<p>My daughter attended a college for a semester and dropped out. She has since been working and also taken some community college courses. She feels ready to go back to school and wants to apply to the UCs.</p>
<p>But she only has two options: applying as a freshman, or as a transfer student, which she can only do if she has enough credits to apply as a junior. She doesn't want to wait because she wants the more challenging curriculum at Berkeley. If she applies as a freshman, she will have to not mention having attended college elsewhere.</p>
<p>What to do? And what are the consequences if she applied as a freshman?</p>
<p>I think that is illegal haha to not mention that she’s taken classes elsewhere. But then again, how would anyone know? I’m studying abroad and I’m not telling my university that I’m taking classes elsewhere and they will never find out. But that university is out of the country…</p>
<p>I had heard an ugly rumor that if you applied as freshman when you had attended college elsewhere and don’t mention it on your application, the university will drop you when they find out, regardless of how many years you have spent there, paid tuition, and gotten credits. That is why this post. </p>
<p>In the US, most colleges have your social security number, so if they run “routine checks” with various colleges, they in theory could find out.</p>
<p>yeah, idk I mean at the time of applying, it seems all serious and worth worrying about, but then again, if you think about it from a distance, would they really check all colleges? I don’t think so but it might not be a risk you want to take.</p>
<p>[University</a> of California - Completing the application](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/completing-application/index.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/completing-application/index.html) </p>
<p>Applicants are required to report coursework from all institutions they have attended. Failure to submit complete information may jeopardize an applicant’s chances for admission, and will result in the cancellation of an admission offer if it later becomes known that the applicant did not do so, even if he or she withdrew from a course before a grade was earned.</p>
<p>I know at least two people who have applied to colleges as freshmen when they had community college classes they didn’t want to deal with, and both were fine. So far. If they’re caught that’s bad, but it’s unlikely the schools will check. But if they do, it’s bad. So, it’s really up to her if she wants to take the risk. I THINK there may be a way to apply as a freshman and list the community college classes (as long as she’s done well in them of course), but, I’m not certain on that o:</p>
<p>Most universities look at whether you took any college courses after graduating from high school to determine if you should apply as a freshman or transfer.</p>
<p>Oddly, the Berkeley and UC web sites do not obviously have any definition of what students must apply as freshmen or transfers, so you may want to ask directly.</p>