Transferring first semester

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm an international student at UMass Amherst (Commonwealth Honors college). I'm not really international as I went to High School here, but I'm technically one because of my visa status. I'm extremely unsatisfied and feel like I could be doing more some where else. </p>

<p>I'm pretty confident I'm going to end up with a 3.9 this semester if not a 4.0. (we only have 5 weeks left and I find my classes really easy). On top of that I'm an elected member of the Student Government, serve on a school student committee and am on the debate team. I've got an SAT score of 2120 (Math:760, Writing:700, Reading 660). I ended High School with an unscaled GPA of about 3.1. It's a really respectable High School though. Most of my classmates go to Ivy league schools or top tier liberal arts colleges. Where can I realistically look at getting into?</p>

<p>(these would be the dream really, but if you have better options I'm down)
Universities: Tufts, UCLA, UCSD, UC- Irving Brown, NYU, Cornell, BU </p>

<p>Liberal Arts schools: Vanderbilt, Colby, College of William and Mary, Hamilton, Oberlin, Reed.</p>

<p>I came into UMass with 28 credits which is approximately 2 semesters worth of credit. So this kind of makes me a sophomore. Does this mean I can only apply to transfer this year? Is it decided by how many semesters one physically spends at a school or how many credits worth they have?</p>

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<p>Each college and university sets its own policy about transfers. Some will consider you a transfer if you have earned only one credit at a college/university after finishing high school. Others will let you a apply as a freshman if you have less than a full year of college credit. Likewise, each sets its own policy about college credits earned while still in high school. You really do need to contact each institution separately about this.</p>

<p>To get advice specific to the transfer process, you ought to re-post your questions in the Transfer Forum. You can find it by going to the main page where all of the forums are listed, and scrolling down.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>I’ll post it in the transfer’s section</p>