So I’m looking at transferring to Harvard and no matter how hard I look, I can’t find what the prerequisites are. For my local state university, there are a list of courses you have to take to even be considered for a certain college within the university. Help!
Your best bet is probably to discuss it with an adviser there. Transferring into Harvard isn’t going to be as streamlined of a process as transferring into your local state university. States generally have articulation agreements between community colleges and the state public schools saying that course x at ________ community college is equivalent to course y at _________ university. Harvard is more likely to directly evaluate your courses on a case by case basis. From what I’m seeing, their main requirements are the you’ve completed at least 1 year of college level coursework, but no more than 2 years. I don’t think you’re going to find a course articulation guide or anything like that. Presumably one should complete the typical required first year courses within ones major. They won’t do a credit transfer evaluation until after accepting you. They aren’t looking so much at what courses you’ve taken. They’re looking at you in a much broader sense. Taking a year of physics at a community college doesn’t necessarily qualify someone to transfer into physics at Harvard. However, being a stellar high school student with involvement in math competitions and science fairs, participating in summer research programs, AND completing a year of physics at a community college just might. You probably aren’t a physics major, but a similar point can be applied to basically any major.
edit-Just noticed that you mentioned business in the thread title.
So it’s safe to assume that as long as you’ve taken some introductory business courses and some GenEd courses that you’ll meet the “prerequisite requirements”, but again, that’s not necessarily the biggest issue with transferring into a school like Harvard. It’s quite possible that they wouldn’t even accept your business courses as transfer credit though. They may want you to retake the “equivalent” classes there. Which may not be a bad idea anyway.