<p>So, I'll be starting at Community College of Philadelphia in the fall. They have a dual admissions agreement with Drexel but that's way too much money. Penn State seems like a great fit for me and is a lot closer to my price range. </p>
<p>I checked out the College of Engineering's transfer requirements. CCP offers the appropriate courses, and I'm confident that I can maintain the GPA. However, while the transfer requirements page said that 50% of CoE students did not start at University Park, the verbiage seemed to suggest they all came from PSU branch campuses.</p>
<p>If I road map properly and take hard math courses and keep up a high GPA, is there a feasible chance for me to transfer to the CoE for CompSci/CompEng for my junior year? If that's not something they allow I'll start looking at road mapping for a school about which I'm less excited.</p>
<p>Definitely call and ask them right away. There are some majors there at PSU that are super competitive, and the engineering majors are one of them. It -could- be such that they wouldn’t even allow transfer students into the major. I know for sure, that’s how it was for me because I wanted to transfer in after two years at a private college to the bioengineering major, and I had all the requirements/gpa/time, everything.</p>
<p>I emailed the dean of the College, and received the following response:</p>
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<p>John,</p>
<p>Students who are admitted as Freshmen into Penn State’s College of Engineering for a baccalaureate in computer science can start at any one of Penn State’s undergraduate campuses for their first two years of study. When they relocate to the University Park campus to finish their last two years of study they are not considered transfer students as they are Penn State students enrolled in the College of Engineering - regardless of their location.</p>
<p>Students who take credits at another institution besides Penn State, such as your situation in which you will take courses at the Community College of Philadelphia are transfer students. Admission as a transfer student into computer science depends on several factors including the institution you are transferring credits from, the courses you took, the grades you earned, and other factors, such as the size of the current undergraduate class. To maximize your chances of being admitted you should enroll in courses that will transfer to Penn State and which count towards earning a computer science degree and you should attempt to excel in your studies in these courses.</p>
<p>We have an undergraduate handbook which is available online which lists courses needed for graduation and can be found at <a href=“EECS - Majors, Minors, and Certificates | Penn State Engineering”>EECS - Majors, Minors, and Certificates | Penn State Engineering; In addition, the University has an online transfer credit tool which you can use to check on the transferability of courses. This tool can be found at <a href=“https://www.admissions.psu.edu/my_admissions/tas/[/url]”>https://www.admissions.psu.edu/my_admissions/tas/</a> In order to be admitted to the computer science major, whether as a student starting at Penn State or as a transfer student you must complete four courses, Math 140, Math 141, Phys 211 and CmpSc 122 with a C or better. You should attempt to complete these before transferring to Penn State. If you are missing one course (e.g. often CmpSc 122) you can be admitted but on a provisional basis pending the successful completion of the missing course at Penn State.</p>