<p>Hello, first post here, hope I'm posting on the correct sub-forum.</p>
<p>I'm a second year community college student hoping to be accepted into the University of Washington's aerospace engineering program. I'm not worried about getting general admittance into UW, however, I am a bit nervous about being accepted into my program. I have all of the pre-reqs covered according to <a href="http://www.engr.washington.edu/curr_students/admissions/comparemajors.html">http://www.engr.washington.edu/curr_students/admissions/comparemajors.html</a> this. The class that makes me nervous is thermodynamics. Since it wasn't offered at my school, I took "Engineering Thermodynamics" at Western Washington University, a 3 credit class. The thermodynamics class at UW is a 4 credit class. I've compared the syllabus from my class to that of my friend's who is currently at UW and everything that he is learning was covered in my class. Essentially, my question is whether you think they'll accept my credits and say that the class I took covers the thermo pre-req, or will I have to retake it and wait an entire year to apply to my program all because of one class?</p>
<p>Thanks for taking your time to read and answer my post.</p>
<p>Past experience in this type of situation is what I was hoping for.</p>
<p>I have, they basically said that I need to wait until I’m already accepted into the college and then an adviser will decide if it’ll transfer. They wouldn’t let me visit an adviser to ask. It really puts me in a difficult spot because UW doesn’t reply until June/July which is very inconvenient for a multitude of reasons (housing, student loans, asking for holds in other schools I was accepted into, etc). If I just had an idea of whether or not people have successfully transferred the credits from a class of one university to another when their class from their previous university was less credits than the institution they transferred them (but covered the same course material), then it’d help me out in making my college choices by a great deal. Basically if they don’t transfer I’m not interested. If they do UW would be my number one choice, by far.</p>
<p>It seems like UW is no different from other colleges in respect to transfer students.
Yes first step is always acceptance, and then transcript evaluation comes after that, hopefully before classes starts.
Most school will do that between weeks of acceptance, so you know what is transferred. But yes at this point you just have to wait till the University gets back to you.</p>