Finishing Community College

comfortablycurt
Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:46:58 +0000

In my experience, advisers at community colleges are either really knowledgeable, or totally clueless. There are one or two at my school that really know what they’re talking about as far as how courses transfer, what courses someone should take to get into a given school etc. Some of them don’t really know what they’re talking about though.

Personally, I’ve figured out my course plans and looked into transfer credit on my own. Most states have some kind of articulation agreements, and many of them have websites that will tell you exactly what courses will transfer as. You enter the courses you’ve taken at CC, and select the school you’d like to transfer them to. The information on there is kept pretty up to date, so it’s pretty reliable. The transfer.org page for Illinois is fantastic.



Grades don’t transfer; keep this in mind when evaluating the importance of your 4.0.



What? That’s not how it is in Illinois. After I transfer, I’ll basically have three GPA’s. My GPA from CC, my GPA at UIUC, plus my overall cumulative GPA.