Have you ever seen a case where someone transferred to another college for their 4th year of schooling?

Question

Right now I'm in my first year of community college and plan on transferring after next year to a private university -- not a state school. I'm in community college due to money constraints, to refine my studying skills and hopefully get some scholarship money. I want to transfer to a university so i can prove i do well in a more competitive atmosphere. I plan on staying at this particular university for a year. Then i plan on applying to another, more prominent university. By the time i apply to the more prominent university i will have been in my third year of schooling transitioning into my 4th year -- which is customarily around the time students graduate. Have you seen a case like this? Do you think my going to community college will make more of a reason for the more prominent university's admissions to not accept me? Even if i plan on commiting to the more prominent university for two years -- which tallies up to 5 years of undergrad?

Is it unattractive to graduate admissions (namely law school) that i switched colleges three tmes for my undergrad schooling?

Answer 1

I wouldn't advise jumping around after you've gone to university. Admissions boards have no problem with a community college for the first year or two, especially if your grades are as close to 4.0 as possible. After that, go to the best school you can, and stay there. Otherwise you look indecisive and flighty no matter how good your grades are.

There is nothing wrong with a public college, either, as long as it is well-regarded and you have good grades. Law schools understand that not everyone can afford Harvard undergrad. Save your tuition money for law school -- it's outrageously expensive!!!

Good luck!

Answer 2

Law schools won't care too much about the community college part.

What will look bad is you transferring to the private, and then going to another school.

Practically, you're taking a pretty big risk since you're assuming you'll be accepted in two different situations.

Law schools will wonder why you transferred twice (so far, you don't have a good reason). They'll wonder what's wrong with you. Can you not handle school? Are you a serial jumper. Why offer admission to you if you'll just transfer if you're able.

Answer 3

I've jumped around transferred to different schools few times.. However, everytime I transfer to some school i lost a large amount of credits because it didn't transfer to that school. So my best advice is to stick with your community college get a GPA as close to 4.0 as possible and then get into the best possible school you can get in and get a 4.0 there. That way it will be easy for you to get admission to law school. Not all state colleges are bad, U of MI is good for a public college. I know one girl got into their pre med / medical school with full scholarships from community college because she had 4.0 GPA .. your target should be 4.0 in your community college and then the next best school out there .. rather than jumping around and wasting time..

PS: you should check with your ultimate desired school for undergrade admission and see what is the highest amount of credit they will take .. some universities don't accept any more than 60 credits some can take as much as 90. Many good schools have large scholership fundings, so you should check with their financial aid department too.

Answer 4

I suggest doing 2 years at the community college. Make the best grades possible, get involved in curricular activities and clubs, and an internship will help. Then apply directly to that prominent university. Don't apply to a college you don't really want.

Answer 5

most schools require that you complete at least 60 credit hours of coursework at their institution before they will allow you to graduate with a degree. this means that few people decide to transfer in the 4th year because they will have to complete 2 years of studies at the new school. you'll also have to check with the individuals schools to which you're applying to ensure that they even allow this.

as far as law school admissions go, i don't think that it's great that you'll have gone to 3 different schools, but as long as you hav a solid application (great lsat score and cumulative gpa) i don't really think that it matters all that much. in my experience going through the application process, they really care much more about your cold statistics than your educational background. obviously i don't mean that going to the worst state school in the country and graduating with a 4.0 is treated the same as going to harvard, but for most average applicants who have gone to good but not excellent schools, it doesn't really matter if person A went to a school ranked #40 and person B went to a school ranked #60. what i do think is important for you to know, though, is that you do absolutely have to send transcripts every EVERY school that you have ever taken a class at to the LSAC board when you're doing your applications. Failing to do that is an ethical violation potentially sanctionable by the bar

Answer 6

I don't know how much you have looked into this, but all the transferring around might cost you more money than you think...not all of your courses always transfer, so you end up taking replacement classse; time and money. I'm not sure why you want to do this unless you just want to be able to say "I graduated from (insert name of prominent university here)"

Answer 7

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Answer 8

check with the school you are planning to transfer to for your 4th year to make sure you can do this because some will not let you earn a degree unless you have complete a certain number of hours at that school and it is usually more than what is required for the final year.

Answer 9

If the reason for the multiple transfers was because you constant had failing grades thus leading to you being on academic suspension, then yes this doesn't look good. What exactly were the reasons for the constant move?