<p>quarter or semester or something else?</p>
<p>When a school says students with more than four semesters elsewhere are discouraged from applying, it hardly makes any sense to treat each season as an individual semester, for then entering as a junior becomes impossible.</p>
<p>Are the shorter seasons each grouped with a longer season to form the equivalent of one semester?</p>
<p>If I'm on the quarter system, what's the equivalent of four semesters?</p>
<p>If I'm on another system, what is it and what's the equivalent of four semesters?</p>
<p>That is a semester system (16 weeks fall, 16 weeks summer, plus summer sessions offered).</p>
<p>When the college says “4 semesters only” they usually do not count summer sessions against a student. As always, do confirm this with your <em>specific</em> college if you are concerned.</p>
<p>If on quarter system, the Fall, Win, Spring are considered the basic academic “year” and the Summer quarter considered a summer session. So 4 semesters = 6 quarters (and usually taking summer quarter is not counted against it, but again, ask the specific transfer college for confirmation).</p>
<p>The 3 week winter session is also optional: is it also not counted against a student? Is it customarily grouped with either a fall or a spring sessions (i.e., considered to be an offshoot of one or the other?)</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the winter session.</p>