I found out its website and you cannot transfer to university park campus unless you’ve completed 2 years of college work.
This is so devastating. Does IB count as college work?
You can transfer to a branch campus first and then transfer to UP as a junior, if that’s something that works better for you.
That is true. You either start at UP as a freshmen, or as a junior. From their admissions website:
"Transferring directly to University Park ◦Student must have completed two years (4 semesters) of full-time college coursework at another institution and/or another Penn State campus by the time of transfer to be eligible for admission.
◦Students with less than the 4 semesters of work are eligible to transfer to Penn State, but they must transfer to a campus other than University Park (and then work with their adviser and program on transitioning to University Park as a Penn State student)"
However, semester standing depends on credits, so if you got IB credit (typically 8 per HL), you can transfer a bit earlier.
Are you currently enrolled at a college or a branch campus?
They state 2 years of “Full Time” college work is necessary to transfer. So wouldn’t that mean IB or other dual enrollment credit wouldn’t count towards that? @MYOS1634
It’d have to be clarified with them directly, whether they mean 60 credits or actual semesters spent. Do semesters of work include credit from AP? IB? Dual Enrollment?
Classification is related to number of credit earned, so that anyone with 60 credits would be considered a junior regardless of how long they’ve been on campus.
So if someone with 24 credits from IB also had 60 credits of full time work, when they transferred to UP, they’d transfer with 84 credits, and I’m not sure that’s possible.