<p>My son applied to transfer as a freshman for the spring because he hates his current school. Apps were due by Nov 1 and he had his in the week before. School site say "Transfer applicants receive an admission decision approximately four weeks after receipt of application and official transcripts. Applicants for mid-year admission, both freshmen and transfers, are notified by December 1." He turned his in on Oct 28, so we are just over 4 weeks. Nothing yet. My other son is transferring with his associates and was re-applying because he opted to do another semester of CC after being accepted. With his associates he gets priority and heard within a week from the same school.</p>
<p>My son is not a strong applicant. I make these assumptions, if they loved his app he'd have heard by now,and, if they knew there was no way they'd take him he'd have heard. Is this reasonable? It is a NJ state University and yes they take transfers at any level, with priority to those with more credits.</p>
<p>Is not hearing yet more likely that a denial is coming and they just wait until the end to send them, or (to my thinking) they still had some in the pile and wanted to see if there are any better than him? Do they send rejections early or hold them?</p>
<p>I also make an assumption that as a freshman he is not really competing with the sophs and jr transfers because he will need different classes. If there are freshman seats that weren't taken maybe there is room for him. </p>
<p>How many fresh want to transfer in mid year?</p>
<p>I am so nervous because he really wants it and the options if he doesn't get in are not easy to choose between. Added complication is that he wants to play football, so spending too much time at CC is not an option, but one semester is doable. Is it ok to transfer to CC and then again to the State U? There is another private school he can transfer to, but unclear if he'd like it much better than the current one.</p>
<p>I'm just thinking about it constantly...decisions have to be made and I am full of "if this and if that" I don't think it's helping him any, I know he has to be thinking about it too.</p>