<p>We went to Tulane on Mar 31st for Destination Tulane, we had good impression of the school overall, but when I asked about what courses(credits) can be transferred to Tulane if my D takes classes this summer at a college near home, the answer I got from a transfer adviser is that we need to bring the course descriptions of the college where my D takes the courses to Tulane in order for them to determine whether the credits can be transferred or not. Thus, I am not sure if it is a good idea for my D to take classes outside of Tulane if she decided to go there.</p>
<p>I know a lot of colleges have credit transfer service online which allows student to check to see what credit of the courses can be transferred from a specific college to another. Don't know why this seems not that straight forward for Tulane. What are your suggestions for us regarding taking summer classes at a college near home or local cc outside of Tulane? BTW, My D will be a freshman this fall.</p>
<p>I would take them anyway, just for the experience. But if this is an accredited college and Tulane has a similar course, it should transfer. I think you should be able to get these approved ahead of time anyway. Just send the course description and the name of the school to the advising center and see what they say. You might want to contact your admissions counselor first just to make sure that is the right path, maybe someone else needs to see it. But with course descriptions all being online these days, you should be able to put the Tulane equivalent course description beside the one she is thinking about taking and get approval.</p>
<p>I am not at all surprised that Tulane requires the class to be pre-approved. My daughter attends another prestigious university where they are very particular about what they will accept. It can vary by what school the class is taken and sometimes it is also affected by whether or not the course is a requirement for their major. It just isn’t always black and white.</p>
<p>Tulane won’t accept transfer credits from two-year community colleges, I think four-year ones are okay though. So if you’re taking them at a local 2-year CC, she won’t get credit no matter what. Other than that, FC is probably right that similar courses at accredited 4-year schools will be approved. And taking them for experience can only be a good thing.</p>
<p>I took MTH 279 Ordinary Diff Eq at a local Community College. It’s the highest math offered, and I flew through getting all 100%, everybody in the classes hated me, cuz I ruined the curve for everybody. As a senior in high school, taking the hardest math at a CC with all college sophomores and supposedly juniors, I still thought it was easy.
That’s just one example, I also take dual enrollment class offered at my high school, which is also really easy for me. How would prestige colleges take credits like that?! If they do, I’d be really surprised, and I would start doubting about the quality of education there.
Taking it as an experience maybe worth it, but I don’t expect to get any credit for the classes I took…</p>
<p>In any case, one of the best lessons one can learn in life, and double this for universities (any university!) is get it OK’d first and get it in writing.</p>
<p>I just met with my advisor last week. I was told that the easiest way for me to be able to study abroad during junior year would be to take a couple of courses over the summer. Only classes taken at a 4 year are transferable.</p>
<p>My son was enrolled at the local CC his senior year. He attended half days at HS and half days at the CC. I thought his credits were accepted…I will half to double check on that. Anyway - what those classes did do is exempt him from several required freshman classes such as Freshman comp. He was pretty happy about getting that out of the way!</p>
<p>@riroka, maybe your son was in state? A lot of times, colleges take in state CC credits.
I saw on Tulane website that “no two year community College credit accepted”</p>
<p>But riroka makes a good point. It may be that while you might not get credit like you do with AP 4’s and 5’s, you might still place out of lower level courses. That is worth something, if true. Again, this is an area frought with special circumstances at times. I repeat my warning in post #6.</p>
<p>But if a student is placed out of the lower level courses without getting any credits for those classes, she/he still need to take some other classes to make up the credits since she/he needs to have certain number of credits to graduate, therefore taking classes at local cc does not make too much sense in terms of Tulane credits, right?</p>
<p>That’s what I’m thinking too. If my Freshman College Comp gets exempt out, then what would I take? Some harder class that would give me a lower GPA? If they don’t count as credits, why would I bother even skipping that class any ways?</p>
<p>I just checked my sons online transcript and it shows 13 credits transferred from the community college. I am wondering if they transfer because he took them while still in high school. </p>
<p>Also - we live in Minnesota, so he was not in-state.</p>
<p>Ok - here it it straight from the Tulane Webiste!</p>
<p>Does Tulane accept credit for college courses I have taken during my high school years?</p>
<p>For dual enrollment program credit to transfer - in the case that a student is taking college course work during their high school years - the student must be on a college campus, in a classroom with mostly college students and taught by a college professor. If all three criteria are met, the individual courses will be reviewed by different departments in order to determine if they are similar to any of the courses that Tulane offers. If a course matches up with a Tulane-taught course, the credit will transfer.</p>
<p>Tulane may accept credit from community college classes taken while in high school, but they WILL NOT accept credit if the courses are taken after “matriculation” (I think that’s what they call it), i.e. after the student has committed to Tulane.</p>