I want my credits to transfer!

<p>Is there any good site that allows me to enter in the community college courses I took during high school, and the AP tests to see how much credit I can get at any college? Or which college offers me the most credit? Thanks!</p>

<p>No, I think you have to go to the colleges you are interested in and look up what they give AP credits for. Most colleges have that on their websites. For CC classes, your best bet would be your state flagship. They will know what CC classes will transfer. Other than that you have to contact the colleges directly. Also try talking to your Guidance Counselor.</p>

<p>For AP credits, there are usually a table on each school’s website. For CC credits, you may need to search in their database. Here is one example from UMich:
<a href=“UM Transfer Credit Equivalencies”>http://www.ugadmiss.umich.edu/TCE/Public/CT_TCESearch.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You are smart to ask this question. Some students took classes in dual enrollment instead of AP thinking they will have the credits, but found out at the time of enrollment many of their CC credits were not qualified for transfer at that particular school.</p>

<p>The transfer advisor at your community college should be able to help you find out about transferrable credits for at least the in-state public universities.</p>

<p>Do you know if I can get all my credits (the ones that the colleges accept) to get accepted? cause i heard that some colleges </p>

<p>Talk to your transfer GC about this. It will be specific to each college.</p>

<p>Some colleges put a cap on how many credits you can transfer.</p>

<p>oh dang my reply didn’t go all the way through. I wanted to say that some colleges restricted the number of credits they’ll accept, and i’ll have more or less 70 to 100 credits before entering college. So i would love to get it accepted!</p>

<p>Yes, school may limit the number of transferred credit. They may also require certain number of credit to be taken after transfer before graduation. Also, not credit from every class can be transferred. I know a student took up to Calc 3 in a CC but none of the credits were accepted by the school she is enrolling and has to start from Calc 1 all over again. Finally, having too much transferred credit may make you to pay uppercase tuition even if you will not graduate within 2 years.</p>

<p>I’m not too worried about paying higher tuition, but are there any decent colleges I can attend (majoring in physics, and comp sci) that would accept my credits? I have quite a few in social science, math, and physics.</p>

<p>Is studying abroad a better or worse idea?</p>

<p>If you think about a college, you getting a diploma is the output of that college. So you having a degree in say Physics is them sort of guaranteeing some level of quality. If you didn’t take the bulk of your classes at that University, how can they put the stamp of approval on you? So they may let many of the general ed type courses transfer, they wont’ let much beyond the intro courses in your major transfer.</p>

<p>You have to check each school. The school may or may not accept credits from a particular class obtained at a particular CC. There is no generalization. Your CC counselor may have some information although they tend to know mostly universities within the same area. Even you get most/all of the credits transferred, you still need to fulfill the minimal credit in house requirement of the school your transferred into.</p>

<p>You must check with each school individually. And you need to ask 1) will the school accept the CC credits? 2) what if any AP scores do they accept? and 3) how will they count the credits (as a general elective, towards the school’s core requirements)? </p>

<p>You likely can’t get higher than junior status.</p>

<p>If the new college is competitive, and even where I work does this and you could question how competitive they are :slight_smile: , they will NOT take CC courses wholesale. However, there is a CC/state college agreement in our state, so we’ve been forced to take certain courses, but others are up to each department’s transfer coordinator.</p>

<p>Try a state college in the same state as your CC, and see if there is a transfer agreement. Or, do a search on the state your CC is in, and the words “transfer agreement”.</p>

<p>I know that for Texas, you can go to tccns.org, but that’s all completely dependent on whether or not you’re coming from a Texas community college.</p>

<p>I do not know of any place that will accept more than full academic years worth of credits (about 60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours) that have been earned at a community college. However there are a number of institutions that will accept up to three years worth of credits if at least a one year’s equivalent was earned at four-year institutions. Check your own in-state public U first. If you think you could be happy completing your degree by online/distance ed. see <a href=“http://umuc.edu/”>http://umuc.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It is important to remember that even if you cannot transfer all of your credits because you have too many, you might be able to choose which of the potentially transferable credits are the ones that are transferred, and you may be able to petition for advanced course placement based on courses that you have taken elsewhere even if the class that earns you that placement is not one that is recorded as transferred for credit.</p>