<p>Anyone have experience transferring between these two types of schools?</p>
<p>If one wanted to transfer from one college to another, one with a quarter system, the other with a semester system, but left the first with good academic standing, would you pretty much lose your whole first year because credits don't transfer between semester/quarter colleges?</p>
<p>Don't know if this matters as well, but the semester college would be a private/religious university, and the quarter college would be a state flagship OOS.</p>
<p>Every school is different, but in general quarter credits will transfer to a semester system at a 2/3rds rate. So, if you did a year-long calculus sequence for 12 quarter credits it would transfer in as 8 semester credits, which is how many semester credits a typical year long calculus course costs.</p>
<p>The place where it may get tricky is if there is only one class and not a sequence. For instance if you only took calculus I at your current school. That is nothing going to be equivalent to calc I at the new school. So you may have to take it over or possibly take a challenge exam.</p>
<p>No, you will not lose your whole first year. Like TPG says, it depends on the school you’re transferring to and how they convert units and courses. </p>
<p>My D has a friend who transferred from a qt to a sem college and they converted all of her qt units straight over to sem, so she got a great deal unit-wise. Every school is different, so if they don’t state their policy on their website, give them a call.</p>
<p>You won’t lose all your credits but historically you can get jipped and lose a lot, when I applied for transfer from a semester school one of the schools I applied to was a on a quarter system. I had 43 semester credits from my old school and the school on a quarter system decided to award me 43 quarter credits. Which would have made me still a freshman going into my first quarter there even though I had already completed three semsters</p>