<p>Most ivy league schools say that they discourage people from transfering if they have more than two years of college experience. I will probably have around 86 credits by the end of my sophomore year. Does this make me ineligable to transfer as a Junior?</p>
<p>Why in gods name would you want to transfer when you are just a year away from graduating? Why? Is that illusive Harvard bumper sticker really worth another 2-3 years in school and another $60,000+?</p>
<p>You can't be serious, I know you aren't, this is all a dream.</p>
<p>Well I just finished my sophomore year with 72 credits in 20 courses (lots of labs) and Dartmouth (if i get off the waitlist) would take 17 of those. The point is that most ivies would accept you but a bunch of the credits probably wouldn't transfer over. It probably wouldn't affect when you graduate and grad schools would see classes that the ivy didn't take anyway.</p>
<p>excalibur, you are saying Dartmouth would only take 17/72 credits?!??! or 17 classes?</p>
<p>i guess it should be 17 classes</p>
<p>I don't know...17 classes would be worth it, but there was a cat on PR awhile ago who was like a semester away from graduating but chose to start almost all over from scratch just because Harvard accepted him...</p>
<p>I mean, you people do realize that Harvard has a graduate/law school don't you?</p>
<p>Are you sure he chose to start all over again? Harvard doesn't allow people in their third year to transfer I believe.</p>
<p>Sorry! What I forgot to say is that each Dartmouth class is 1 credit so that's all but three of my classes.</p>
<p>Most schools say that you cannot transfer with more than 2 years. Basically you cannot transfer as a current junior but you can transfer as a sophomore going into your junior year. That being said certain schools like MIT require that you be there 3 years and certain schools that are really snooty (cough Princeton) don't take any transfer credits.</p>
<p>so you are saying that as long as I am not a Jr by year, I should be okay, correct?</p>
<p>how do private schools view transfer applicants with over 60 credits?</p>
<p>I think the best bet is to call them and ask.</p>
<p>if you've changed majors, especially if more than once, it's not a bad idea to transfer with 60+</p>
<p>Each university has its own policy; Harvard, if I am not mistaken, automatically rejects applicants with more than 60 credits. Rice, on the other hand, accepts applicants under the proviso that they will complete 60 credits at Rice itself.</p>
<p>Yeah I can't remember if it was Harvard, actually I think it might have been Wharton, but whatever school it was that was definately a bogus decision</p>
<p>yeah that is kind of ridic. I wouldn't start over again. that is dumb.</p>
<p>Hmm.</p>
<p>So if you manage to take full advantage of your school's offerings and do take over 60 credits because you overloaded some classes to do a bit of everything, no school will accept you as a transfer?</p>
<p>Do all of these provisos apply to CC or combined 4-year/2-year classes? (Ie, if you took a year of 4-year classes, but then for some reason had to go to a 2-year, and ended up with over 60 credits, or went to a 2-year and went over-zealous and took over 60 credits.)</p>
<p>Hey, after my first year of actual college next year, I may have 68 credits (4.5 semester~). But most of them are superfluous and do not go towards my majors of Russian and International Business. These classes include Spanish (I'm majoring in a foreign language), Chemistry, and Biology. I am transferring 6 credits each from high school. This could potentially be disastrous. I'm taking 19 credits next year as I want to look enticing to possible transfer schools if I decide that's what I want to do since my current institution does not provide international business nor international economics as a major. So, what should I do?</p>
<p>if you are accepted (and i think most ivys will take your app as long as you are not officially a junior), no matter how many credits they take, youll need to take the equivalent of 60 credits and/or spend 4 semesters in residence, depending on the school.</p>
<p>fyi, yale took all but one of my classes (not counting phys ed), though they've only evaluated my first three semsters, about 45 credits, so far.</p>
<p>I'm aware that if they accept you, you usually have a max transfer limit. That makes perfect sense; every university has a residency requirement (every one I've run across, anyway), and so they need to leave enough space that you can fulfill that with full time at their school for 1-3 years. </p>
<p>But will they even accept your application if you're over a certain amount? If you go over a certain amount, does that mean you're stuck with your A.A., and can never get anything else? How does that work?</p>
<p>lol you were one of the 2 people Yale Selected ;), how the freak did you pull that off?</p>