I had a cousin who went to Chaffey College in order to save money. When it came time for her to transfer she applied to several UCs and CSUs to get a degree in business. She also decided to apply to some private universities such as USC Marshall, NYU Stern, and UPenn Wharton. When she was done applying to all her colleges, she told me she decided not to apply to Wharton because apparently, Wharton doesn’t accept transfer credits from any community colleges or two-year institutions so she didn’t bother applying. Out of curiosity, I would like to know what would have happened if she did apply to Wharton. Would they have not even considered her application because it was from a community college? According to their website, Wharton determines if credits will transfer after the applicant is accepted so if by some miracle she was accepted and they found that none of her credits transferred, would they have revoked her acceptance? Or would they let her enroll but she would have to start out as a freshman? I think that last option kind of defeats the purpose of a transfer. So what do y’all think would’ve happened. This is all hypothetical of course.
Credits are typically evaluated on a case by case basis. They’d look at your classes and determine if they wanted to accept them or not. I’m not familiar with their transfer policies, but it would be incredibly odd for a school to have a policy to not accept transfer credit from community colleges. In most cases, credit for Gen Ed courses and most lower level major courses will be accepted. In either case, it’s definitely true that some schools are far more transfer friendly than others.
@comfortablycurt Wharton’s website says “No transfer credits are accepted from any community college or two-year institution.” I guess the school has a right to not accept credit from community college but I would like to know what would happen if someone tried to transfer to Wharton from a community college.
It’s very possible that completed courses would transfer in the form of the completion of a graduation requirement, even if the actual numerical credit doesn’t transfer. For example, if you’ve taken introduction to sociology at a community college, almost any school will accept the course. They may not grant you the actual numerical credit for it, but it will still count as part of the social science requirement. There are often policies in place that simply say that transfer students must complete x number of hours on their actual campus. This is typically around 60 for someone transferring in as a junior.
This may not be the case at Wharton. If they don’t even accept community college classes as requirement ‘credit,’ then there wouldn’t be much of a point for a CC student to look at Wharton.