<p>I'm an International Transfer Student applying for the Need-Blind universities (aka Harvard, MIT, Yale, etc.). I'm on process of registering for the TOEFL, but I have problems about deciding where to send my scores because of bureaucratical problems:</p>
<p>My doubt is about transfer or freshman eligibility. Every university/college have the same policy, or that's what I thought until Yale university confused me. On their website it is written: "If you have at least one year and no more than two years of transferable post-secondary-school college credit, then you should apply as a transfer student." That's all very confusing. I'm going to enter college in my country (Spain) this Fall. By the time I would enter an USA university (fall again), I would have completed a full academic year in my local university (UPC). Does that mean I am eligible for freshman at Yale, because by the time of application I haven't completed a term? The MIT, for example, specifies that I cannot apply as a freshman because, as I said, by the time of entering I would have completed a year. </p>
<p>The core of the question is: Could you help me with the transfer eligibility in the Full-Need financial meeting universities for internationals? I have clear only the MIT (where I should apply as a transfer), but I have no clue about the other ones (Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Franklin & Marshall...), despite desperately looking onto their websites. Does anybody who has entered them know about this aspect? Could someone help me on this? I would appreciate any kind of help very much.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>PD: Even though it is not a Need-Blind nor a Full-Need university, I would also appreciate very much if someone could tell me the eligibility regarding Standford University. Thanks again.</p>
<p>Colleges are NOT all the same in who they consider a fr or transfer applicant. The definition of a transfer applicant can vary from having taken 1 post-HS college class to having LESS than a year of full time college coursework. </p>
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<p>For any school, the number of units/time that counts is when you ENTER the transfer school, not when you APPLY. By the time you enter, you will have completed a full year of college, so you would be considered a transfer applicant at ANY US college.</p>
<p>Hm, I did not know about the variance between transfer-regarding criteria of diferent universities. Maybe I should take a deeper look on their respective websites.</p>
<p>Anyway, I still think MIT, Harvard, Yale, F&M and Dartmouth meet your full financial need even for transfers, don’t they? </p>
<p>Regarding TOEFL, it is true that all USA universities require it for international students? I know this is not this section’s topic but it is just a little question whose answer whould help me a lot.</p>
<p>I’m quite confused still, however. You can see at Harvard’s website that: “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.)”. When is that date of matriculation? Here in Spain we finish University by Mid-June or Early July. If the matriculation date is before that, that means I should apply as a freshman. Does this work the same way in the other universities (MIT, Yale)? Particularly at MIT they say “by the time of entrance”. Is that the matriculation date, or the start classes date? I’m pretty confused, because I wouldn’t like to apply as a transfer and then discover I can’t enter because I should have applied in another condition.</p>
<p>About the short end and far end, what does that mean? I’m sorry but I’m not familiar with the USA educational system neither its financial policy. Does short-end mean that they try to cover your necessities, but they don’t assure to do it entirely?</p>
<p>Pleas, I would need some more help. This starts to seem a bureaucratical mess. I appreciate very much your given info so far, but I’m afraid I need more data.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, my fault. I did not quite understand your reply first, but after re-reading it a few times I think I understand.</p>
<p>Short-end means that they consider you as a transfer if, by the time of entrance/matriculation (still don’t know in which universities they refer to one or other, I would still need help here), you would have completed more than a term.</p>
<p>Far-end means that they consider you as a transfer if by the time you apply you have completed more than 1 year of college study.</p>
<p>Am I right, or I’m missing something again?</p>
<p>Please forgive my uncomprehension, I’m not very familiar with this.</p>
<p>Not a problem. if I could speak Spanish as well as you speak English, I might have cause for complaint, but I don’t :). And, it is confusing.</p>
<p>The date of matriculation is when you START attending the new school. So, if you apply as a transfer for fall 2014, you matriculate in fall 2014. The amount of post-HS college coursework will be counted to that point, not at the point when you apply. And, even if you are accepted as a transfer before you finish your fr year in college, you will be expected to keep up your grades and your acceptance could be rescinded if you don’t.</p>
<p>There is a RANGE in the amount of post-HS college work at which time a college will require you to apply as a transfer rather than as a fr applicant.</p>
<p>This range goes from 1 post-HS college class to a full year of post-HS college work. And in between there are colleges that have credit limits where you will need to apply as a transfer. So, if you took 1 post-HS college class, GWU would require you to apply as a transfer applicant, while H would let you apply as a fr; for other colleges, it would vary depending on their policy.</p>
<p>To make it simpler for your specific situation–if you are going to complete a full year of college in Spain after finishing HS, any U.S. college will consider you a transfer applicant.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for the response, now I find everything much more clear.</p>
<p>I have to apply to every place as a transfer so I’d better be careful with the Financial Aid policies as I can’t pay that huge load of money for the top-rank universities. I know MIT and Harvard will still cover my necessities, but I will have to look in deeply in the others.</p>
<p>I will also have to look which ones require the TOEFL and which ones not (I have a B in the CAE british council exam).</p>