<p>I'm about to graduate high school and I was planning to take a community college course over the summer in order to fulfill a GE category requirement. Over the summer, however, I'll be taking a two week long trip so I'd miss four classes which would place me way behind the course. I thought about taking online community college courses but I'm unsure which specific online courses USC will accept for credit. Are there any students or alumni who've had success with transferring online community college courses? </p>
<p>(I have emailed a USC counselor and her response was that for a majority of online courses, I will not know if they are transferable until after I apply to USC because they have to be approved by the USC Articulation Office). What I'm confused about is that in the articulation agreement for one of the community colleges, classes approved by USC are only offered online. </p>
<p>Yes, online courses may be transferable (note that I am not saying they WILL be transferable, but that they may be ). There is a slight semantics difference in your interpretation of the USC counselor’s response above I need to point out - it isn’t that you won’t know until after you apply, it is that you wont know if/how it transfers until after you complete the course and matriculate. (A brief look at your post history tells me that you have already applied and been accepted as a freshman (CONGRATS!).</p>
<p>If you had completed the course already and submitted the transcript to USC, it would already appear on your Oasis indicating whether it was accepted for credit and what credit was given (elective, GE, etc.). It looks as though (based on a post you made asking if you needed to submit your cc transcript) you had a community college course last summer - is that showing on your Oasis?</p>
<p>The issue with the counselor giving any indication whether your course will be accepted is that currently you are not a matriculated USC student (meaning you have not yet attended your first day of class) so the process where you get cc units pre-approved for credit is not available to you. </p>
<p>Next year, as a continuing, matriculated USC student you will be required to obtain pre-approval for any cc units you plan over the summer. This will be a benefit because you will know in advance how the units will be applied (assuming you successfully complete the course).</p>
<p>NOTE: For continuing students pre-approval of summer cc units is REQUIRED, so please start on the process in January to be sure everything is in place. Community college course CANNOT be taken during Fall or Spring semesters while you are enrolled at USC once you matriculate to USC - only summer.</p>
<p>My advice - if the online course number is identical to the course number for that cc on the USC articulation agreement, then you can feel fairly confident that yes, the course will be accepted at USC for credit. Go ahead and sign up - it will be a productive use of your summer to knock off a GE.</p>
<p>I just noted something in your original post - you say the online course number for a DIFFERENT cc matches the course number for USC’s articulation agreement - do not assume that a course from a DIFFERENT cc would transfer the same way - courses vary cc to cc and in that case the course may not be accepted. The sensible thing to do would be to take the online course from the cc that actually has the course on USC’s articulation agreement - the course is online, so location of the cc should not be an issue.</p>
<p>From reading a couple of the articulation agreements with local (SF Bay Area) CC’s it seems that the one period where you can’t take courses is the summer between the end of high school and the beginning of freshman year. The agreements seem to specify courses taken <em>before high school graduation</em> (emphasis theirs) and those taken by USC students. The second category requires pre-approval, which you can’t get until you actually matriculate.</p>
<p>So I guess they give you the summer off ;).</p>
<p>Thanks for replies! Yes, my transcript for a previous community college course has showed up except they’re only giving me 2.66 units because the community college operated on a quarter system. </p>
). There is a slight semantics difference in your interpretation of the USC counselor’s response above I need to point out - it isn’t that you won’t know until after you apply, it is that you wont know if/how it transfers until after you complete the course and matriculate. (A brief look at your post history tells me that you have already applied and been accepted as a freshman (CONGRATS!).</p>