I currently finished high school as an exchange student and now am back at my home country in Europe. Since I was too late to apply to the U.S. last year I was thinking of starting college here and then transferring to Loyola University of Chicago for January-spring term. However I do want to apply to University of Chicago eventually since I think I have all the requirements to get accepted but they don’t have spring term admissions so if I wanted to go there I’d have to take a gap year which would be in all honesty a waste of time in my case. Can this be possible? Like startin UC in September of next year and staying in Loyola only for a semester?
If the answer can’t be found on the website, why don’t you contact UChicago admissions and ask them directly? It looks to me like they may only offer fall transfer applications. http://www.collegetransfer.net/UniversityofChicago/TransferProfile/tabid/145/Default.aspx Also keep in mind that UChicago takes very few transfers (88 out of 800 last year).
Far more students have the requirements to be admitted to UofC than are actually admitted. You need to be prepared to finish your degree at Loyola.
Getting into U. of Chicago as a transfer student seems relatively unlikely. Many (actually most) students in the US who have all of the requirements to get into a top university still don’t get accepted at any one particular university. In general the top universities don’t have enough places to accept more than a small handful of the qualified applicants.
Planning to transfer twice also seems like a bad idea.
Why do you want to transfer to a university in Chicago? Do you know people in Chicago?
Do you have any financial constraints at all? Would $75,000 per year be an issue for you and your family (figure on more like $80,000 per year by the time that you graduate)?
This indicates that you are not aware of the holistic nature of elite college admissions in the US.
Yes I have family in Chicago and I can live with them during that time which would financially be very handy. And I’m familiar with the nature of admissions but definitely not a reason not to try getting in. I was just curious to see if this would work but well, with some research about transfers in UofC figured it would be very tough. I should apply in Loyola and see how it goes from there. The replies were very helpful. Thank you!
You certainly can try, but transfer too many times will not sit well with elite school like UChicago. You must have a valid reason to explain to the adcoms and you must have two strong LORs. What you wrote above is not going to sit well and how can you get LORs from the college you transfer from? Where you have been there less than half year. With the admit rate for transfers in 1% level, the odds is against you.
But good luck, with best wishes.