Can anyone list colleges that they know admit transfer students as freshmen, provided the student has below a certain number of credits?
No institution worth your time is going to admit a freshman transfer. If you have attended a college anytime after high school, you are no longer a freshman. Most institutions admit jr transfers. Some privates like Harvard and Stanford admit sophomore applicants. If you’re wondering if you can possibly become a “true freshman” after a jr college the answer is no. No matter how many units you have. A W,F,D, NP grade counts.
Yes, some places will require you to use a freshman application if you have earned fewer than X credits (in most of those cases, it is less than a full year of credits), but there is no list of all of those places. You need to check each website separately.
The only school I know that does that is foreign schools like Cambridge in the UK and Tokyo/Kyoto U in Japan. You start at the freshman level no matter how many credits you have currently.