Transfer recommendation

Transfer Students
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<p>If I would like to transfer in the second year of University can I use the same recommendation letters as I did a year earlier?</p>

2

<p>Generally recommendations for transfer need to be from a college professor.</p>

3

<p>I don’t see why not. The same people are recommending you so why do they have to write new letters. It as so troublesome for me to get that part of the application done because some schools wanted a written letter and some school wanted a 3-page form filled out completely. I was lucky because the people who wrote for me were very nice and they were willing to help me all the way.</p>

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<p>This is ambiguous as it’s hard to tell if you plan on applying to transfer during freshman year and attend as a soph or apply as a soph and attend as a jr.</p>

<p>For the former, hj0519 is correct. For the latter, sunkizzed is correct.</p>

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<p>well I’m not sure either, but I guess I would like to transfer my credits from my former university. But if I’m a soph and would like to transfer as junior I have to apply regular right? Because it’s not actually called a transfer anymore…or…?</p>

<p>I’m confused…I’m currently in my last year of high school and plan to attend one year at university X, but I’m positive that after the first year I will have a strong impulse to transfer to the universities where I planned to attend initially, but probably got rejected the first time.</p>

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<p>If you read the sticky thread, Transfer Admissions 101, you’ll see why this is a flawed plan. When you transfer to another school as a soph, you will be applying in the late winter of your freshman year, that means you will have only 1 sem/qt of college work completed and you transfer application will be judged heavily on your HS record and test scores. So, you don’t have a substantially better chance of getting into schools that you were rejected from as a freshman. On top of that, many schools have significantly lower acceptance rates for transfers than for freshman admissions, so it’s even harder to get in. I’m not saying it never happens, but I wouldn’t count on it.</p>

<p>A more realistic plan is to try to transfer as a jr. If you do that, you’ll have a year and a half of college completed when you apply. You will be assessed more on your college record and will have a chance to demonstrate how you have improved over what you did in HS.</p>