<p>It seems like a fairly common practice that UNC students take summer classes at a
university near their home that will count towards their UNC major. </p>
<p>How does this work? Do the credits and grades transfer back or just the credits? Do you have to get it pre-approved by your advisor? Any other red tape that you have to navigate to do this?</p>
<p>Normally people take things to fulfill core requirements or foreign language courses somewhere else…it’s often difficult to get an exact match for major courses…unless you have departmental permission or acknowledgement that the class would indeed count toward your major, I would advise not doing it.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t think this is all that common unless students come in unprepared and/or don’t make the right course selections. So long as you have a somewhat focused idea of what you want to do and continually try to knock out gen eds, there really isn’t any reason to do summer school.</p>
<p>So it is fairly common. I know of 2 UNC Students who are taking Chem 102 at UNC Asheville and UNC Charlotte, respectively, this summer. On the flip side, I also know of two students, one from Wake Forest and one from Duke, who are taking Physics 116 at UNC this summer.</p>
<p>So wondering if anyone on this site has done this and the process they followed to do so.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a lot of red tape if a UNC student wants to do summer school at another “UNC” school (Asheville, Charlotte, etc). From what my friends have told me (one took all her Chemistry classes at Wilmington - don’t recommend that if you’re planning on med school, etc), only the credits transfer.</p>
<p>It seems like issues arise if you stray outside of the UNC system - apparently State will only let you take summer classes there if you also take a summer class at your own school. One of my friends wanted to do summer school at State, but she had to take one class during Summer Session I at UNC in order to be allowed to take the State class later in the summer.</p>