<p>If I want to take summer classes to either get ahead or to accumulate credits for another major in the hopes of completing a double major, will my school accept the credits from any other school? For my purpose lets say I theoretically go to Cornell as AEM major, and want to take CS classes at one of the schools close to home. None of which are nearly as prestigious as Cornell, is that a problem? Would I be forced to seek out summer courses at the local Ivy, or be forced to stay in Ithica?</p>
<p>Thanks for any help in advance!</p>
<p>Credits are transferred all the time. It doesn’t need to be from a similarly tiered school. It does need to be a class that Cornell has (or something similar). Intro CS classes should be at both schools or something like English 101. You just need to provide them with your transcripts from the school you attended in the summer.</p>
<p>My DD is taking summer classes this year, she just finished her freshman year. For her university she had to have both the CC and the course approved by her current school to make sure they would transfer. You really don’t want to take a course and have it not be accepted. I would check with Cornell to verify.</p>
<p>My school requires summer classes to be pre approved to guarantee it will transfer.
If you don’t do this, my school has every right to deny the transfer (it denies most community colleges, for example, and it’s similarly ranked to Cornell). </p>
<p>So just make sure you check with the school /before/ you pay for or take the summer class.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies! I think it would be pretty shrewd to take CD classes at a school where it would likely be much easier, but like I said I don’t expect Cornell to accept than neccecarily. The closest 4 year schools to me would be Georgian Court, Monmouth, TCNJ and Rutgers. I suppose Fordham or NYU would be pheasable if I could find a place to stay closer to the city. Either way, I’m really looking forward to college, and I think the computer science courses would serve me rather well. I have been told on numerous occasions by some recruiters and powerful people in fortune 500 companies is that management talent is at a surplus, but tech talent is sorely lacking.</p>
<p>Nah, it’s not too shrewd if they’re easier, but don’t give you a good foundation for harder upper-level courses you’d take at your transfer school. 
But I’m sure they’ll be roughly equivalent, and it’s a good plan overall. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Well actually, I don’t think would even bother trying to take the upper level courses at y actual school. I am really not a math person, I’m above average, but it’s just not my thing. What is really important is that I can understand it at its core, enough understand that would allow me to speak with engineers and programmers and not appear as a complete outsider. It is hard to sell a product or explain what you want of you have no clue how it works and what can be done.</p>