<p>I was wondering if you could do that, I heard only 60 credits will be taken, but I don't know how it works. I was looking at bu to transfer after junior year, because after soph year my gpa is only 2.6 and i just declared finance as a major, and need to take the core classes in it. i have almost all gen eds done in 2 years, with 55 credits after soph year.</p>
<p>So would they look at the whole gpa, and take only the last 60 credits, or only the gpa of the last 60 credits, or can you choose which credits to transfer, or is it not possible? i got into bu out of hischool, but how much would that help? the website says the avg transfer gpa is 3.5 and i could get mine to 3.0 overall end of junior year, but I don't really know how it works</p>
<p>As far as I know, once you start doing upper division work such as the major courses for finance, most schools will not let you transfer. Generally as a business major, you do your general ed and the prereq business classes before transferring. bus 101, micro/macro econ, financial/mgerial accounting, stats, calc 1 or 2 etc.</p>
<p>Two universities that I know of that will accept up to 90 transfer credits are <a href=“http://www.ashford.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.ashford.edu</a> and <a href=“http://www.umuc.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://www.umuc.edu</a> Many other colleges and universities will accept you as a transfer even though you have completed more than two full years of college, but will limit you to a maximum of 60 transfer credits. Each college and university reads your transcript and decides which courses to give you credit for as a transfer student. Generally speaking, students lose some credits when they transfer.</p>
<p>You need to think very carefully about your reasons for transferring. Is a transfer necessary, or can you earn your finance degree where you are?</p>
<p>I checked and it seems 60 to 80 credits can be transferred to certain schools, at their discretion.</p>
<p>Well, if the college says the avg transfer gpa is 3.3, is it even worth trying? I can get it up to a 3.0 by end of junior year, but if the deadline is May 1, they can’t see my 2nd semester grades right? that would leave me around a 2.9 gpa if I cant do that, so do you think that is too low to have a chance?</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t see much point in transferring after junior year unless you are making a radical change in your major. An argument could also be made for transferring from a hideously expensive private school to a decent dirt-cheap public one where the cost of the remaining year(s) of your program works out to be significantly less than at the first place. But, if money is the issue, you should be taking the grades you have now and transferring to the cheap place sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>If you are trying to transfer “up”, you would need very good grades indeed (better than a mere 3.0). You may be better off just staying put, improving your GPA, and then looking for a decent graduate school.</p>