<p><em>shrugs</em> I asked the question straight up, and there was a resounding "no" response. Maybe they figured I took a few classes at a CC and they don't award credit to single courses, but only to those who applied as transfers or received an AA degree. I was a bit thrown by the responses (and it greatly influenced where I applied to universities) because I took it to mean that most private universities wouldn't accept my credit.</p>
<p>FYI, I'll be going to University of Chicago next year but I applied as a freshman (I dual-enrolled at a community college), so I wonder what their stance is on it. I asked at an admissions session when I visited and they said they would award credit on a course-by-course basis (at the time I figured UChi was an exception to the rule that private universities wouldn't accept credit). Is this common?</p>
<p>Anyhow, thanks for any information.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh I just went back to check my e-mail and the schools at the session were Georgetown (not GW, sorry), Duke, Harvard, and UPenn.</p>
<p>Ok, well a friend of mine was accepted to Gtown last year (from my CC) and they took nearly all of his credits, so I don't know what they were talking about. UChi's stance is typical: most schools evaluate credits on a course by course basis. FYI, I am CC student that was accepted to Washington University in St. Louis: all 60 (the maximum) of my credits transferred.</p>
<p>Wow, that's so awesome to hear.. you don't even know. I thought that my credits would be worthless despite the fact that I loved the majority of my classes (which is why I took them) and learned a lot more than I did in my IB high school classes.</p>
<p>Yeah I wouldn't worry about it too much. The people doing those information sessions often aren't as familiar with policies for transfer students and are geared towards informing freshmen applicants. </p>
<p>Obviously, you will do better regarding transfer credits at schools that are more "community college transfer friendly." Gtown is one (it accepted 13 students from a major CC in Maryland last year), as is WashU. However, I have heard that few CC students get into UChicago...evidently they consider themselves a bit too elite :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I didn't say anything about the students. The credit is where my inquiry was aimed. </p>
<p>However, brand's pretty much got the question answered. I'm concluding the responses at the session to be directed at a freshman looking to apply, as opposed to transfer students and therefore invalid to this discussion.</p>
<p>And, fyi, Harvard didn't like this community college student enough to accept him -_-"</p>
<p>Yes I believe they generally accept credit for college-level courses. But they may not accept thing that they think are below college-level and they may not count courses toward your major. (U of Chicago does not want you graduating with an Econ degree with your Econ intros done at a CC.. They want to mint you with their brand of Econ, for example.)</p>
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<p>From what I understand, UChicago is less generous about transfer credits than most schools. So don't be too surprised if they throw a lot of your courses down the drain. I think this is why they accept less cc students than usual... They don't want to have to reject a whole mess of credits and end up not registering the accepted student because they decided to go somewhere else. I don't think it's so much that they consider themselves more "elite".</p>
<p>For example, the last time I checked, UChicago accepted a smaller % of transfer students applicants than freshmen applicants. Northwestern, on the other hand, actually accepted a larger % of transfers than they did freshmen. So technically it's easier to get into NU as a transfer! (Of course, this pattern may not hold for the future) Northwestern accepted ever single cc credit I had, even ones that I didn't expect them to.</p>
<p>if it makes you feel any better, i go to a community college and MIT has accepted 10+ transfers from here over the hears! I think the exact number is 12 or something. </p>
<p>Just last year we had people go to </p>
<p>-Upenn
-Cornell
-Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>And in the past few years we had people go to Yale and Stanford as well as Brown and virtually every school in the ivy league besides Princeton (that does not accept transfers right now - maybe they will change thier policy).
Anyway, Im a community college student about to transfer and I think I have gained alot of opportunities at CC, if you are worried that you will not have to any nice places to transfer its more about how hard you work and what you can do with your opportunities than anything else. </p>
<p>I'm a CC student from Maryland, took 37 credits part time over the course of two years. I was accepted to every school I applied to UNC-Chapel Hill, U-Mich- Ann Arbor and Wisco-Madison.</p>
<p>I will be going to Chapel Hill...which I DEFINATELY could not have gotten into as a freshman OOS student.</p>
<p>I love my CC and I would reccomend CC over a 4-yr to anyone who's looking to transfer b/c they didn't get into the schools they wanted as a freshman/ those with great stats already but trying to save some money and those who didn't do so hot in HS.</p>
<p>Well, cc students don't transfer because they are disgruntled or aiming for more prestige they missed out on the first time around - if I were an adcom, that would mean a slight advantage coupled with the non-traditional, lower socioeconomic status, etc background of many cc transfers.</p>
<p>my sister is a junior at NYU. Her 3 roommates all transferred from community colleges, granted they maintained a very high gpa, but it is definitely possible!!</p>
<p>FE, all other things being equal, transferring from a "top school" does give you an edge since you're expected to have worked harder to obtain those high stats</p>