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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is that realistic?  Lots of places don’t accept transfers before junior year. [/quote]

I feel like we have had this conversation before, most colleges actually do accept transfers after freshman year. In fact every single kid I know who has transferred, did it after freshman year. Not sure where you're getting this information?[/quote]

+1  I know quite a few kids who transferred to, gasp, a Top 25 school after freshman year.  It is a thing.

The OP's daughter has a sound plan.  She applied to a school as a safety and it turns out that was a good choice to have in place as a backup.  Now she will use her safety school to help her get to her goal school.  Sounds like the OP's daughter is a very smart girl.

Not every path to success is a straight line.  The OP's daughter has figured that out.  Go, girl, go![/quote]

The problem with enthusiastically cheering this on is that most students will not be admitted as a transfer student. Then she's spent a year deliberately not making any connections or looking for reasons to like her school because she believes the transfer is going to happen. If she's one of the many who isn't able to make the transfer, she's likely to be an emotional mess. Better to encourage her to look for reasons to like her first school and see where things are in the spring.[/quote]

Who said anything about deliberately not making connections?  That's your assumption, which makes you the a$$, not me.

I was a transfer student.  I certainly focused on integrating myself into my first school while knowing that I was transferring out.  I didn't talk about it, my parents didn't even know about it, while I was resubmitting my application.  So I kept myself active in my current community while actively pursuing the transfer.  FWIW, I even rushed my first school (and then also my transfer school).  I made good friends at my first school, and one of those friends was even a bridesmaid at my wedding 8 years later.  Furthermore, when I transferred into my highly competitive program, the #1 program in the country for my major, I was one of 9 or 10 transfers.

Transferring into highly competitive schools or programs is a thing.  Get with it and don't let your incorrect assumptions cause you to say dumb things on the internet.[/quote]

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