<p>Hi! I'm a new member to College Confidential and have found the information here extremely helpful. I am a high school senior in Washington who has been in the Running Start program for two years now, and will be graduating this June. After graduation, I will continue to attend community college so that I can work up my math skills for when I apply to schools.</p>
<p>After this quarter, I will have accumulated 110 college credits and I have already registered for 32 more, which by the end of Fall 2010 quarter brings my total to 132. I started out as a Music and Spanish major, but I have decided that I want to double major in Philosophy and German, and hopefully go to law school after. My problem is this:</p>
<p>One of the universities that I am applying to (University of Washington) talks about "major preparation" as being an important factor in their admissions decisions. Despite my 3.76 GPA and massive amounts of credits, the community college I attend offers few classes in Philosophy and absolutely none in German. I am concerned that I will be rejected everywhere I apply based on the fact that I would like to attend a university for four years. Can anyone shed some light on whether transfer students are able to attend large universities for a four full years? I want to have a sequenced education, but am concerned that nothing I have done will matter if the UW or other universities flat out refuse to accept me based upon this only.</p>
<p>Bump. Sorry to bump my own thread, but nobody has any input? I will be consulting yet another advisor at the community college tomorrow, along with one of the philosophy professors and calling the University of Washington.</p>
<p>You have over 100 college credits as a hs senior? That is what is throwing me from any input - that is almost 4 years worth of college credits already. Is that right?</p>
<p>Are these quarter credits or semester credits? 30 semester credits are roughly equivalent to 45 quarter credits, or one year of college work.</p>
<p>The best people to advise you on how many of your credits (and exactly which ones) are likely to transfer to U of WA are the transfer counselor at your community college, and the transfer admissions officer at U of WA who is responsible for students who have been enrolled in Running Start. You should speak with both of them.</p>
<p>That said, most colleges and universities require that a student complete at least two years of coursework once they have transferred in. Depending on which credits do transfer and the specific requirements of the major(s) you decide to complete, you probably can arrange to linger at U of WA for a full four years if you so desire. Why you would want to, given that you intend to go to law school, is entirely beyond me. Law school is ridiculously expensive. It would make more sense to get our of U of WA as quickly and cheaply as possible so that you can afford to pay for law school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. </p>
<p>Yes, I do have over 100 credits because 1. I took 8 credits my freshman year of HS as a part of a program and 2. We are on quarters, and I have jam-packed (and paid for overload charges) my schedule every quarter in a frenzied rush to escape.</p>
<p>I am going to meet with an advisor tomorrow as well as call the University of Washington. I will have the prerequisites to enter into a philosophy major there, but Germanics remains a mystery. Nothing is for sure until I apply in December, though. I have completed every GRE I can possibly think of, I have completed all of UW’s distribution requirements for admission, I have above the median transfer GPA and I will have an associates degree when transferring… the whole process - even 7 months out - is nervewracking.</p>