Anyone go to community college & transfer to a 4 year university?

[GT1999]

I got my associates from Joliet Junior College, which transferred in as 66 credits to another in state college, Illinois State University. I also applied w/ the FAFSA... the FAFSA is a beautiful thing, I got a lot of free grant money from it.

 

[Unitary]

I transferred from a CC to a Univ of California. The CC and UC had a transfer agreement where if I took certain classes and maintained a 3.0 gpa, I had automatic acceptance to the UC. The best part was that when I transferred all my lower division requirements were automatically satisfied and only had to finish my upper-division major requirements and one upper division English class. (Done in two years after transferring.) Definitely the way to go!

 

[Ricemarine]

I transferred 120 credits from two CC's. Will not do that again if I could.

 

[DCal430]

Yes to both of your questions. You can choose not to transfer some classes and the grades do transfer. It's possible that you might not be able to transfer some classes, but most of the standard lower division classes should be fine.

My university did not allow for any thing like that. All classes that could transfered were. You were not allowed to pick and choose.

 

[DCal430]

I actually didn't transfer though. I simply withdrew from the university before my freshman year started and re enrolled after 2 years of going to a CC. It was not a transfer, since their was no admission process, just me saying I will start attending the university now. I did this to save money.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

In CA the California Community College system have agreements with the UCs and CSUs, so transferring works pretty well. It is pretty simple to look up which classes you need to take at a CC to transfer, and which classes are transferable.

When I transferred, they transferred all the classes which were transferable, which were all the ones that I took.

 

[Gibson486]

Yes to both of your questions. You can choose not to transfer some classes and the grades do transfer. It's possible that you might not be able to transfer some classes, but most of the standard lower division classes should be fine.

Depends....is some colleges, credits transfer, but grades do not....

 

[Jeff7]

I transferred credits from LCCC to Penn State. It knocked out a bunch of basic math and writing courses for me, leaving me able to focus more on things related to my major.

It can be a nice way of taking care of gen-ed courses at a significant cost savings. Just be sure ahead of time that the credit transfer will be accepted at the university.

 

[ModerateRepZero]

one of my roommates was a transfer student...but not all of his credits transferred so he had to spend an extra year before he graduated.

 

[duragezic]

I did after one year. IIRC, the university's website had a list of which classes transferred, so assuming you knew you were going there, you could schedule your community college classes that way. In the end, all 31 of my 1st year credits transferred. None of my grades did though.

If you're not sure, I'm sure the community college's counselors had all that information so you took classes that transferred.

 

[chusteczka]

My recommendation is not to transfer classes in your major. Start classes in your major at the introductory level. This will provide a few advantages:

1. You will learn the material the 4-yr university wants you to learn for the degree. Otherwise, you may not be aware of what material may have been missed.
2. If the courses are easy, then it will solidify your knowledge of the basic material and strengthen your gpa with lower level classes. You may need this help later.
3. If the courses are difficult, you will know in the beginning and have the chance to re-evaluate your choice of major before it gets tough with the senior level classes.

A transfer student jumping straight into junior level classes can be tough. There is typically a one or two semester adjustment period where grades can suffer.

 

[LumbergTech]

You need to talk to the university you want to go to about the transfer information. Don't rely on your community college because the University is the only one who can give you the completely accurate answers about what they accept and don't accept. Most of my stuff transferred but a few things didn't count that the CC said would.

 

[DCal430]

Also avoid special needs classes like College Algebra. These never transfer.

 

[Zebo]

I see more and more people doing this as universities cost so damn much these days. My alma mater was ~ $250 a quarter now it's $3000 just 18 years later.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

In CA the California Community College system have agreements with the UCs and CSUs, so transferring works pretty well. It is pretty simple to look up which classes you need to take at a CC to transfer, and which classes are transferable.

When I transferred, they transferred all the classes which were transferable, which were all the ones that I took.

Exactly. 2 of my closest friends transferred to UCSD and UCLA. Their credits were pretty much all transferrable. They have agreements made and as to which classes can transfer and which can satisfy what, etc. Just make sure you check that out. Isn't there a whole website that talks about this and you can check up for which CC and stuff?

I had to do a little of this stuff because I took stuff during the summer and senior year of my high school because I was well ahead, so I had to make sure a few things transferred too.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

www.assist.org

 

[TridenT]

Yes to both of your questions. You can choose not to transfer some classes and the grades do transfer. It's possible that you might not be able to transfer some classes, but most of the standard lower division classes should be fine.

lol no. You cannot choose what classes not to transfer. This is true for public schools AFAIK.

You have to transfer all transferable classes. If you take Calculus II at your school and it isn't the equivalent of the other schools Calculus II then you might have to retake it or something. Talk to the CCs counselors and the university counselors.

 

[Q]

Grades transfer but GPA doesn't (which sounds weird yes). So when you go to a 4 year university, you start from scratch GPA wise.

And for classes transferring, they do but
1) It'll transfer as a lower class (ie. Calc 202 =/ Calc 202 at University) essentially meaning it's an elective and you'll have to take the real calc class at University
2) It'll transfer as elective

I didn't go to CC, but when I transferred from one 4 year school to another, I still lost a lot of credits.

 

[MarkXIX]

Wow! There are either a lot of different rules out there, or there's a lot of misinformation running around this thread.

I attended three different schools in the process of completing my degree. I started at Kansas State University, then took some classes with Barton County Community College (through the US Army). I went back to KSU for a full year and then transferred all of those credits (30) to Barton, where I completed my AS. Once I completed my AS, I was able to transfer nearly all of my credits to Fort Hays State University where I just finished my degree. There were virtually no lost credits in all of that process, though I did have to take additional credit hours in order to complete my 4-year degree plan. Those were nearly all upper level electives though.

Bottom line is this, have all your transcripts sent to the school you're hoping to attend and schedule an appointment to talk with your educational counselor.

Also, all my grades transferred from all colleges and were used in the final calculation of my GPA for graduation.

 

[Leros]

I took dual credit classes during high school (some of our advanced classes met the requirements for the local community college's classes so we could get credit at the community college while taking our high school class).

When I enrolled in university, the university let me pick and choose which credits I wanted to transfer from the community college. Some credits could be applied to different university classes, so I could choose that too.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Wow! There are either a lot of different rules out there, or there's a lot of misinformation running around this thread.

I attended three different schools in the process of completing my degree. I started at Kansas State University, then took some classes with Barton County Community College (through the US Army). I went back to KSU for a full year and then transferred all of those credits (30) to Barton, where I completed my AS. Once I completed my AS, I was able to transfer nearly all of my credits to Fort Hays State University where I just finished my degree. There were virtually no lost credits in all of that process, though I did have to take additional credit hours in order to complete my 4-year degree plan. Those were nearly all upper level electives though.

Bottom line is this, have all your transcripts sent to the school you're hoping to attend and schedule an appointment to talk with your educational counselor.

Also, all my grades transferred from all colleges and were used in the final calculation of my GPA for graduation.

Same.

It might have been like that here because the UC, CSU, and Calif. CC system seem to be cooperating to make sure things go smoothly. Transferring from a CC to a private college on the other side country might be more problematic.