<p>Hey folks. I'm preparing to transfer out of community college soon, and had some questions.</p>
<p>To start, my name is Nick and I'm 20. I'm currently enrolled at a community college in my 4th semester, and have completed 23 transferable credits. I did not do well in HS, and due to some very unfortunate family events that occurred during that time I ended up dropping out to get my G.E.D. I enrolled in community college after getting my act together, and have maintained a 3.6 GPA and am currently on the deans list at my college.</p>
<p>My biggest worry at the moment is my lack of Math credits and that I have zero test scores to send in(I never took the SAT's or ACT's because I dropped out). I have completed all English, History, and Science(with lab) requirements, but I'm very worried that I will not be able to transfer because I have not taken any advanced Mathematics courses.</p>
<p>Have any of you transferred without the typical required Math courses? I'm working on getting them completed, but as it stands I'm at least a year and a half away(that's including taking summer courses) from fulfilling the Math requirements.</p>
<p>Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.</p>
<p>Each school has different gen ed requirements (if any). Most don’t require anything beyond one reasoning class, something that say Calc I could fulfill.
You can still take the SATs now.</p>
<p>I’m looking to transfer to either VA Tech, James Madison University, UNC Charlotte, UNC Wilmington, or North Carolina State. I live in VA so the North Carolina colleges might be a bit more difficult being out of state, but I would definitely prefer UNC Charlotte.</p>
<p>I’m currently taking an introductory Math course. There are four intro courses at my college, and I’m currently on the third. I was planning on finishing this course up, and taking another placement test to place directly into pre-calculus so I could skip the 4th introductory Math course. Unfortunately, the Math course I’m in now does not give any transferable credit. I’ve always been excellent in English and History, but have always struggled with Math.</p>
<p>Hey nick we are in the same boat. I have a GED and a high CC GPA as well. I decided to take the January 22nd SAT, though you’d only have a week to study up, it might worth taking it and seeing how you do. </p>
<p>To answer your question I don’t see the lack of a high level math course as a significant anchor on your transfer chances. This is assuming of course that you are majoring in something…lets say unscientific or artistic? You will be able to satisfy the 1 or 2 course General Ed math requirements once you transfer, and from what I’ve been told from other students, most CC math courses are difficult to transfer to OOS schools anyway. </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice folks. I think that after this semester my GPA will be around 3.7 give or take, but I’ll still have zero transferable Math credits. I’m still going to apply because despite my struggles with math, I have always excelled in writing essays. I just hope they take the time to read them :P</p>
<p>As for my major… I think I’ll be majoring in History, with plans to go to law school after.</p>
<p>Int. Algebra is lower division institutional requirement and non transferable gateway class. If you are not going the calc or science direct you don’t want to do precalc (College Algebra and Trip) and want to do stats prior to transfer.</p>
<p>History is the long road to law school but is doable for people that love the subject. History core prereqs:
1 year of US History
1 year of Western Civ
1 year of World History</p>
<p>Other good macro understanding programs (major, minor, dual) for your direction are some sort of Global Studies or Law and Society program or curriculum classes.
the solid complete Law and Society prep core classes typically consists of at least:
1 year of Poli Sci: (1) US Institutions/American Gov + (2) Comparative Politics and/or (3) International Relations + elective (8) Political Econ
1 year of Econ: Macro and Micro sometime Poli Econ overlaps here
1 year of Philosophy: (1) Intro/Knowledge and Reality + (2) Critical Thinking and/or Ethics. Political Philosophy but could overlap under Phil or Sociology oftentimes
1 year of Sociology: whatever is related to Law and Society type issues
and/or 1 year of Business Law</p>
<p>Hope that helps somewhat at least to give you an idea.</p>