<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>Would these students then graduate in Jan four years later? </p>
<p>I have heard of students at Brown and Franklin & Marshall being accepted to start abroad first semester and then enroll on campus second semester. I assumed the decision was housing-related but do not know if that is true.</p>
<p>@CTFor Middlebury, the students who go in February graduate four years late in February. They don’t play catch up to the fall students but rather work on their own schedule which seems unique.</p>
<p>@trojanchick: Yeah, Berkeley and USC seem to have the same program where they allow spring intake for several students but the admissions office decide rather than the student opting for it.</p>
<p>American University in DC offers spring admission. It also has the Washington Mentorship Program as an alternative, where students live at a nearby branch campus and take classes in the fall, and transition over to the main campus in the spring</p>
<p>There are schools, like Middlebury, that offer Spring Admission to students as an option for students who apply for fall admissions with their class (as HS seniors), but are not accepted to begin the following fall and there are schools such as BU, Northeastern, Vermont, and Syracuse which offer students the option of applying specifically for Spring Admission. Sometimes, students who go to one school in the fall and then withdraw from the school to which they originally matriculated apply elsewhere for Spring Admission. They are not transfer students because they have no college credits, they are freshmen Spring Admits. Other students in this category might be those who do not apply as HS seniors and take a gap semester.</p>
<p>University of Maryland offers Freshman Connection for Fall and regular admission for Spring semester (starts in January). You can opt to skip Freshman Connection and then just start in January. You can read about the Spring admission here: </p>
<p>Actually, Elon also has Spring admits that start on campus in February (without the Gap semester option) but I don’t think at this point someone can “opt in” for that but I could be wrong…</p>
<p>Not sure if the OP is referring to GAP semester options, deferrals of a fall admission, or a Spring admit as an alternative to a waitlist (Like the USC option)…</p>
<p>Or a completely different animal where someone can apply for Spring…</p>
<p>There are several notable football players each year who finish high school a semester early and enroll in their college for the spring semester so that they can attend spring practice.</p>
<p>I think these are probably all state schools, but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>Is it correct that Maryland’s spring admission is school’s choice, like Berkeley and USC, not student’s choice?</p>
<p>It is not hard to see why some schools have school’s choice spring admission – they want to balance the student population in the fall and spring semesters. Normally, fall semester has higher enrollment, due to students graduating a semester early or late, or dropping out after a fall semester, or taking a spring semester off in a co-op job. If the school is enrolled to capacity in the fall semester, it has unused extra capacity in the spring semester. Better to start some freshmen in the spring to use the otherwise unused capacity.</p>
<p>American University has a program that admits student for the spring semester. It also offers students admitted for spring the chance to come to school in the fall (in a separate dorm) and they have the ability to intern and take some classes in the evening.</p>
<p>The school that best fits my question would probably be Middlebury College and Colby College where students can specifically apply for spring admittance as a freshmen, not where students transfer in the spring or start as a spring admit as a waitlist (a la Berkeley and USC).</p>
<p>To be clear - you are looking for schools to which you can apply in the fall of your senior year of high school directly to a freshman program which begins in the spring semester of the following year, like Middlebury College’s February Program. Middlebury offers that as a stand-alone option, as well as offering it to some students who apply for September admission. </p>
<p>Syracuse University, for example, offer Spring Admissions for freshmen, and it’s website implies that this option is available to high school applicants as well as transfer students. It is not clear whether the student applies during his/her senior year, or in the fall after graduating from high school. It specifically offers a January Orientation and on-campus housing. It might be worth investigating other schools that offer Spring Admit for freshmen, even if they do not have discrete programs, like Middlebury. As mentioned previously, schools which offer a Spring Admissions option for freshmen include GW, American, BU, Northeastern, Vermont, Syracuse, Connecicut College, amongst others.</p>