<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I plan on withdrawing from my college and I would like to know if I reapply to colleges for the Fall 2012 semester, would I be considered a freshman applicant or transfer? I am withdrawing before the 8 week deadline so I won't receive "W" grades or anything.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I hope someone answers my question I really need to know.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll probably have to post somewhere else because no one knows.</p>
<p>why don’t you just finish the semester? Why waste money and time? When your next school asks what you’ve been doing, my guess is dropping out of college won’t be what they want to hear. Unless there is something to explain this that is relevant and really important, my suggestion would be to gut it out.</p>
<p>You might want to wait more than an hour on a Sat morning before excessively bumping your thread and complaining because people don’t answer.</p>
<p>@Swimmer726 I didn’t want to finish the semester because I know I am going to fail. I wasn’t prepared for this heavy course load. I am also very miserable here. I get no sleep, I study all the time, and I continue to fail because I am lost and I am not grasping the information at the pace it is being taught. I also found that the field that I am going into is just not meant for me anymore. My school is pretty specialized in what they offer and I would rather be at a university that has more offerings. I do not want to fail, pay thousands in loans, and be miserable at this school. I plan on doing something productive until I enroll in school again next year. I just didn’t identify it yet.</p>
<p>In order to help other people that I going through a similar situation, I did some calls and I will be considered a transfer applicant even though I won’t have any grades from my current institution. :-)</p>
<p>^This is not a universal truth, the definition of a transfer applicant varies by school and can range from 1 post-HS college class to less that a full year of post-HS college coursework.</p>
<p>Good luck to you. I don’t have an answer, but this must be difficult for you.</p>
<p>Thank you kinderny. I appreciate that.</p>
<p>Thanks for informing me of that entomom. Two schools told me they consider me a transfer and I will make sure to call some other schools that I am considering to make sure that they consider me a transfer as well. They said that I am considered transfer because I have enrolled in a college after high school. They said they will pretty much evaluate me based on my high school coursework. They want me to send my transcript from my high school and the school that I am going to now just to prove that I was previously enrolled somewhere else.</p>
<p>May I ask what you are studying? I imagine it’s a STEM major as they tend to flood you with info right at the beginning.</p>
<p>Some schools will consider you a transfer and others won’t. Honestly, you can probably get away with not even reporting that school because you didn’t receive any grades from them. It would definitely be dishonest if you got a WF or an F in a class not to disclose that, but a W really doesn’t count as a grade.</p>
<p>vloria…I remember your past posts. You’re engineering at RPI, right? And you’re responsible for the Plus Loans that your parents signed. </p>
<p>I’m concerned because as a transfer student, you’re going to get less aid.</p>
<p>Even though you’re withdrawing without the W you still have to pay for the semester, right?</p>
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<p>That’s pretty harsh, I always figured that you had to either complete or have a W in classes to actually be considered as having attended. Were you sure to tell them that you withdrew before the deadline and won’t have grades or Ws for these classes?</p>