<p>I'm not sure if anyone is/was in the same circumstance, but I figure I'll try anyway.</p>
<p>I know that you can sign up for the MTAP at any point prior to your last semester at a participating CC. However, I don't know if MTAP applies if I'm applying prior to the completion of the 30 credit requirement.</p>
<p>Basically, I am going into Fall semester as an MTAP student with 29 credits. To utilize MTAP, I need to apply by the Priority deadline, which happens to be August 1 for Spring.</p>
<p>Can I use MTAP assuming that by the time I start at Maryland I'll be over 30 credits, or is it based on completed credits?</p>
<p>I'm going to a My Maryland information session next Friday, so I can ask in person at that time, but I was wondering if anyone knows based on personal experience.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Maryland Transfer Advantage students will complete an application for transfer admission to UMCP at one of two times:
*During or after the semester that 30 credits are completed (the Transfer Studies Certificate).Courses within the 30-credit Transfer Studies Certificate will include 5 general education courses and completion of the Freshman English requirement and a college-level mathematics course.
*During the semester that 60 credits are completed (an Associates Degree)</p>
<p>With the application for transfer admission, students will send an official transcript to show these Maryland Transfer Advantage qualifications have been met:
<em>30 college-level credits completed or in progress at the time of application (the Transfer Studies Certificate)
*or 60 college-level credits completed or in progress at time of application (an AA or AS degree)
</em>a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA</p>
<p>hope that clarifies it</p>
<p>It does, thank you very much. I’ll need to talk to someone at the information session to see about applying before starting that last semester. Priority deadline is August 1, and the semester starts on the 26th =/.</p>