<p>Good Afternoon,</p>
<p>I am planning on transferring to USC in Fall 2014, going right into Marshall. I was wondering if anyone else on here got into Marshall without having their required Writing 140 equivalent? I received all As this semester and did their required Math course for Calculus, but my current institution does not have a course like the Writing 140. I spoke with a counselor a while back and they stated that they might be able to waive that course, just curious if anyone else had an experience with that?</p>
<p>Also, this past semester, I took 16 units (5 three unit courses and 1 one unit course). This semester I was planning on taking another 16, however there are really one 5 solid courses I can take that would equal only 13 units. All of my past and current courses either satisfy USC core or are directly transferrable, just wondering if it would be better to have 5 or 6 courses?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I am in a similar situation as far as meeting the required prerequisites for Marshall. I have a Writing 140 equivalent but my current school does not have any Business Calculus courses. Before submitting my application I called the admissions office and was told that both courses are required, however exceptions could be made under extenuating circumstances. After I submitted my app and was assigned a transfer counselor I sent him an e-mail explaining my situation and he got back to me saying that the course is required and that there is nothing he can do to help me, but I could find a course for the Spring semester elsewhere and send in the transcript (not going to happen at this point since it is over 2 weeks into the semester). Basically I had one person tell me I have a chance regardless and another tell me I need to get the class done this Spring or I’m out. I haven’t been able to find anyone else in this situation, but I would assume it to be fairly common. What did they tell you about waiving the course? </p>
<p>From what I have read on other threads as well as information received at USC info sessions is that they REALLY want you to have the writing requirement (for USC in general) and the math requirement (either Bus. Calc or regular Calc for Marshall) done before you transfer. The “extenuating” circumstances that the T.O was referring was in case you are transferring from a 4 year school whose English graduation curriculum differs from USC’s. In other words if you are transferring from…let’s say, another private school (LMU, Mt.SM, Biola, Occi) where their graduation requirements at THAT school don’t necessarily require you to take a class similar to Writing 140 (aka 2nd year of English) then USC might overlook that requirement (NOT waive it). So you would still have to take that course if and when you were admitted to USC. </p>
<p>If you simply say that your community college did not have the course they will not want to hear your sob story and simply say “well, I’m sure you could have found another local CC that did!” </p>
<p>Obviously the course would not be “waived” from the curriculum, I should have worded that as “excused as a transfer requirement”. In my situation I went from a community college to a four year for kinesiology, decided it was not something that I wanted to continue with, went back to community college to earn some more credits for less money and finish with an associate’s degree before making another transfer. Is the fact that I was majoring in kinesiology which did not require any such course be something they would look at and take into consideration? From what I understand, in the MA state system at least, calc for business is a level 100 course with very basic prerequisites, whereas calculus 1 requires precalc or trigonometry(could be wrong about trig) be taken beforehand. I took these classes in high school, but when I talked to all of the CC’s in my area they told me that high school does not matter and that I would have to fulfill the prerequisites for calc 1 at a college level. I have no clue why. There were absolutely no calc for business classes available at any of these CC’s. I just kind of hit a dead end which sucks because I know I would be fine in the class if they would have let me take it as I’ve already done a decent amount of calc for biomechanics while studying kinesiology…</p>