<p>Just wondering what your college's limit is on the amount of classes you can take at another school (such as a community college) that will be transferred back to your academic record at your home school.</p>
<p>I'm interested in taking maybe 4 classes at a community college by my home over the summer and winter in order to get ahead and get standard liberal arts classes out of the way. My school though seems pretty strict on the amount of classes they will accept once enrolled. Just wondering, in your experience, does your school have a limit this?</p>
<p>That’s entirely dependent on the college. Some colleges have hard limits (e.g., you absolutely cannot take more than 4 classes off-campus), and many colleges in addition to or instead of hard limits have limits on types of classes (e.g., you cannot take any of your last 30 credits off-campus, or you cannot count more than one off-campus course towards your major).</p>
<p>So if you are already in college, check your college’s handbook and see what their limits are on general education requirements. If you’re at a public university they probably will have less problem with you taking GE classes at your local community college over the summer than they would if you are at a private college.</p>
<p>In my experience, my own alma mater would not have allowed this. They were very strict about the number of classes you could transfer in once you had already begun as a student there, with the exception of sanctioned domestic and foreign exchange programs. There were also certain GEs that we HAD to take at my alma mater (like the women’s or international studies requirement). I did have friends who took 1-2 classes over the summer at home.</p>