<p>I need your help!
All right, so I am in the process of picking (finalizing) my courses for the Spring semester at my first college. I will transfer in Fall of 2010 and continue my studies someplace else, and I'm a little worried about credits transferring from the classes that I will choose to take now.</p>
<p>Would you happen to have any advice on how to do this correctly - how to choose right? Clearly I am comparing the general education requirements of the schools I am applying to to my available courses at uni 1. I didn't expect my advisor to care much, and she just told me to "choose either what will make sense or what [ I ] will really enjoy." </p>
<p>Is there a standard for what "makes sense" in this case? I notice many schools have overlapping Philosophy, Arts, and General Science requirements... am I on the right track?</p>
<p>What I really want to know, though, is if I called my prospective schools' Admissions offices, would the representatives (credit evaluators?) be kind enough to look at my first semester course work, and aid me in choosing courses for spring? Or would they refuse? Is that too much to ask?</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your help! I really do appreciate it. I'm trying to be as informed and sensible as possible here...</p>
<p>Yes, you can call your transfer school and ask them for some advice. You may want to consider taking some of the more widely accepted general ed classes such as:</p>
<p>Intro to Sociology
one art or music class (for your Arts general ed. requirement)
One lab science class
One history class
Intro. to American Literature
Intro. to Public Speaking
Consider the foreign language requirement at your transfer school</p>
<p>The transfer school should have their general education requirements listed on their website. See what they require and then see if your current college offers the same classes.</p>
<p>another strategy is to ONLY take classes that you can feasibly do well in, if you can get away with it. </p>
<p>i’ll give myself as an example. i purposefully fulfilled most of my liberal arts requirements at my first college, EXCEPT for math and foreign language. i knew that those would bring down my GPA, so i waited to take them at my second school.</p>
<p>Great! I’m currently making spreadsheets of transfer credits estimates and will be sure to call up all the admissions offices… Thanks for the reassurance :)</p>
<p>Missamericanpie, that’s exactly what I was thinking, too… I know I might not perform too spectacularly in a science lab course, but I wasn’t certain whether I should just go ahead and register for it, satisfying a <em>certain</em> future gen ed requirement, or if the decision would prove detrimental to my overall application.</p>
<p>And don’t the colleges only look at first semester grades of transfers? I know I only have to provide the course titles for second semester… I would guess that procedure is the same as first year admissions, when second semester grades are reviewed following admission to reexamine the student’s academic standing, and in extreme cases, alter the components of the admission offer or rescind it entirely.</p>
<p>Thoughts on this? How does the second semester coursework evaluation for transfers look like?</p>
<p>Well if you go to a CC, there are transfer packets available that tells you what is required for you to take in each subject for all different schools (usually in-state). For example, the transfer guide might state that you need 6 credit hours of quantitative reasoning and 3 credit hours of a history class. Those are just general education classes though and only need to be taken when you have less than 60 credits.</p>
<p>Aha. Yeah, I don’t go to a CC, and do all the fun organizing myself (plus, went to a school out of a state, applying to transfer schools out of state). Thanks, though. (:</p>
<p>My son did this when he transferred. He spoke to an advisor at the transfer school who gave him the requirements and then he took classes that would fill the requirements he needed. Some of the same classes were offered at both schools.</p>
<p>Choose classes in the longest sequence for your major. For example, for life sciences majors, chemistry is a 2+ year sequence which is also a pre-requisite for upper level biology/biochemistry, and if you don’t take it early enough, you may not graduate on time. Likewise, for engineers, math is the longest sequence and should be taken asap.</p>