Inelligible transfer applicant?

Transfer Students
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>After completing HS I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life. Aside from working full time after graduation, I also attended the local community college. I wasnt enrolled in a degree seeking program, I only took welding classes during this time. However, the school does offer a Associates of Applied Since in Welding Technology. Due to this I received roughly 30 college credits, albeit, in Welding. </p>

<p>This past fall, a couple years from the time I originally went to CC for welding, I started work towards a BS (in Applied Mathematics). I am now finishing up my second semester at CC (with a 4.0) and will be transferring to a state university for my sophomore year this upcoming fall. </p>

<p>My plan is to complete my sophomore year at the in state university before applying for a junior year transfer. At this point however, I am beginning to worry that I might be ineligible to transfer to some of the schools I would like to apply to. </p>

<p>Take MIT for example:</p>

<p>per mitadmissions.org</p>

<p>Eligibility </p>

<p>… However, we cannot accept applications from students who at the time of entry to MIT will have finished less than one year or more than two and a half years of college.</p>

<p>Or Harvard:</p>

<p>Criteria for Eligibility as a Transfer Applicant</p>

<p>•Students who have completed more than two years of college study with transferable credit, and those who have earned a bachelor’s degree, are not eligible to transfer to Harvard College. Students may not choose to relinquish academic credits, or a degree, in order to apply for transfer admission.</p>

<p>I am certain that the credits I received from welding will not transfer to these schools, yet they are still considered college level courses. Would I be ineligible to apply to either of these schools (or those with similar eligibility criteria)? Please Help!</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Call them and ask. Explain that your first 30ish units were in a trade and were not academic coursework.</p>

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<p>*Ineligible </p>

<p>sorry for being an ass lol. it was bothering me.</p>

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<p>MIT and Harvard… don’t waste your time. On some years there isn’t a single transfer accepted to these schools on these forums despite multiple people with 2300+, 4.0’s, from top schools…</p>

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<p>The Common Data Set for MIT, transfers were accepted in all of the 8 years given:</p>

<p>[MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“MIT Institutional Research”>MIT Institutional Research)</p>

<p>H started taking transfer students in Fall 2010 after a two year hiatus, which they said was due to lack of housing.</p>

<p>Note: I’m not encouraging the OP to try to apply to these schools, the actual data should do quite the opposite.</p>

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<p>Yeah, seems like you took vocational classes or something of that nature.</p>