<p>The UC schools require that I complete all my lower division classes at community college before I transfer. This is my second year though, and I’ve just decided to change my major, which means I can’t transfer until Fall 2011.</p>
<p>If I’m also applying to schools like Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Stanford, Yale, etc, would it look bad if I’m applying as a junior, but I have three years of classes completed?</p>
<p>No, it’s normal. But make sure that your coursework is rigorous enough. Also, email admissions about this before applying - if you have too many units, some schools may refuse to consider you. You want to communicate to them that all your units come from a two-year institution, and they will likely note an exception.</p>
<p>What do you mean by rigorous coursework? I mean, what it “rigorous” compared to something that isn’t?</p>
<p>“rigorous”</p>
<p>Make sure that the courses that prepare you for transfer are courses that the target institutions are looking for. You should not have three years of classes labeled “developmental math” or the like.</p>
<p>stanford doesn’t accept credits from community colleges</p>
<p>accmajor, as in my credits won’t transfer to stanford and i’ll have to graduate in 4 years rather than 2?</p>
<p>Unit counts don’t matter for the UCs, you can take as much time as you want at a UC, or take as many classes, as long as those units are at community colleges.</p>
<p>Privates do on the other hand have unit limits for admissions even if they’re done at a community college, you just have to check each school on a case by case basis. Also I hope you’re also aware that privates (like the one’s you’ve listed) take into consideration more than just grades/gpa, they look into high school stats as well, and ECs</p>
<p>I’m not sure what source accmajor has as information, but it sounds kind of off. I think there was a student from the fall 2008 transfer pool, who got into schools like Stanford/Amherst/etc from a community college. Look back at old threads and you should find their posts. Stanford’s acceptance rate for transfers is so low, even lower than freshman admissions, that I think the real issue is with the number of very qualified applicants who probably shine out community college students in transfer admissions. A 4.0 from community college doesn’t look as good as 3.8 from a peer school of Stanfords.</p>
<p>Stanford does accept community college credits from transfers. You really think CC transfers start out as freshman?</p>
<p>Yes heerapatel, I read in the stanford website itself. No credit from community college will transfer. You can look up if you want to</p>
<p>As mentioned above, they will see your transcript and recognize that they are all lower level 100-200 level classes that you would generally take before completing upper level major courses. Schools look down on someone who takes those upper level courses and then tries to transfer without having an extremely good reason for transferring.</p>
<p>You can always call admissions and ask how they would prefer you mention your reason for the third year (major change) and they will either say don’t worry about it or they’ll suggest you mention it in the essay, in an addendum, or “other information” field in the application.</p>
<p>Yale won’t accept anyone with “too many” credits. See here: [Who</a> is Eligible to Transfer? | Transfer Students | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/transfer/who.html]Who”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/transfer/who.html)</p>
<p>wow CC “transfers” to stanford really have to start out as freshman? i’m not applying anyway, but that’s pretty interesting…</p>
<p>Stanford DOES accept CC credits for transfers. They just don’t have articulation agreements.</p>
<p>That is so unfortunate about Yale. So they won’t even look at my application, even if most of my credits don’t transfer over? I thought they gave “special consideration” to community college students…</p>
<p>Four-year universities that accept transfers will most likely evaluate your transcripts on a course by course basis and tell you what they will take, unless the university has an agreement with the community college. It may not benefit you greatly to spend three years at a community college if you are applying to some of the private schools you mentioned. You may want to consider applying to some four-year universities this year.</p>
<p>What about Columbia school of general studies? Am I allowed to apply there if I stay in community college for 3 years, but I graduated from high school in 2008? Does this make me “nontraditional”?</p>
<p>No, this does not make you nontraditional. Think 26 years +</p>