<p>Yes, you would need to report to schools that you had attended college for a few months, and send those transcripts.</p>
<p>But I disagree that most college would consider you a transfer student. Transfer students are usually students who have at least 30 (but sometimes at least 15) credits earned. Students who dropped out mid-semester would have NO earned credits, so at most places they would likely be treated like a freshman applicant.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>[Harvard[/url</a>] counts you as a transfer after one year.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/transfer]Columbia[/url”>Transfer Applicants | Columbia Undergraduate Admissions]Columbia[/url</a>] says 24 points/credits or about one year of full-time study.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-and-aid/transfer-students.xml]Swarthmore[/url”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-and-aid/transfer-students.xml]Swarthmore[/url</a>] says you are definitely a transfer if you have completed two semesters of full-time study, but that if you have less than that they will consider you on a case-by-case basis.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/admission-information-for-transfer-students.html]University”>https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/admission-information-for-transfer-students.html]University</a> of Georgia](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/eligibility.html]Harvard[/url”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/eligibility.html) considers you a transfer applicant after one year.</p>
<p>[Penn</a> State](<a href=“http://admissions.psu.edu/info/future/transfer/index.cfm]Penn”>Penn State Admissions Information for Transfer Students - Undergraduate Admissions) considers you a transfer applicant if you have attempted 18 or more semester hours.</p>
<p>[Southern</a> Methodist](<a href=“http://www.smu.edu/Admission/Apply/Transfer/AdmissionRequirements]Southern”>Transfer Admission) has two categories of transfer students: “first-year transfers” with less than 30 credit hours to transfer; they need to submit all high school information as well. Then regular transfer students, who have 30+ credits.</p>
<p>So it’s different at different schools, but it seems like many (possibly most) schools are willing to consider you as a first-time freshman applicant if you don’t have a year of college under your belt somewhere else.</p>