Is it harder get accepted after rejecting an acceptance?

Transfer Students
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<p>I applied to a few schools a transfer student and managed to get in. One of them was BC. I decided I couldn't go because the financial aid didn't fare to well for my family. However, next year my dad is going to retire and I think this will better help my financial aid. I was contemplating on whether to defer my admission or not, but ultimately decided not attend because my parents don't want me to waste 6 months. I planning on applying to BC again in the fall, but I'm really afraid my chances will be lowered because I rejected their admission offer. </p>

<p>So my question is will my chances for acceptance be lowered if I rejected admission once already from a university that has accepted me? </p>

<p>These are probably one of those questions without an absolute answer, but I would really like to hear what some people think.</p>

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<p>Maybe, but I’d say use it to your favor by spinning it as “repentance” story or something. Remember that you only rejected them for freshman admissions - the ultimate fail point of no return would be if you got in as a freshman, got in when applying for first-year transfer, turned them down both times and then tried to apply again for a second year transfer.</p>

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<p>I’m sure you are correct that this is case by case. However, I do know of students who were accepted as freshmen, turned down the acceptance and were later accepted as transfers.</p>

<p>I agree that you might find some place to mention in your application that financial aid was the reason you couldn’t go and now you think that it might be possible.</p>