<p>My son saw his transfer credit report for the first time when he went to orientation. They transferred just about all the credits, but only some of them mapped to Cal Poly courses. The rest turned into some kind of generic transfer credit units.</p>
<p>Looking at assist.org – Cal Poly says there is no equivalent for ENG 105 (Critical Thinking)at his community college. Even if he took a course called Critical Thinking and Writing that sounds just like it. About half dozen seemingly equivalent courses were “rejected”. </p>
<p>Is he doomed to repeat these courses? I see there is some kind of transfer credit petition form you can fill out, but how successful have students been in the past doing this?</p>
<p>I see Cal Poly is way more generous with transfer credits from Mt. Sac. Makes me wonder if we should have stayed home and stuck with SJ State??</p>
<p>He should go ahead and talk with an academic advisor and see what can be done. Assist.org is usually pretty spot on about which courses transfer as what. Some courses <em>may</em> have to be repeated. But that would be your best bet as they can take a better look at what he has completed.</p>
<p>Someone at orientation had only 21 units or so transfer last year.</p>
<p>Honestly, before applying, people should look at assist.org…I don’t know how many times people told me to do this and I don’t know how many times I told people to do this. It was a given. Why apply somewhere when your courses don’t transfer? Every single one I had transferred. I came from a community college ~3 hours away. Before I left I meticulously matched all the courses I could and made sure that mine were transferable. I made a few appointments with my college counselor and they made some calls too.</p>
<p>I think they are going by course content. I think if you can present past documents, etc. that show what you learned was similar then I think you may have a successful petition. I never had to do it, any problems people I had who transferred with me were resolved in minutes (mostly cuz they did transfer, they just weren’t finished with their transfer credit report). Just because the course title is the same doesn’t mean it was the same.</p>
<p>The kid who takes Physics XXX, which seems equivalent to Physics YYY may seem the same, but if the kid who took Physics XXX is taking Physics ZZZ where Physics YYY is a pre-requisite and finds himself going “What? I never learned this…” they are screwed.</p>