I am a student at Goshen College, and I am looking to transfer. I doubt any of you have even heard of this school, but if anyone here has been able to transfer out it would be very nice to hear from you. The thing about Goshen is that a lot of the classes here only count here. A lot of the credits that I have won’t transfer over to MSU.(the school I want to go to) Community College seems to be the most logical option, but if anyone here has transferred from GC, then I would love to hear from you!! Thank you all so much, have a great weekend.
Hi–that sounds rough. But I’m not sure of your conclusion that CC is the most logicl option. It’s only the most logical option if you want to get credit for all of your classes at Goshen. Is that your only goal? If so, go for it.
I suspect however that you want to transfer to MSU because it has some program or something else that interests you more than Goshen does at present. If that’s the case, it may be worth it to you to give up some credits i order to access the benefits of MSU.
Most schools that you transfer to will NOT accept the credits from the previous school. Some schools have what are called “articulation agreements” which help transfer credits from Institution A to Institution B. CCs tend to hate articulation agreements with area 4-year colleges.
Well, I am just confused about everything honestly. There is a tool that MSU has that lets me see what courses would transfer over and what not. A lot of the classes that I have taken/are going to take in the future would not transfer over. So my logic would just to go to Lansing Community College, and take the classes there that would transfer over that is all. Thank you for responding though. I am just confused hahaha
You don’t have to be in college continuously. You can apply to MSU now, and take a leave from Goshen for the spring semester and just work and save money.
Or they will accept the credits, but not give equivalency to specific courses, which can prevent you from getting subject credit for requirements for your major through the transfer courses (so you end up with generic elective credit that may not be very useful). In some cases, departments will individually evaluate your previous college course work when there is no existing articulation agreement (keep your course syllabi, books, exams, etc. for this), but there is a significant risk that they will decide that they are not equivalent after you have already committed to MSU.
But then MSU does have articulation listings for courses from Goshen at https://transfer.msu.edu/ . Some courses give equivalency to MSU courses, but others are just listed as generic elective credits. Some seem to have only historical listings, suggesting that MSU may re-evaluate them on request.
Apply for Fall 2019 at MSu and take a leave of absence for the Spring. Be VERY CAREFUL to withdraw from Housing and your dining contract.
I don’t understand what you are talking about. MSU is a similar level to Goshen. I don’t know why they wouldn’t take your credits. It doesn’t make sense to transfer to a community college, which is a two year school.
The first-year curriculum at Goshen includes several components that are unlikely to transfer:
1° Convocation/Chapel (weekly)
2° Engaging the Bible
3° Wellness for life
4° Learning Community
these wouldn’t transfer.
However:
The Goshen Seminar (interdisciplinary seminar), Academic Voice (Freshman comp) and Identity, Culture, Community should count, right?
Perhaps BYU? No idea lol
BYU is Morman and Goshen is Mennonite.
@sattut I’m aware. And, it’s “Mormon,” not “Morman.” Have a blessed night.
Yeh, there are also some fundamentalist schools with a lot of religion classes. Not sure if OP wants to transfer to somewhere with a different strong religious orientation, but that is a possibility.