Is Spring Semester required for Transfer Applications?

aunt_bea
Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:40:09 +0000

ucbalumnus:

If you will be transferring with fewer than 60 credits, then your high school record as well as your college record will be important.

This is a very good point. Make sure to seek the advice of the schools that you hope to transfer to. I agree that you need to pick up the phone and call those schools.

Also, if you plan on reapplying to the schools that rejected you, save some time and money by avoiding reapplying to those schools. They made their decision, and they’re not going to change that original decision.

Taking a handful of courses at another university, isn’t going to change an original admissions decision. The universities build their classes based on a theme that they see within accepted students. Every year, a different “highlight” appears within the applicants. No one knows what that is. It changes yearly.

Also, remember that transfers tend to get less financial aid funding. The universities are tight with their budgets and use their funding to attract freshman level students. Transfers, don’t get that advantage.

You may just want to take a semester off to save money, work a job, and re-orient your ideas about what you want in a future university.

Make sure you completely withdraw from your current school because you will be billed for everything if you forget to officially withdraw.

They will bill you for classes, even if you didn’t take them. Then, they hold onto your transcript until the bill is paid. What that means is that any university, that you plan to transfer to, will expect a transcript. Your university does not have to provide it, if there is an outstanding bill.