<p>Hey, so I've been at this 4-year private university for two years and want to transfer. So far I'm a junior in standing (credit wise) and I calculated that I have 105 quarter credits (if they transfer). </p>
<p>I'm afraid that all that hard work in my courses and all my credits (or some) won't transfer over to UCSD. I contacted my own academic advisor and they said that they can't help because apparently it's not in their speciality. I don't know how to tell which classes will transfer and which won't.
Does anyone have any similar stories or what happened to them? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>It will be a difficult process and you may not get several of your credits. Well, you will get them all, but some of them will be classified as “extra electives not needed” and will do you no good towards graduation. My daughter transferred from a semester system, four year private school. It has been a hassle to say the least.</p>
<p>Each class has to be petitioned for approval to count for the UCSD version. Classes that sound exactly like UCSD ones have been denied. A few have been approved, but less than we had hoped.</p>
<p>You can’t even begin the petition process until the third week of your first quarter. It makes registering for your first quarter classes extremely stressful because you won’t know if you have the prerequisites or not. Major courses have to be petitioned thru the major advisor, and GEs have to go through the college system. </p>
<p>Best case she will need two extra quarters, even taking four classes each quarter, when most kids take three. Its frustrating. We were led to believe at transfer admit day that many more credits would have been accepted.</p>
<p>Are you at a school on the quarter system? That might work to your advantage.</p>