I am currently a student at the pr-university program at Peking University. I applied to colleges this past year (I am still considered to be a high school student/grad, not a college student yet), and I’m regretting not applying to one college in particular: UW. I did get into WSU with financial aid and I am wondering if it would make more sense to go to WSU first for a year then transfer, or to stay at the pre-university program for another year and apply to go to UW. I am not keen on the second option just because I was only planning to be here for one year then go to college, but I’m also wondering if going to WSU first will hurt my chances of getting into UW as a transfer student, as well as my overall college experience, academic or otherwise. I am at a crossroads, and any advice would be appreciated.
P.S. I’m not overly concerned about getting into UW in general, I was accepted this year to USC, UBC, and waitlisted at Williams for reference, but those were not feasible options unfortunately, based on my financial situation.