<p>Does anyone know any schools that offer spring admissions that start in January through March for freshmen students? Not spring admissions for transfer students as many schools do offer that but not many offer admission for freshmen to my knowledge.</p>
<p>A good example would be Middlebury College which seems to have a tradition of admitting a 100 or so students every year to begin in February. Other schools that have it are University of Maryland and a couple of the UCs. Anyone have any idea of any more? :)</p>
<p>Most public universities do. As for private institutions, I don’t know how you could search for that. You will probably need to check each website separately.</p>
<p>Also, many places do not formally advertise that it is OK for freshmen to begin in the spring, but they will arrange for this on a case by case basis.</p>
<p>Berkeley and USC do, but at the school’s choice, not the student’s choice.</p>
<p>At Berkeley, spring admit freshmen have a choice in the fall of attending a special Berkeley Extension program (limited selection of freshman level non-lab courses), attending a community college, or not attending a college at all, before entering in the spring.</p>
<p>@happymomof: Do you know of any specific universities in this case?
Was wondering if this was possible because like you said, the schools I looked up (top 20) did not mention spring admissions for freshmen students at all.</p>
<p>Well, you’ve checked the Top 20, so just keep on going down through whatever list you are working with and check each of them. That really is the only way.</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge, all community colleges, and most public universities admit freshmen for each new term. So if you must start in the winter/spring, check your home-state publics first. </p>
<p>Please remember that most often the financial aid is not as good for spring or summer admits.</p>
<p>Why are you considering this?</p>
<p>Frankly, I don’t like Spring admissions for a few reasons:</p>
<p>1) Schools have their best “welcome weeks” for new freshman in the fall, so kids adjust better.</p>
<p>2) All the new frosh are open to making new friends.</p>
<p>3) the best aid pkgs and scholarships are given to incoming fall freshmen. Spring admits often get worse pkgs.</p>
<p>I’ll add one more to that list of good reasons: housing choices tend to be more limited in the second semester.</p>