<p>Please help me, I am just going to make my question as simple as possible so you guys can help me in the best way possible.</p>
<p>-I am in Georgia and plan on going to a community College here in Georgia and getting my associates degree in B/A and Economics </p>
<p>-I want to transfer to a four-year school up north in states like
Pennsylvania,New York,Massachsettes,Vermont,Maine Ect. (Family Purposes)</p>
<p>-How can I be ABSOLUTELY sure that I will have a smooth Transfer from my CC to a Four-year. (Because I dont want to waste money taking classes that wont even transfer) </p>
<pre><code> -Also how can I be sure that my credits will transfer to my University of choice before enrolling to my CC and wasting time and money?
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<p>THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH FOR THE HELP IN ADVANCE!!
I realy appreciate it! =)</p>
<p>The answer is you can’t be absolutely sure unless it’s a local four year pgm that regularly accepts transferees from that CC. The best way (and it’s rather work intensive) is to contact the actual colleges that you’re considering and ask. Not easy but it’s probably your only route</p>
<p>kelfermookie: I don’t know what other advice a CC forum member can give you. It’s not as if any of us are magically sitting on the transfer committees of your unnamed target schools. I think you gotta get a phone list and put some time in by the phone starting Tuesday.</p>
<p>Anything else would be sheer speculation – that plus $3 will get you a Starbuck’s coffee.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you – you’re to be congratulated for your determination.</p>
<p>Also, it depends if you’ve graduated from high school or not. If you’re still in hs, some credits that you earn will not transfer. Also, Public Universities will accept credit transfers more often than Private Universities will. </p>
<p>Good luck though! I find myself in a similiar situation.</p>
<p>Yea I’m I pretty sure I wont have any credits transferring from high school considering the fact that I will be taking an alternative approach to obtaining my certificate of high school completion. </p>
<p>So let me get this straight, I contact my Colleges of choice and I ask for what again? What Classes I should take at my CC? Can you guys please clarify that please. Then I take those specific things at my CC for a smooth transfer correct?</p>
<p>Help me out cause I’m still in high school and will be out soon and need to know the things.</p>
<p>Yes, you’ll need to contact the University that you’re interested in, and ask them if they accept credit transfer from the CC that you’re going to. That way, you will know which classes to take so that they will transfer over.</p>
<p>Save your syllabi from all of your classes. Unless/until you have an official paper from your transfer college giving you the credit, there are usually no guarantees. The syllabi can be used to petition for credit on classes that you feel should have been given transfer credit - use them for proof of the the scope and depth of the classes you took. Don’t necessarily take a “no” for the end of the process - petition the ones that you feel you should have gotten credit.</p>
<p>Some schools will work more with you on this process than others. I heard one story from a girl who transfered and was told verbally that the majority of her classes would transfer, but when the time came (accepted and the paperwork awarding her credits), many of the credits did not transfer. She was very frustrated and decided (she still had a window of time) to transfer to a college that gave her more credit. In her case, she was disappointed, but the number of credits she was missing was huge. I know of another girl who transfered to yet a different college and really pushed petitioning for credit and was basically awarded most of her credits. </p>
<p>So - talk to admissions to see what their policies are - but even better - try and talk to other transfers who specifically are going to the schools you are aiming for to get the real scoop of how it tends to work out.</p>
<p>As for classes - if you can’t match them up or talk to an admissions officer, use some common sense. Take college level math, english, a science w/ a lab, some social sciences (psych 101, polit sci 101) and work on pre-reqs for your intended major. Read up on what the general ed is for your target schools and try to match them up with your local CC… 90% of the time, you’ll figure it out correctly. It doesn’t guarantee a match/credit, but it will go a lot further than if you take more esoterical classes. Some colleges will have strange general ed, but most follow a fairly predictable pattern so try and aim for that middle road. But - in short - your best bet is to talk to admissions in each of your target schools… phone/email and paperwork… it will take some time but it is fairly straightforward process.</p>
<p>If you plan on transferring, I strongly suggest you not get your associates in business administration and econ. In fact dont get your associates at all. By getting your associates you end up taking courses in business that will most likely often than not transfer.</p>
<p>You’d have a better shot transferring in general education courses in the liberal art,s humanities, social sciences & science courses than transferring major courses because every 4 year school will offer the same general ed courses, such as a sociology class, a psychology class, a philosophy class, college english class, college math class(calculus), biology, microecon, macro econ, chemistry, language classes, that would be the equivalent to the ones you take at a community college.</p>
<p>Taking business law, or anything major specific related to business will not help. In a school’s mind what good does it serve you to transfer in if technically speaking you already have the business education. THe purpose of transferring is to receive an education in a major there, as opposed to your community college.</p>
<p>ive been admitted to 4yrs univ from cc. to whom should i send the syllabus? when i was applying, the admission advisor said that most of my credits will be transferred (ive checked with their courses descriptions too and i could say they’re same courses)..but till now, they havent really given me proof about my transfer credits and i cant contact the advisor since she’s in out of country again,and she is the only advisor for international student. i’ve asked her shoould i send my syllabus or not,but she kept telling me to wait and she will contact me if she need more things from me. now,its really getting on my nerves, i want to just send my syllabus..but to whom? i’ve sent my spring 08 transcript to the admission department,but the syllabus?</p>
<p>My understanding is that you would wait to see what transfer credit you are awarded. No need to petition for credit on a class that will be reviewed and given credit just based on your transcript!</p>
<p>Most colleges, after they award credit or not for a class, will then allow a student to petition. At that time you would submit the syllabus for each class you are petitioning.</p>
<p>The wait sounds frustrating, but I think your advisor is correct that you shouldn’t jump the gun until after the first phase is over.</p>
<p>Q: so,the college can really see which courses that macth with theirs by only looking from my transcript? i though there’s no any long description on the transcript..</p>
<p>chowder - in schools I’m familiar with, someone in the Registrar’s office “articulates” your transcript; and/or someone in the department/school office for your major/field (eg, Engineering school). Often they do want to see the course descriptions from the course catalog. I haven’t seen them ask for full syllabus, but that might happen. Sometimes they don’t need these things, especially if they have transfer students from your school fairly often.</p>
<p>If you are anxious about waiting (and I don’t blame you), I’d suggest contacting the Registrar’s office and asking about the process or staff in the Dean’s office of the school you will be in (Engineering, A&S, Business…).</p>
<p>To the OP, not sure if you have found answers for your own situation yet - another approach would be to contact the Transfer Advisor at your cc and see what kind of success your cc’s students have had with credit transfer to the schools you are considering.</p>
<p>As others have said, I don’t think there is ever a 100% guarantee until you are accepted and they see your transcript/catalog; except as previously mentioned for those schools with Guaranteed Transfer arrangements. </p>
<p>But you can certainly get some advance guidance either from your cc or one or more of the 4-year schools you are considering.</p>