<p>So most of the Universities i checked only allows maximum of 60 credits from CC. I will have 72 credits when i transfer. Does this mean my 12 credits/4 classes/1 semester was a waste? Or am i understanding this wrong?</p>
<p>You may be understanding wrong. There are usually credit caps when you are transferring from 4-year institution to another 4-year institution or if you’re transferring from a CC and have credits from a 4-year institution.</p>
<p>If all your credits have only come from a CC, then usually there is no credit cap.</p>
<p>OR: You may be understanding it right. In this sense, you may apply to a specific school with as many accumulated units as you want, however, once articulated, the school may decide to allow only a max of 60 credits to transfer towards a degree at their institution.</p>
<p>Re-read the info from some of the schools you looked into and if the language falls in line with either of these explanations, then hopefully you can understand it all.</p>
<p>For UMD: A maximum of 60 credits from a community or two-year college or 90 credits from a combination of two and four-year institutions may be applied towards the degree. Students are required to complete at least their final 30 credits at University of Maryland to earn a degree. </p>
<p>For UMBC: A maximum of 60 credits —or 65 credits for engineering majors — are transferable from a two-year program or institution. UMBC’s graduation policy stipulates that the final 30 hours toward a bachelor’s degree must be completed on campus.</p>
<p>For GT: This one was pretty simple. No maximum, but at least 36 semester hours in residence at Georgia Tech before a degree may be awarded.</p>
<p>All the info from the respective school websites…So i am guessing the second explanation on your post is right.</p>
<p>Those descriptions could be either really specific or really vague depending on how you read them. I read UMD’s as they will only give you 60 our of however many credits you have. This could mean one of two things, either you can ONLY transfer 60 credits or you can transfer 60 credits and have the other classes contribute to pre-reqs only. The point of this is that you are supposed to get half of your 4-year degree at the 4-year school. With a majority of majors hovering around 120 credits, they want you to get your full last 2 years at the school. The “final 30 credits” probably just means transferring from one 4-year to UMD, you need to take at least a year of classes to graduate from UMD.</p>
<p>I hope this makes sense a bit, but your best bet, likely, is to talk to an advisor at those schools and see what they say.</p>
<p>Umd will accept more than 60 cc credits but will only apply 60 to your degree requirements (or half your degree minimum, eg aero us 124 minimum thus cap at 62). </p>
<p>The way maryland does it (as stated on their policies page), and possibly other schools too, you never have to repeat a course they give you credit for. So lets say you come in with 64 accepted credits, only 60 will count toward your graduation requirment, but lets say all of them were applicable to your degree and linear algebra was the 4 credits that put you over 60. You don’t have to repeat linear algebra, but you do have to take 4 credits of something else to fulfill graduation requirments. Essentially it turns the slot that class would have taken into a free elective. This is useful for people planning to pick up minor, double major or grad classes and need the flexibility in their schedule.</p>
<p>Now i get it…at least my 1 semester isn’t going to waste. Thnx rmelzer1986 and da6onet.</p>