<p>Hey all. I'm a current junior at a top liberal arts college looking into transferring to a southern school for my senior year for health reasons. I know it is difficult to do, but do senior transfers happen? How much extra time would be needed to graduate? At the end of this semester I will have 74 credits completed and will be almost done with both my major and my minor. Has anyone had experience with this?</p>
<p>This can be difficult depending on what school(s) you are looking at for transfer. There is one member here who did an extensive search on which schools will accept senior transfers, but I cannot think of the name. You might try spending some time with the search function here on the transfer board.</p>
<p>For some schools (usually the less selective, I think) it is not such an issue. But for others, they will not take you if you have too many credits, even if you are willing to forfeit some.</p>
<p>Don't know if they would make exceptions for health reasons, but that is worth investigating.</p>
<p>I would suggest you check the websites of each school you are considering and get in touch with a Transfer Admissions officer of any which don't usually allow senior transfer to see if they would make an exception in your case.</p>
<p>You should also discuss the possibility of a "Guest Senior Year". Sometimes this is possible. This works something like a "Junior Year Abroad". You would need to pre-arrange with your home school the transfer credits for any coursework required for your major that you would be completing at the other school, as well as transfer of credits for general ed/electives. You would graduate from your home school, not from the new one.</p>
<p>I don't know how common this is anymore. In the last century it was fairly common for women to do this when they decided to move to a different part of the country because they got married. I also knew students who arranged a "Guest Senior Year" in order to study with a particular professor who worked at another college. In one specific case that I recall, an Art History major from Dickinson went to Bryn Mawr for one semester, but ended up staying for her whole Senior year.</p>