Anonymous wrote:Just add -- keep your grades up! they will send your first semester transcript.

OP this is the most important part. Grades are key here.

Just add -- keep your grades up! they will send your first semester transcript.

Take fairly standard classes and prepare for transfer this coming fall. Identify colleges they want to attend and why, and start checking on what you need to do to transfer.

It's fairly common OP.

Finish the semester. Drop out and go to community college. Transfer from there. It will save money and there will be a lot more support for transfering. Its a lot easier to write an essay about why you want to transfer to Michigan from a community college, then from Wisconsin to Michigan. (Replace the schools with whichever you’d like)

Transfer deadlines for fall admission are typically around the beginning of March, with rolling notifications. This semester’s grades will be evaluated in addition to last two years of high school, primarily. This also may allow your DC time to evaluate the current situations and explore better options in more depth.

This is not to discount your child's wish to move at all...but I'd make sure they can clearly articulate why they want to transfer, why the current issues can't be resolved over time and with effort, and how they will be able to identify an alternative school that will be a better match. These are important skills to apply to a situation like this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, it's September and my kid already knows they want to transfer. I agree that the school doesn't seem like a great fit. DC is not at a highly competitve school, so that is not an issue.
Are there schools that accept Spring transfers?
If not for Spring, how best to position DC to transfer for next fall? DC won't have any college grades by typical application season so how does that work?
Anyone elses's child btdt?
Thanks for any advice.

Is there another school DC is interested in that they applied to last year and were accepted in? That would be easiest. Otherwise call the transfer office of the school of interest. Freshman year transfers will usually be based on HS record. But have DC do all of this--making transferring a hurdle can ensure it's what they really want.

Definitely would start here. A school they declined may be happy to offer admission for 2nd semester.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, it's September and my kid already knows they want to transfer. I agree that the school doesn't seem like a great fit. DC is not at a highly competitve school, so that is not an issue.
Are there schools that accept Spring transfers?
If not for Spring, how best to position DC to transfer for next fall? DC won't have any college grades by typical application season so how does that work?
Anyone elses's child btdt?
Thanks for any advice.

Is there another school DC is interested in that they applied to last year and were accepted in? That would be easiest. Otherwise call the transfer office of the school of interest. Freshman year transfers will usually be based on HS record. But have DC do all of this--making transferring a hurdle can ensure it's what they really want.

That's good advice to get DC to do the leg work.

Anonymous wrote:Well, it's September and my kid already knows they want to transfer. I agree that the school doesn't seem like a great fit. DC is not at a highly competitve school, so that is not an issue.
Are there schools that accept Spring transfers?
If not for Spring, how best to position DC to transfer for next fall? DC won't have any college grades by typical application season so how does that work?
Anyone elses's child btdt?
Thanks for any advice.

I think they would do better if they had some grades (so a school could evaluate them).

It might also help them to have a little more time. For example, my kid does not drink alcohol. She was a little disappointed her freshman year about how the whole discussion in the cafeteria on Sunday mornings was how wasted everyone got the night before.

In time, though, she found other students who did not drink. They now hang out and have lots of fun. So, perhaps, with time his/her view might soften?
(Either way, I suspect they will have trouble transferring with no grades. THOUGH, if she tries to go to a school that had already accepted her, that might be possible. My nephew did this in the first week of the semester his freshman year. There is a story there, he had not just changed his mind...but the point is when he reached out to the other school--a big state university--they took him.)

Anonymous wrote:Well, it's September and my kid already knows they want to transfer. I agree that the school doesn't seem like a great fit. DC is not at a highly competitve school, so that is not an issue.
Are there schools that accept Spring transfers?
If not for Spring, how best to position DC to transfer for next fall? DC won't have any college grades by typical application season so how does that work?
Anyone elses's child btdt?
Thanks for any advice.

Is there another school DC is interested in that they applied to last year and were accepted in? That would be easiest. Otherwise call the transfer office of the school of interest. Freshman year transfers will usually be based on HS record. But have DC do all of this--making transferring a hurdle can ensure it's what they really want.

Well, it's September and my kid already knows they want to transfer. I agree that the school doesn't seem like a great fit. DC is not at a highly competitve school, so that is not an issue.
Are there schools that accept Spring transfers?
If not for Spring, how best to position DC to transfer for next fall? DC won't have any college grades by typical application season so how does that work?
Anyone elses's child btdt?
Thanks for any advice.