<p>I plan to take some classes in the summer after my freshman year at a local community college and I was wondering how the process would work in transferring those credits over. If anyone could shed some light on the topic as well, that would be awesome.</p>
<p>well somewhere on the um site it has a listing of all the community colleges in michigan and the courses that transfer and what they transfer as…MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THIS BEFORE YOU TAKE ANY CLASSES!!! quite a few people end up taking classes that won’t transfer as what they want or won’t even transfer at all.</p>
<p>A lot of cc’s are fine. some of the upper level classes (calc 3, orgo) might not transfer depending on the college. You have to get above a C for that course to transfer. I’d recommend getting an A because your cc grades can easily affect your gpa if you apply to grad school. You can have a total of 60 AP/transfer credits coming into the U- I know people who like max out just with the stuff they achieved in hs, so they can’t take stuff at cc’s during actual college time. Also, if you take credits at the cc, you’d have more credits and then you could be paying upper division tuition sooner than you might prefer.</p>
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<p>Classes taken outside of UMich do not transfer for a grade to UMich. Grad schools are unlikely to care about unrelated classes taken at a community college. If you take related classes at a community college then you will likely be taking more advanced classes at UMich in the same subject and those will be considered more heavily than the ones at the community college. </p>
<p>First make sure the class transfers. The transfer guide for engineering can be misleading. If you are in CoE, some of the classes listed on their transfer guide will only transfer for specific majors requiring them specifically, and for no other majors. In LSA it should be much more straightforward, but beware that you will only be able to come in with a maximum of 60 credits for LSA. There’s no limit for how much you can transfer for CoE. </p>
<p>They might tell you to fill out some sort of guest student form thing. It’s not necessary. I personally took classes at a community college while enrolled at UMich, didn’t use this guest student thing, and had no problems. </p>
<p>After you take the classes, you need to send the transcript to the office. If you ask your adviser they will tell you the address. It will take a few weeks to a month to process to keep that in mind if you are hoping for earlier registration. </p>
<p>For Ross or LSA I heard there was some issue like in some cases credits transferred from community colleges only give you half the number of credits or garbage like that? I’m not really sure how that works, but if nubswithstubs comes into the thread he should be able to explain that. For CoE this does not exist, they will transfer all the classes for the same number of credits.</p>
<p>I can’t speak for any other graduate/professional schools, but medical schools do consider community college classes into gpa, even high school dual enrollment if your cc can produce a transcript.</p>