Apply for a Transfer, or take a Gap Year and Reapply? Advice Please

menloparkmom
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:35:22 +0000

“I’ve decided to apply to around half of the schools I previously did”

OP, It will be a TOTAL waste of your time to reapply again to ANY US college that rejected you. Most top U’s have transfer acceptance rates that are FAR smaller than their rate for Freshman. And application forms DO ask if you have applied before. If the answer is YES, then into the circular file your application goes.
And you need to do some serious research into which colleges, [if there are any] that have many openings for transfer students AND ARE NEED BLIND. I cant think of one and we did a LOT of research. My DS DID transfer successfully from one U to another, more highly ranked U that had ACCEPTED HIM originally as a Freshman. BUT there was NO FA for him as a transfer student.

You need to get over your disappointment and go to college in GB. Seriously.