to withdraw, the sooner you do it, the better. </p>
<p>If you leave soon enough, you might get some of your money back. If you leave before any academic record has been generated, it can be as though you never had a relationship with that college at all, and you will be treated as a regular freshman applicant.</p>
<p>If you withdraw after an academic record is created, for the rest of your life whenever you apply to college or grad school you will have to request an official copy of that transcript full of Ws. It will be a pain in the you-know-what to have to keep track of that forever.</p>
<p>so if i withdraw before 1st semester ends, i wouldnt have to report to schools that i’d be applying as freshmen?</p>
<p>Yes, you would need to report to schools that you had attended college for a few months, and send those transcripts.</p>
<p>But I disagree that most college would consider you a transfer student. Transfer students are usually students who have at least 30 (but sometimes at least 15) credits earned. Students who dropped out mid-semester would have NO earned credits, so at most places they would likely be treated like a freshman applicant.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>[Harvard[/url</a>] counts you as a transfer after one year.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/transfer]Columbia[/url”>Transfer Applicants | Columbia Undergraduate Admissions]Columbia[/url</a>] says 24 points/credits or about one year of full-time study.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-and-aid/transfer-students.xml]Swarthmore[/url”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-and-aid/transfer-students.xml]Swarthmore[/url</a>] says you are definitely a transfer if you have completed two semesters of full-time study, but that if you have less than that they will consider you on a case-by-case basis.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/admission-information-for-transfer-students.html]University”>https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/admission-information-for-transfer-students.html]University</a> of Georgia](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/eligibility.html]Harvard[/url”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/eligibility.html) considers you a transfer applicant after one year.</p>
<p>[Penn</a> State](<a href=“http://admissions.psu.edu/info/future/transfer/index.cfm]Penn”>Penn State Admissions Information for Transfer Students - Undergraduate Admissions) considers you a transfer applicant if you have attempted 18 or more semester hours.</p>
<p>[Southern</a> Methodist](<a href=“http://www.smu.edu/Admission/Apply/Transfer/AdmissionRequirements]Southern”>Transfer Admission) has two categories of transfer students: “first-year transfers” with less than 30 credit hours to transfer; they need to submit all high school information as well. Then regular transfer students, who have 30+ credits.</p>
<p>So it’s different at different schools, but it seems like many (possibly most) schools are willing to consider you as a first-time freshman applicant if you don’t have a year of college under your belt somewhere else.</p>
<p>^^^ Thank you, juillet - glad to know I was wrong about that!</p>
<p>chillychilly, I think the only way not to have this on your record at all is to withdraw before the semester starts (or possibly within days of the start of the semester, if there’s a drop-add period).</p>