A. Nearly all four-year colleges accept transfer students, reports Peterson's. While there are exceptions, in all likelihood, the college that you intend to attend will accept transfer students. Not accepting transfer students would put a school at a financial disadvantage, making it unlikely that an institution would elect to do so.
A. The date by which your application must be filed varies from school to school and term to term. Check with the admissions office of the school to which you plan to transfer at the beginning of the term prior to the semester in which you intend to transfer to ensure that you don't miss the application window and end up experiencing a delay.
A. If you enter college planning on transferring, check with the school to which you intend to transfer regularly to ensure that the courses you are taking at your current school will transfer. If you contact the admissions department of the school you plan to transfer to, they will set you up with an adviser who can go over your intended courses and ensure that they will all successfully transfer before you invest the time and money in completing the courses. If you do not initially intend on transferring, but instead decide to do so at a later date, you may have some courses that do not transfer. While this is obviously undesirable, there is nothing that you can do to make the courses transfer.
A. Figures indicate that students who begin at a community college before transferring to a four-year school actually do better academically, reports Peterson's. While there are no proven reasons for this increased academic performance, some attribute it to the fact that the students received a basic introduction to college prior to jumping in feet first, preparing them for the college experience.