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4/20/2007
Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog. This blog is dedicated to helping college transfer students and their parents, advisors, faculty and friends as they plan transitions from one institution to another. More than 2.5 million students transfer - and it's not just moving from a community college to a university. Students are crossing all borders and we are building CollegeTransfer.net to help them find their way, with accurate and timely information.
We have spent two years building the database and user tools hosted on CollegeTransfer.net. We have searchable catalogs from more than 3,600 US schools for a total of over 3,500,000 courses and we are not finished yet. We are working feverishly to make this site valuable to you and others by adding transfer course equivalencies for as many schools as possible. Our goal is to give every student the ability to see how their courses would transfer from one school to another. If you are experiencing issues or would like to share your advice or insights on transfer with other users, please do so. If you would like us to connect with your institution, please let us know that as well.
My name is David Moldoff, and I'm founder and CEO of AcademyOne, the company which created CollegeTransfer.net. I work on college transfer issues nationwide helping public policy makers and higher education advocates gain an awareness of the special needs of college transfer students.
Join us in our mission to make the college transfer process as fast, easy and affordable as possible!!
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8 comments so far...
Re: Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog
I have earned approx. 64 semester college credits (after my BA) from accredited universities in education. Is there a way to obtain a Masters degree using most of my units earned?
By JB on
4/21/2007
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Re: Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog
I have earned approx. 64 semester college credits (after my BA) from accredited universities in education. Is there a way to obtain a Masters degree using most of my units earned?
By JB on
4/21/2007
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Re: Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog
It's harder transfer graduate credit. I couldn't use most of the credits I took post BS. Try 'shopping around' for the best deal, but don't expect too much.
By Allison on
4/23/2007
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Re: Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog
My daughter will have completed 32 credits at the end of this semester as a freshman engineering major from a very good public university. She wants to transfer schools and majors. I'm hoping you might be able to answer a few questions. We have learned so much more about the merit scholarship money available for freshman since she was in HS. It seems there is a lot more money out there for entering freshman. Do you know any schools on the East Coast that offer transfer scholarships? Can she just apply as a freshman since she will probably not be able to use many of her engineering courses for a liberal arts degree anyway? (Is this allowed?)
By Maria on
4/29/2007
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Engineering credits
Don't assume all 32 credits won't transfer and articulate to a new major. Usually initial courses in the first year could transfer as electives. It is hard to walk away from 32 credits. Ask your potential new institution to validate how prior courses will articulate to new chosen major. Some will do the mapping for you before enrolling. If you offer to tell us more, we could help point you in the right direction. Send us an email at info@academyone.com.
By David on
5/1/2007
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Re: Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog
I am new in the circle and hope to learn a lot over credits transfer issues.
I graduated with an associate, and i am trying to integrate a senior college for persuing my bachelor degree. I am worried enough that half of my credits being rejected. Therefore, if anybody is willing to help me, i will be pleased.
By dmaiga on
5/10/2007
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Re: Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog
I am in the process of getting my ASSOC. degree in Liberal arts and I want to know what schools will accept my whole degree or at least most of it? Please help me, I'm at a loss as to where to turn.
By mfoukarakis on
5/30/2007
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Re: Welcome to the CollegeTransfer.net blog
Completing your ASSOC degree is an important step and should offer you good options for transfer regionally. I would recommend visiting your current college advisor and asking for a list of schools who have transfer articulation agreements in place today for your degree. Usually, a community college publishes these agreements on their website. Sometimes they don't make them available unless you ask. A transfer articulation agreement is like a block transfer of credits. They vary in format and complexity. Many will take all your credits and apply them as a block helping you achieve junior status. Others don't.
If you are contemplating transfering to a school that does not have any transfer articulation agreement in place, the destination school will review your transcript usually at the course level to match what you have completed to their academic program. They usually review the course content, instructor, what they perceive as rigor and difficulty, course objectives, outcomes and skills learned. Part of the problem in this process is it is very labor intensive to do this for every prospective student thinking of applying. So, many schools only offer to do this analysis on the basis you at least apply and enroll. Problem with this approach is you have no idea what will transfer and risk losing credits after the fact.
Your best bet given your circumstances of completing your ASSOC degree is to find schools that will accept it on block and avoid going course by course evaluation if you want to retain as much of the investment as possible in your course work. Again, talking with your current school's advisor, should render some help.
No matter what, prepare. Get course listings, print your transcript, print down your course descriptions and syllibi to share with what ever school you are going to be interested in transfering too.
The CollegeTransfer.Net site will eventually have transfer articulation agreements posted by schools to allow prospective students to find schools who will take an ASSOC degree. We are not there yet. So, in the meantime, you have to do the hard work school by school.
I hope that helps. If you need further assistance, you can call us or email us at info@academyone.com.
By David on
5/31/2007
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