<p>If we don't take the recommended courses for our desired major, will that hurt our chances of being admitted?</p>
<p>Are you talking about the course requirements or the recommended courses on the course requirements page? The ones with a white box on that page won’t hurt you, they’re just there because you’re going to have to take them anyway and it will make your life easier in terms of prerequisites if you have them done before you transfer. If you don’t meet the course requirements, you will under no circumstances be admitted.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m talking about the white boxes on the Transfer Course Reqs. For example, if another applicant and I have the same transfer courses completed with the same GPA (except he has the recommended course and I don’t), will I be at a disadvantage?</p>
<p>Transfer admission is not a competitive process like high school admissions. Basically, you meet the requirements and you’re in - they don’t have a set amount of slots or anything (that I know of). They just don’t like to advertise it as such. Plus, if for some crazy reason, they can’t accept you then they can go back and say, “We never said it was guaranteed!” So yeah, so long as you meet the requirements you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I’ve seen people rejected who meet the minimum qualifications, so I don’t think it’s guaranteed. But it does seem like if you’re even just a little over the minimum, you’ll get in. They must have a very high number of applicants with exactly 3.0 GPAs (which is strange since the average GPA for transfer admissions is close to 3.5).</p>
<p>For IE, I’m required to take Physics 1 and a Lab Science elective.
Do you know if a Physics 1 course can fulfill both requirements?</p>
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<p>No, a lab science is a lab science other than the lab science classes you’re also required to take. </p>
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<p>It makes sense that the average GPA for transfer admissions would be higher than the minimum. Why on Earth would the only people transferring be those with 3.0 GPAs?</p>