Help! Transfer or Freshman?

Transfer Students
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<p>Can someone help me figure out my classification before I begin my applications? </p>

<p>I am about to be a senior in high school but I am graduating at Mid-Term (a semester early). I want to go to Texas State University in the fall of 2014. I am trying to find some way that I can live off campus in my own apartment and Texas State does allow their transfer students to live off campus, but am I a transfer student?</p>

<p>Through a community college, I have received dual credit for both HS and college. By the time I graduate I think I will have 24 credit hours. Assuming these are all transferable, will I be considered a transfer student and will I be able to live off campus? These ( [2013-2014</a> University Housing Policy : Department of Housing and Residential Life : Texas State University](<a href=“http://www.reslife.txstate.edu/Policies-and-Conduct/university-housing-policy/2013-2014-University-Housing-Policy0.html]2013-2014”>http://www.reslife.txstate.edu/Policies-and-Conduct/university-housing-policy/2013-2014-University-Housing-Policy0.html) ) are their requirements but I am having trouble understanding.
I technically will have graduated in Dec. 2013 or Jan. 2014 but I will not yet be 20. Does that mean if I get more than 30 credit hours, I can live off campus? It is very important that I do, for personal reasons. Can someone give me advice on how to be able to live off campus? Or do I need to stay at the community college for another year before I can do so?
Thank you!</p>

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<p>New students who graduate high school in the year prior to enrolling must live on campus regardless of age and hours.</p>

<p>That is a quote from the web page you linked. You would probably need to either take a gap year or ask for an exception if you really want to off campus.</p>

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<p>Only post-HS college coursework counts towards being a transfer applicant.</p>

<p>You are both a fr applicant and have graduated HS in the year prior to enrolling, so no dice for living off campus at the current time.</p>

<p>Call the school and talk to them, there is always the possibility they will make an exception if your reasons are strong enough, and you have nothing to lose by asking. If that doesn’t work, you best bet may be to go to a CC for a year:</p>

<p>[Getting</a> Accepted: Transfers with 1-29 Hours : Welcome to Undergraduate Admissions : Texas State University](<a href=“http://www.admissions.txstate.edu/future/transfer/getting-accepted-1-29.html]Getting”>http://www.admissions.txstate.edu/future/transfer/getting-accepted-1-29.html)</p>

<p>It says you can go for as little as a sem (not including summer), but you also have to finish your credits before the deadline, which is Nov 15, so that’s not possible since the fall sem ends in mid Dec.</p>