<p>..if they determine that you wont have enough credits to graduate on time? Or is that process determined after a decision has been rendered?</p>
<p>I'm a bit confused because looking at Dartmouth's transfer policy (on the history department website), it states that only classes from few certain schools will be approved for transfer credit. </p>
<p>Basically:</p>
<p>Within the United States they include:</p>
<pre><code>* Morehouse College (Atlanta)
* Spelman College (Atlanta)
* University of California at San Diego (Muir College)
* Twelve-College Exchange:
o Amherst College
o Bowdoin College
o Connecticut College (also National Theater Institute)
o Mount Holyoke College
o Smith College
o Trinity College
o Wellesley College
o Wesleyan University
o Wheaton College
o Williams College (Mystic Seaport Program)
o Vassar College
</code></pre>
<p>The Department will not approve transfer credit from any institution except those mentioned above.</p>
<p>I don't think I will be able to graduate on time if Dartmouth truly only accepts history credits from those institutions. Here's the link: Transfer</a> Credit Policy Can someone help me out here?</p>
<p>I heard colleges like that their transfers “hit the ground running” in their majors. So if you don’t have a lot of the general education requirements out of the way, that might put you at a disadvantage. I don’t totally know if this is the whole truth, so take what I say with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>There is no advantage to a college to not admit you if you won’t graduate “on time” because every extra semester you have to spend there is more tuition income for them.</p>
<p>It looks to me that that list means they will only accept those those schools’s credits AFTER you are a Dartmouth student, ie. if you do a semester “abroad” at one of those schools. </p>
<p>That is the ONLY way that list makes sense…there’s no way Dartmouth won’t give you credit for, say, Columbia classes, if you went to Columbia for a year and then transfered. Indeed, I’m sure they will give you credits for most of the classes you took at your first school, even if it’s not as prestigious as Dartmouth. </p>
<p>I could be wrong, but really, even if Dartmouth only wanted to accept credit from their “peer” school for transfers, the Ivies would at least be on that list. That’s why I think that list is just abut study-abroad type credits.</p>
<p>I have a hard time believing that Dartmouth operates like that. I was accepted as a junior transfer from USC, which obviously would not have been the case had they been unwilling to articulate any of my credits.</p>
<p>“I’m a bit confused because looking at Dartmouth’s transfer policy (on the history department website), it states that only classes from few certain schools will be approved for transfer credit.”</p>
<p>Probably, these are institutions where the HISTORY department will guarantee transfer credit for HISTORY coursework. Whether you can get transfer credit for coursework in other departments, or “elective” credit for other history courses is another thing entirely. The decisions may be made on a case-by-case basis. Keep your old exams, papers, problem sets, course syllabi, etc. in case you need to petition for credit.</p>
<p>It is normal for colleges/universities to admit you first, and later determine which previous coursework is eligible for transfer credit. Most transfer applicants find out that not all of their courses transfer for credit directly applicable to the new degree program - essentially they “lose” some credits.</p>
<p>There are organizations that help colleges/universities determine course equivalency. Some have public access, such as ARTSYS which includes courses from all of the public and some of the private institutions in Maryland: [ARTSYS</a> Select ‘Transfer From’ & ‘Transfer To’ Institution](<a href=“http://www.acaff.usmh.usmd.edu/artweb/chgri.cgi]ARTSYS”>ARTSYS Select 'Transfer From' & 'Transfer To' Institution) Other organizations require membership, which means that ordinary folks like us can’t find out if X at Y university is equal to Z at W college.</p>
<p>Basically, you won’t know until you are already in whether or not your old credits transfer UNLESS you have attended a program that has a formal written articulation or guaranteed transfer agreement. If anyone tells you that X will transfer as Y while you are still in your application process, get it in writing.</p>
<p>In my experience, most departments at most schools are fairly flexible accepting transfer credits for equivalent classes until students matriculate there.</p>