<p>I will be attending UCLA this fall, but I plan on transferring up (don't want to give up on the dream schools). I heard from a relative that it is possible to transfer as a first year student. Is this true?</p>
<p>Depends on the college.</p>
<p>i dunno if california schools are any different from the rest of the nation, but usually anyone can apply to transfer to any school after their first year (except princeton)</p>
<p>nope, I know two people who transfered out after fall semester, from different schools in different places (one person transfered from bucknell to NYU after fall semester, the other transfered from Menlo College to some school in santa Barbra). I think you would have to have excellent reasons for wanting to transfer, and you'll have to make sure your grades are EXCELLENT as they will mostly focus on your HS grades. I would reccomend getting excellent grades for a full year and apply totransfer for your sophomore year. You'll have a better chance of getting in.</p>
<p>If your dream is South Bend, ND doesn't take freshman transfers. But they do take sophomores, that's how I got in. Some schools do, though. They usually are not the top-tier schools.</p>
<p>Thanks for the all replies, but I mean reapply as a freshman while in college. For example, as a freshman at UCLA for fall 2006, I'd apply as a freshman at Brown or Dartmouth as a Freshman for fall 2007. Is that possible?</p>
<p>If not, I understand that a full year to two years is better to transfer.</p>
<p>thats a good question...i doubt it but i've heard people suggest to others to start off new with a clean slate. i dunno how you do that since most sites say if you've taken college work, you're no longer able to apply as a freshman.</p>
<p>See, I don't know if I am misunderstanding, but here are some excerpts:</p>
<p>Harvard:
"Students who will have completed less than one full-time continuous year of study at one college by the anticipated date of matriculation at Harvard should apply as freshman candidates. (All such applicants, if admitted, will matriculate as regular freshmen without any transfer credit.)"</p>
<p>Yale:
"If by the end of the current academic year you will have completed less than one year of full-time college study, you should apply through the freshman admissions process. If you matriculate at Yale as a freshman, course credit or distributional credit cannot be given for any university course taken while you were still enrolled in secondary school. Work done after graduation from secondary school but before matriculation at Yale may be accepted (to a maximum of two credits) on recommendation from the appropriate director of undergraduate studies."</p>
<p>Penn:
"The University does not admit freshmen at mid-year. Students who leave college at the end of the first term may apply to the freshman class entering in the subsequent September. The freshman application deadline is January 1. Students who are completing their senior year of high school concurrently with their first year of college should apply as freshmen."</p>
<p>So... am I misinterpreting something?</p>
<p>uh, I guess you could? It'd be a waste of money, and time, though. Cause if you want to be a freshman again in 07 it would mean you don't want to transfer any of the credits you earn at UCLA. Also then it would just be your HS grades and scores all over again and who's to say you'll get in with them if you were already rejected? Why not just be a normal transfer? Why would you want to re-do freshman year and be in a class with people yoiunger than you? If you want to take a year off, take a year off, but don't waste the money and lost wages (opportunity cost) and time to go to ucla for a year if it would be for nothing?</p>
<p>My friend is transferring to UCLA from a CCC after a year. UCLA accepted him based on ~47 credits he had accumulated during the summer and fall quarters at the time he applied.</p>