<p>I attended a university last year for engineering as a freshman. Unforunantly, due to varius circumstances, (including family issues that I kept going home to deal with) I was not able to focus on my studies and ended up being academically suspended at the end of my freshman year. I am now taking a year off to figure out my life, but I am curious as to whether I should apply to new schools as a transfer student or new freshman student. I am also going to be switching majors from what I studied my failed year of university.</p>
<p>Any guidance and help is very much appreciated!</p>
<p>Did you complete a year of full time college coursework? If so, then you will be considered a transfer applicant at all schools. If less, then you need to check individual college websites and read their definitions of fr & transfer applicant, there is no universal answer for students that have completed less than a year of college.</p>
<p>Either way, you will have to submit transcripts from your first college when you apply.</p>
<p>What counts is how many credits you TOOK, not how many will TRANSFER. </p>
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<p>Yes, but again it’s how many you took, not how many you passed. Some schools consider you a transfer applicant if you took 1 post-HS college class, others have credit limits, and the most generous still consider you a fr applicant if you took LESS than a year of post-HS college coursework.</p>
<p>Again, go to the college websites and read their definitions.</p>