<p>Hey, i have got several of the apps satellite components (reccs, etc) out the door, but one thing that really baffles me is how you indicate waht classes you have taken, or include course descriptions and whatnot. The situation is further complicated by the fact that i am at a school that works on the quarter system, and almost all of the schools i am applying to use semesters. I was hoping someone could explain this to me fully, as if i were a 5-year old, to quote the movie Philidelphia. </p>
<p>Okay, I guess I need you to repeat the question as if <em>I</em> were a 5 year old. ;) Most of the transfer apps I have seen provide a grid for you to list the Course name, course #, # credits, term (fall, winter, spring) and whether it was on a semester or quarter basis. </p>
<p>Some of them have room for you to put, eg:</p>
<p>Phys 101 General Physics fall 3 (sem)
Phys 101b General Physics lab fall 1 (sem)</p>
<p>Some of them don't have that much room, so u would just put Phys 101 3 fall or whatever.</p>
<p>What type of grid are you looking at?</p>
<p>Some ask for complete course descriptions from the catalog. Often they don't and you will only provide this to the school which actually accepts you and where you plan to matriculate. But some ask for it at application time.</p>
<p>What my S did was cut and paste the course descriptions from the online course catalog onto one page of a Word document and include that with his application.</p>
<p>That's what happens at the application part of the process.</p>
<p>Once you choose a school, they will take your transcript and the course catalog descriptions and do what they call "articulate" your courses. They will analyze what you've taken and determine what course each of yours matches up to (or closely matches to) at their school and determine how many credits you will have and what core or pre-req requirements you have fulfilled. Sometimes there is a little back and forth discussion if they misinterpreted something you took. Sometimes they won't give credit for P/F courses taken at another school - but will do so if you can show in writing that you would have received at least a C.</p>
<p>If this doesn't answer your question, I'll try again.</p>