<p>I just transferred to Stony Brook University and I was wondering If there are any good schools that are lenient in accepting transfer credits. Stony brook won’t accept any of my math classes above their MAT 303 level for credit which includes 7 classes that I took at my previous institution. They found equivalent courses but wont give credit because it is above their MAT 303. This seems unjust and I was just wondering how commonplace it is for schools to reject credit for courses above a certain level?</p>
<p>They also won’t give me credit for Linear Algebra because there is one section at the end of the class that Stony Brook teaches that my previous institution did not. I hardly think that’s a good enough reason to warrant my paying another grand and spending 6 months retaking a class I already received an A in because of one lesson.</p>
<p>sorry, acceptance of transfer credits are school AND department specific. You should contact target schools BEFORE apply. It is unfair, but there are colleges want to have you retake ALL of the classes in your major. If you don’t like that, do not apply.</p>
<p>A lot of schools will only accept lower division transfer credit. They want you to complete the bulk of your major coursework at their institution in order to get a degree from them, which is quite understandable. I don’t really see it as being too unfair. If you do 3 years at college x, then transfer to college y for your last year, you have not really -earned- a college degree from college y. You’d have barely done any actual coursework there. </p>
<p>Well most schools already have a requirement that that you need to complete at least 2 years worth (60 credits) of material to graduate from them. I took those classes and did well in them (all A’s) to make me more qualified for admittance. I thought the rule was that if you have a course that’s equivalent then it transfers. I guess not if they’re hard courses.</p>
<p>Most schools also have a cap on the number of transfer credits that they’ll accept. It’s completely up to them to accept a course as prerequisite fulfillment beyond that point. </p>
<p>You can write a letter of petition to the academic dean or provost asking for special consideration. Try it. </p>
<p>Would it be correct to assume that the courses were not listed at <a href=“Transfer Equivalency | Academic and Transfer Advising Services”>http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/advising/_transferinfo/course_eqiv.html</a> so that you could have looked them up beforehand?</p>