<p>I just finished my 5th semester at college right now and I want to transfer for Fall 2009 (I'll be on study abroad Fall 2008 - Spring 2009). Will that be too late or does it depend on how many transferable credits I have????? Or does that depend on the school???? Would it make a difference if I decided not to go on exchange????
I'm looking at American Studies at Columbia (puhleeeeeeeeeeeezz god i promise to be the good kid i never was), Berkeley, Stanford, Yale and NYU (and maybe more coz im still looking - im leaning toward American Studies but then again i want to keep my options open for other traditional majors too).</p>
<p>oh and if stats help at all i have a 3.8/4.0ish gpa in international studies 770/770/800 sats 800 bio 800 math level 2 and 740 lit satIIs. (four 5s and one 4 on APs but not sure if they really count..)</p>
<p>Slooooow down. You are probably just fine. Many transfer applications won’t be due until next spring (though be sure to research each school - some will be due early this fall).</p>
<p>What you should do is go onto the website for each place you are wanting to submit a transcript and read through their application process, including due dates. You may want to throw a safety school into your list - while your stats are good andyour study abroad is very interesting - Berk/Stan/Yale/Columbia and etc should never been seen as easy to get into, even with stellar stats. For example, Stanford’s transfer rate the past few years has been about 1% (20 transfer students max per year).</p>
<p>Each school will have its own set of expectations about number of credits. All of this information is usually easy to find on their respective websites. The CC board is probably a better format to ask some of those sticky questions that are hard to find an answer vs. expecting the board to lay out all the due dates, etc! Also - whenever a question gets too detailed and not easy to find and you’ve exhausted all your resources, including CC, then contact the college directly. (Also, you should double check ALL information you get on CC - mistakes have been made!).</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement. I actually did look at some of the sites. I just wanted to know how many people transfer in their 7th semester, which seems a little late compared to most other people here (sophomores/juniors)?</p>
<p>The question of if you have too many transfer credits is highly individual for each college. Some schools might be out of the running, others won’t care. Again, a little surfing online should yield the information.</p>
<p>From the Yale website:
“To be eligible to transfer, students must, by June of the current academic year, have a high school diploma or GED and at least one year and no more than two years of transferable post-secondary-school college credit.”</p>
<p>From the Stanford website:
“Transfer students are required to complete at least two years of full-time enrollment at Stanford in order to attain a bachelors degree from the university.”</p>
<p>So, Y is out, S is questionable. I can’t quite understand why you would want to transfer after your 7th of 8 semesters?? It is highly unusual, most students applying for transfers to the schools you’ve listed do so after just one or two years, so that they will have at least 2 years at their new school.</p>
<p>Stanford doesn’t seem to have restrictions on "too many “semesters” - google “Carla Baku” for articles on her experience - she’s a transfer student who took 11 years to get through community college. The article doesn’t say the number of units, however. I’ve read articles about or met in person a handful of Stanford transfers - they seem to have several spots available for “outside of the box” type of students. Downside is they only take about 20 total for transfers. </p>
<p>Most of the elite colleges will ONLY accept 60 credits of transfer. So yeah you can transfer but you’ll be probably a lower priority I would think or wont get as many transfer credits as you actually have in credits. That would probably not be the smartest or most fiscally responsible thing to do, but if those issues dont matter then go through the 5 year plan and get 60 credits of your 90-100 credits to transfer and then take another 2 years of classes.</p>
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<p>I believe the maximum for Colubmia is also 60. </p>
<p>I know that does not directly affect your question, but if you can only transfer a certain number of credits it might be more beneficial to stay where you are.</p>
<p>Still trying to figure out why you don’t finish your last semester at your current school and then apply for grad school at one of these other schools??</p>
<p>5th semester? That’s halfway through junior year. So yes, too late. Especially now that you’re going abroad. By the time you come back from abroad, assuming that all credits transfer, you’ll be on your last semester anyway. Why suffer through another 4 semesters/2 years when you could’ve graduated already?</p>
<p>You CAN make it through ONE more year. You can always go to these schools for a MA in American Studies.</p>
<p>Just finish up and get your degree from wherever you are.</p>