Transferring and Possibly Taking a Gap Semester

Ruler7777
Sun, 09 Aug 2020 22:53:38 +0000

Hi all, I am a student from California that has recently completed 2 years of undergrad at a California Community College, and I planned to transfer to a 4 year school for Fall 2020. I will be honest with myself however, I feel as if I did not put as much thought into the schools I applied to as I should have, and I’m not exactly excited about the school that I admitted myself to to say the least. Also, with the pandemic going on, my entire semester will be online which just adds to the fact that this semester will really just be a repeat of the last semester at my 2 year. I have seriously been considering withdrawing for a semester, and reapplying to schools for Spring 2021, this time with much more focus on where I truly might want to attend.

I had talked to a counselor at the college that I so far will be attending, and she was completely understanding of my situation, and said that taking a gap semester would not be a detriment to me when applying to colleges in Spring, which further has swayed me to consider not going this Fall. However there is still another question I had that I thought I could ask here on these forums. Another major reason I have been thinking about not attending college this fall is because I’ve heard that it is much harder to transfer from a 4 year to another 4 year college, and that community college students get priority when transferring. I was wondering however, if I opt out of my current 4 year college now, will I still have to list it as a place I attended when applying for transfer in the future? In other words, would I be considered a student transferring from a 4 year rather than a community college, even if I end up not attending this 4 year college this Fall?

I guess I should mention that I admitted myself to a CSU for Fall 2020, and I will most likely try to transfer to another CSU in the future (although a UC is not out of the picture).