<p>I will be attending UConn this fall and want to transfer out after my first or second year. </p>
<p>Will UConn help me leave their school or will they be irked that I am trying to GET OUT!?</p>
<p>Community colleges do… probably a lot less likely with four year schools.</p>
<p>They’ll do the things they have to - send records, etc. They won’t help you find another school.</p>
<p>I’ve seen this kind of question coming up more frequently. Is this some kind of new trend - entering a college with the explicit expectation of transferring after your first or second year? Why would you do that?</p>
<p>Save money by going to a fairly cheaper college and then transfer out to a school that may be more expensive but you really want to go to.</p>
<p>anyone else besides this scammer lol</p>
<p>What kind of help are you expecting? As noted, transcripts will be sent, perhaps for a fee. You will need recommendations from professors, but that will be a function of your relationship with them. Beyond that, your transfer efforts are of no concern to your college. My S transferred after his freshman year (made a bad ED choice), and the first college didn’t know he was going elsewhere until we sent them an email to that effect after he’d deposited at his new school. They didn’t even ask where he was headed or why he was leaving.</p>
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<p>That is quite common, but mostly in the context of starting at a community college. Did you get enough scholarships and grants to make University of Connecticut less expensive than a community college?</p>
<p>Hey, kobe, I’m in the same situation. Yes, all of you, I am entering college with the explicit intent to transfer because my interests have changed and the college I will be going to isn’t excellent in my field.</p>
<p>So I’m guessing no academic advisers are going to really support me… and how do you even approach your professor for a recommendation? I have a great reason to transfer, but it’s still a delicate situation.</p>
<p>What I meant about help was that if my advisors will help me structure my schedule so that I can meet the requirements for the college I want to go to.</p>
<p>I don’t think that college advisors (or at least most of them) would work to structure a program to allow you to easily transfer. The requirements to transfer would be different for every student, every major, every school. I would suggest that you find out what courses you should take in order to transfer to the program/school you want and schedule yourself accordingly. I would also keep in mind the requirements of your current school because: (1) transfers don’t always work out as hoped (either in terms of acceptance and/or affordability); (2) you may find you love the school you are at and the people you meet there; or (3) you may change minds as to major and find that you are in a good place already.</p>
<p>If you’re trying to go to a highly selective school, you’ll need recommendations from your professors at the first school. Yes, there’s a bit of a conflict of interest there, and the more a professor loves you, the sadder s/he may be that you want to leave. But professors that care about you will help you.</p>
<p>The trick is that you need professors who care about you, and they also need to be impressed with your academic performance.</p>
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<p>You need to check to see if your target school has pre-articulated course listings for your source school. This is most common with state universities with respect to same-state community colleges, although some universities have listings for other source schools.</p>
<p>For example, [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) can be used if your target school is a California public university and your source school is a California community college. <a href=“http://www.transfer.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.transfer.org</a> can be used for some other target schools. Other schools list articulations directly on their web sites (search for “transfer credit”).</p>
<p>Advisors and faculty at community colleges are likely to be more helpful with preparing for transfer, since that is common and expected, and most community college transfers go to same state public universities.</p>