Chances for New Yorker?

badger2012
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:32:49 +0000

the classes i took were
english 101,communications,economics,algebra (non cred),workplace skills,and a athletic class. All together 15 credits,my second semester classes equal 18 credits which would put me at 33 while wisconsin only needs 24 to transfer…



Be careful with what you take though, your courses don’t have be extraordinarily difficult per se, but they have to be at an appropriate level of course rigor for UW to take the grades you get in them seriously. When I transferred I was told that the classes that didn’t transfer to UW as credit wouldn’t be considered when looking at how good my grades were overall. I highly doubt something like “Workplace Skills” will transfer as anything, and taking Algebra in college doesn’t reflect strongly on your overall course rigor (especially if it isn’t for credit, which tells me that it’s a remedial class).

I don’t know what your schedule looks like for next semester, but if you have something like “Workplace Skills” on it right now try to replace it with a math class of some kind (maybe Calculus), or a history course, a literature class, or something similar.

And it’s true that students from technical schools do transfer to UW, but unless you go to MATC it’s far from easy and usually much more difficult than trying to from a four year UW System school. I have a friend who was rejected as a transfer student by UW despite having a 4.0 GPA. A lot of his classes wouldn’t have transferred as anything to UW, so that undoubtedly hurt him quite a bit.