Best Year To Transfer

jmmom
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:02:06 +0000

As others have said, we would need to hear more about your hs and college records to help you guess (which is all it would be) which year would be better for your chances of acceptance. As to re-taking SATs, that is a personal decision, again dependent upon what scores you already hold and whether you took the old or new SAT. Assuming you took the new, it is highly unlikely that you would be REQUIRED to re-take; it would be up to you whether you think a re-take would help you. Even that answer will likely vary depending on schools. Since you are considering several schools, you will need to make a spreadsheet of who requires/doesn’t require SATs, whether it varies for soph/jr transfer apps and who does/doesn’t allow re-takes at this point.

As to which is better socially and for acclimation, there are pros and cons to each. It again depends on you and the school. Going as a sophomore gives you three years at the new place. Going as a junior at some schools gives you more of a critical mass of new transfers to bond with, if the school tends to have a lot of auto-admits from state cc’s.

So, take a look at how many transfers each school admits, whether they get a lot of cc transfers for junior year. And then just make your own decision. There is no right answer. The most important answer re meeting and feeling part of the new school is what others have said above - get involved.

Best of luck.