Can a school tell you upon admission that they will accept certain classes and then a year later tell you they will no longer accept those credits
Some colleges have articulation listings that specific which courses at other colleges are accepted as equivalent to their own courses for fulfilling requirements or prerequisites. If your courses are listed there, you should expect the college to honor those listings (but check the fine print* on its transfer credit policy).
Where there is no articulation listing for your courses, then you just have to see if the college will give you a binding transfer credit agreement before you have to commit (apparently unlikely); if not, then you just have to hope that what is apparent to you is actually what they will accept.
*Example: a college may have a policy of refusing transfer credit for college courses taken in on-line format, or used to fulfill high school graduation requirements, or are in “college in the high school” format, even if it would otherwise accept the specific courses.
Yes.
when you say a binding credit agreement what is that. im asking because I applied to a college upon admission they gave a print out of all the credits they accepted from my previous schools. I am not a year into the program and when its time to register for the next semester I get an email that says I’m sorry the credits that were transferred we will no longer accept and they want me to take the classes. There is a fellow student who transferred the same classes and they have not been told that there classes don’t transfer. ( we transferred from the same school) the class that they want me to retake is a 2 credit class the class I took is a 3 credit class
Did you have it in writing at the time that they will accept the prior college course work as listed, or that the listing is only an estimate subject to further review?
What colleges and courses?
I have it in writing and an email
Show them the previous written and email statement and ask them why it is being rescinded now.
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