I’ve been wanting to save my classes specific to my major till after I transfer to the four year University. I didn’t know if this could lessen your chance of being admitted though as they may want to see you getting good grades in the major you want to pursue at their university. Anybody have some better insight on this question?
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You need to be prepared for your major before transfer. The target school should provide a list of required and recommended courses.
For example, here is the website of transfer planning sheets for the university of Washington:
https://admit.washington.edu/apply/transfer/academic-planning-worksheets
It is best to complete the lower level courses for your major before transfer. Otherwise, you will have to “catch up” after transfer, which could delay graduation and increase costs.
You are going to be entering as a sophomore or junior. Schools would like to see you at the same or similar spot that their students, in that major.
So if School X requires or recommends their students to declare a major by the end of their sophomore year, and you plan based on credits to transfer in as a first-semester junior, they are going to want you to be declaring a major… You should have any and all pre-requisites for that major completed, and be adequately prepared to hit the ground running. The less catch-up work, the better.
I agree with the previous posters. Many schools won’t even consider you if you don’t meet the pre-reqs, or if you didn’t take the freshman courses that their freshmen would normally take. They don’t want to accept someone who is entering as a second-semester sophomore or junior who doesn’t even have the freshmen pre-reqs done.
I was mainly asking the question on the assumption that I would try and enter as a sophomore. Not all of my basic courses will be completed yet and so I didn’t know if it could be acceptable to just do courses like science, history etc…and save my business specific courses to take at UGA for the rest of my admitted sophomore year.
Since you have a specific school and specific major in mind, you should ask the school directly.
In addition, don’t take upper division courses even if they’re offered by your community college, often schools will have a maximum amount of major-specific units you can transfer over.
So, looking at the UGA Business College requirements…typically students apply to the major of choice second semester of their Sophomore year. So, I think you would need to be on track to do that. So, you would need to be ready to take all the prereqs for that upon entering, in your Sophomore year. Know what I mean? So, for example, when you apply to the major, you need to have completed, or be taking precalc and their Acct 2101, etc… So, if you haven’t done those yet, you need to be ready to take them your first year there. So, did you take precalc? If not, did you take necessary courses to enter precalc when you get there? Etc… for all of their requirements to declare the major soon after applying. Of course you also need to make sure that if you have taken the required course that they will transfer as is. See below for an example. I’d want to make sure that I was ready to be exactly like these sophomores.
http://www.terry.uga.edu/media/documents/undergraduate/four-year-plans/4-yr-plan-acct.pdf
But would you be more competitve if you were ahead of that? Maybe.
All of that said, looks like they take apps to majors in Fall and Spring, so I suppose you could apply to the major in your second year there, in the Fall, giving you three semesters to complete the required courses. But looks like they are very competitive, and you will have a better chance of getting in if you’re on track like most of their Sophomores who are on track.
But bottom line, you can do all the online research, but you won’t know for sure how your situation checks out without talking to someone there. For example, I know the schools in CA don’t accept Sophomore transfers. Do they?
“Students who have not completed 30 or more transferable hours following their graduation from high school are ineligible for transfer admission. Students must have at least one complete year of full-time college enrollment resulting in 30 or more transferable hours delivered on their official college transcripts by the transfer application deadline to be considered for transfer admission to UGA.” And these must be completed with a 3.20 See their FAQ’s on transfer admission for more if you haven’t yet.
I would look at the 4-year plan for what I ultimately wanted to major in , and make sure I was on track with their sophomores.
Good luck.