<p>For various reasons (it's complicated) I believe I will have to stay three years at the new school I'm transferring to in order to fulfill my professional goals. </p>
<p>I know that if not enough transfer credit "transfers" then I'll be put back a year anyway, but what if enough credit does transfer to put me at junior standing? Does anyone have experiences from what class standing you're put in to give some thoughts and advice on this? Is this individualized by school? Would I be able to confirm with the academic office before sending in my deposit (this would be a factor that would make me extremely reluctant to deposit in a school that wouldn't permit me to stay three years, regardless of other factors - as I said it's complicated)? If the transferring process works out the schools I'm going for are generally either top 15's or NYU.</p>
<p>It depends on the school whether or not they’ll allow you to stay for 3 years. At most schools, it shouldn’t be a problem though. An increasing number of students are taking more than 4 years to graduate.</p>
<p>Basically I’m switching professional/career tracks however my desired professional track will require me to have three full years remaining for me to pursue because of the way its system works.</p>
<p>Bump - anyone else have thoughts? I feel this is an issue that a significant amount of people may be wondering about, and although it may be individualized in a way by college nonetheless some people’s experiences/stories with it may be of help to those in this current situation.</p>
<p>It’s an interesting question, indeed.
It definitely depends on the school.
However, I’m more inclined to wonder why transfer students at some institutions are limited to graduating within 4-6 semesters (depending when they transferred in), while students that enter in as freshmen do not have that limit and are allowed to continue past a 4th year, and even do study abroad.
I can’t help but think that schools announce the limit, but that internally its not a problem to stay a bit longer to graduate; it might be to dissuade individuals from transferring only for the name of a schools, and trying to get the whole experience that they think they missed out by not being a freshman admit.</p>
<p>I definetly know people who have been at university longer than two years after transfering (I’m one of them, afte falling ill one year, and took this spring of to do something which will help my future employment, our office is touchy about mentioning we work in here public, nothing too exciting though). So year, while most say you can’t, I’ve never seen or heard of any place really enforcing it.</p>
<p>It is unusual for a college to require that you finish within only two years. It is much more common to require that you stay until you fulfill all of the requirements for your degree program. Pity the poor BFA design majors who transfer in from a BA art program: they often are required to spend four full years because of the nature of the program they join!</p>