Here’s the situation; I am a current high school junior whose dream is to attend NYU or a similarly ranked school (Preferably NYU) and I WILL be applying early decision this coming November. However if I don’t make it in for whatever reason I want to try to be a junior transfer there. The reason I don’t think I’ll get in straight from high school is due to the fact that I wasn’t as focused school wise as I should have been my freshman and beginning of my sophomore year in high school which has led to a dramatic drop in my GPA. However since then I have become a lot more focused trying to bring up my GPA. As of the end of my first semester of junior year, my GPA currently sits at 3.73 and rising. That’s not the point of this post though, as even if I do not make it right away I will be transferring. My real question is: Will the AP credit I accumulate in high school come back to bite me when it comes to transfer admission time? Even in the time that I was unfocused in high school I was still taking an excessive amount of AP classes (and passing their tests just getting a few C’s/D’s in the actual classes) which has led me to have 30 college credit. Which as you all know is just short of a year in college. So if I try to transfer as a junior in college will this come to hurt me because I would only have another years worth of actual college classes under my belt, so would colleges look more at my high school transcript than my college transcript at that point when they consider me for transfer?
Sorry for the long post.
TL;DR: Will the more AP credits I receive in high school cause colleges I apply to as a transfer student to look more heavily at my high school transcript?