<p>....is it possible? I like my backup college, really, but I feel that with better high school grades I could have gotten into my top choice. My ECs and recs were very strong, and while the school I'm going to is strong academically, it's not really the best school for my major.</p>
<p>That, combined with better course selection and study abroad oppurtunities, makes me want to transfer after my Freshman year. Is this impossible? The deadline for my top school's transfer date is April 1, and my school doesn't get out until mid-to-late May, so how would they see my second semester grades? (The school notifies its transfer applicants starting May 1.) Does this mean that you pretty much HAVE to transfer in as a junior? I plan on making the Dean's List at my school and being really involved in ECs related to my major, like in HS.</p>
<p>Thank you! Oh, and since I know my HS transcript will count more if I'm applying in as a sophmore, so do most schools let you apply again as a transfer if you're rejected a year earlier?</p>
<p>What college or state are you from? CA has one of the best transfer system in place compared to any other state.</p>
<p>If you want to transfer within one year, you can only apply to most private schools and select number of public if any. An example is USC. Once you apply in December, you have to send in your grades immediately after your spring semester's grades are released. USC will than mail you a decision Juneish.</p>
<p>Wow, the UC transfer system sounds really nice. =)
But I'm attending Trinity University in San Antonio and I'm hoping to transfer to GWU in D.C, along with some other schools in the Northeast as well.</p>
<p>Yes, you can transfer after a year. I did to U-M. I gave them one semester of grades. What they usually do if they don't feel that you're up to par yet, is wait until you can provide 2nd semester grades before making a decision. I feel that it's better to transfer as a sophomore rather than a junior because you can fit into your new school better, but that's just preference.</p>
<p>It's absolutely possible to transfer after one year- I just finished my freshman year and I'm successfully transferring (from Sarah Lawrence to Barnard). I was really unhappy and definitely couldn't have stuck it out another year, and I suspect that socially it might be tougher to transfer as a junior. The only caveat is that you definitely need to rock your first semester and make sure that you connect with at least one professor to write you a recommendation. Most schools require a mid-term grade report for your second semester classes where you ask your teachers to give you a tentative grade, and they will consider that in evaluating your application.</p>
<p>Also many schools will let you reapply if you've been previously rejected- some insist that you wait a full academic year to do so, however.</p>
<p>Very common to transfer after one year, as all above have said. You do need good first semester grades, as well as one or two good prof recs. Make sure you get to know some profs well enough to get good recs (speak up in class; visit office hours, .... ).</p>
<p>And, yes. You can reapply for junior transfer if you don't get accepted as a sophomore.</p>
<p>but if you transfer after one year won't admissions officers also look at your hs stats? i know usc does..justwondering if other schools do..if not then yay!</p>
<p>I know it's very brief but how would you estimate my chances be for example with a 3.3 GPA in HS, 1520 M+CR (Dont wanna talk about writing) , and a 4.0 honors in a state school with one year if I were to transfer to Duke..</p>
<p>does anybody know where i can find the acceptance rate of transfers for USC, NYU, UNC, and George Washington. I'm planning to transfer to one of those colleges after my first year.</p>
<p>trojans, if you can't find it on the school's individual website, collegeboard.com has some statistics if you search for individual schools. the only problem is that I am not sure their info is always up to date.</p>
<p>The best transfer acceptance rate information comes from the Common Data Set for each school. You can sometimes find it by googling the school name + Common Data Set. College Board and USN&WR Premium online edition also have it, but you can't always tell what year they are for. Still, it gives you a pretty good idea of the order of magnitude (eg, schools in the 40%+ range and schools in the under 10% range).</p>
<p>Yes, it's definitely possible. I just finished my freshman year, and was just accepted for transfer at the school I will be attending next year. The transfer deadline was March 15, so by that time all I had was first semester grades and my midterm grades fr my second semester classes. That's fine, that's all they want you to send them. I had to send my high school transcript, SAT scores, admissions essay, a graded writing sample, first semester transcript, and a signed form with all of my grades for second semester up to the midterm (and for basically all of my classes, all we had had so far was like one big test, so that was the grade I put). I also had to send a dean's evaluation form, professor recommendations, AP scores, and extracurricular information. After they accept you, you have to mail them the final copy of your transcript with all your official grades on there. The only thing is, admissions as a transfer is generally harder than admissions as a freshman (fewer spots) and if they rejected you as a freshman, is one and a half semesters of college grades enough information to balance out whatever it was that they saw wrong with your app this time around? Especially if you have to get recommendations from professors who barely know you? I applied to the school I'm transferring to last year and was accepted without a problem. You should also look into whether it's possible to study abroad during your sophomore year, because that would be a very good option for you as well. Like, my school for freshman year allows you to study abroad in the spring semester of your sophomore year. So my backup plan was to study at my original school for three semesters, study abroad somewhere in the second semester of my sophomore year and maybe over the summers, and transfer for my junior and senior years to the school I really wanted to be. This is good because you can do whatever study abroad programs at whatever college, so instead of fighting really hard to get to the school you want only to leave it for a semester or a year to study in a different college, you can study abroad while technically enrolled at your original school and then transfer (this was especially lucrative for me because there was a big cost difference between the schools, so it meant studying abroad at the cheaper school's tuition rate versus paying up the wazoo for the other school and doing the same thing I could get for free at my freshman year school. But please remember to keep an open mind, you may end up much more satisfied with your backup school than you anticipate. This is what happens with most people, they get rejected from their top choice and the second best just pales in comparison but then they go there and it's perfect. So be positive, keep an open mind, and good luck!</p>