I attend an early college school and I am considering transferring. I am wondering if I stay, will my future college accept my college credits???
When you say early college school what do you mean? Are you taking college classes in HS that still count to fulfilling HS credit? If so you would still be a freshman applicant.
And at schools like Stanford your acceptance chances as a transfer are even worse than as a freshman (1% transfer vs. 4% freshman). https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/01/stanford-cds-2018.pdf
@jojomcsolasmin, in my state we have a program called Running Start. Students take community college classes while still in high school. While these classes can often be applied to in-state public universities, often they do not transfer to private, out of state colleges. Is this the sort of program you mean?
Both colleges do accept transfer students from community colleges (though not necessarily that many of them, particularly in Stanford’s case; many of the few whom it does admit are non-traditional students), so they presumably accept community college courses for transfer credit for transfer students.
Columbia transfer credit policies for transfer students:
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/csa/transfercredit
http://bulletin.columbia.edu/general-studies/undergraduates/transfer-credit/
However, Columbia does not grant transfer credit for college courses taken while in high school for frosh entrants:
https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/ask/faq/question/2367
Stanford transfer credit policy:
https://registrar.stanford.edu/students/transfer-credit-and-advanced-placement/transfer-credit
Stanford transfer credit articulation listing:
https://registrar.stanford.edu/students/transfer-credit-and-advanced-placement/transfer-credit#search
If I was doing a running start, i would look very hard at my State Us. You would save money (less semesters) and you can be a star there if you are Columbia/Stanford worthy.
More often than not, private colleges and OOS publics will give no credit for CC courses taken in HS. Your in-state oublic may be more generous. But almost all colleges list their policies on their websites.
I suspect Stanford/Columbia are stricter, but out of curiosity I searched Purdue’s credit-granting database for the 19 dual-enrollment courses that our HS offers, some from local CC and some from University of Pittsburgh.
Of the 12 CC courses, they give course-specific credit for 5, generic credit (not really useful) for 6, and one wasn’t in the database.
Of the 7 Pitt courses, they give course-specific credit for 1, generic credit (not really useful) for 4, and two weren’t in the database.
The courses they gave credit for may or may not be useful for different majors. Intro to Geography, Algebra and Trig, and Latin1 wouldn’t have been useful to my D’s Engineering major. Microeconomics and English Comp would have been.
Check your school’s site to see if they have similar databases that can provide specifics.