<p>Does this apply post credit transcription, or is it based off the credit count at your current institution? The reason I ask is because Emory is weird in that its credit hour per class seems normalized. For instance, a rigorous calculus I class is worth the same amount of credits as a first-year writing class. Yet at my school a Calculus class was worth 4 credits, whereas my first year writing course was only worth 3 credits.</p>
<p>Anyone know how this works? I’m assuming that all courses are 4 hours per week, but that certainly would be an anomaly…</p>
<p>If granted credit, you will receive that credit for the equivalent Emory course. However, you will not receive more credit hours than you earned at your college. Thus, if you have a four-hour Calculus I course and a three-hour first-year writing course and are granted credit, you would receive credit for MATH 111-4 Hours and ENG 185-3 hours… even though ENG 185 is only offered at Emory as a four-hour class.</p>
<p>Also note that if you receive transfer credit for a course that carries a General Education TAG (e.g., HAP), it will fulfill that requirement, even though the course you took was 3 hours and not the 4 hours of Emory classes.</p>
<p>What do you mean it’s mainstream in assigning equal value? =/ I’m thinking that it’s an accreditation thing; they can’t grant you four hours of credit for a three-hour class.</p>
<p>"If granted credit, you will receive that credit for the equivalent Emory course. However, you will not receive more credit hours than you earned at your college. Thus, if you have a four-hour Calculus I course and a three-hour first-year writing course and are granted credit, you would receive credit for MATH 111-4 Hours and ENG 185-3 hours… even though ENG 185 is only offered at Emory as a four-hour class.</p>
<p>Also note that if you receive transfer credit for a course that carries a General Education TAG (e.g., HAP), it will fulfill that requirement, even though the course you took was 3 hours and not the 4 hours of Emory classes."</p>
<p>I’m slightly confused. How can a class satisfy a requirement yet not grant equal credit? Wouldn’t that mean I would end up satisfying my GER’s with less credits than a traditional Emory Student, meaning also that I would have to take a greater amount of classes to graduate?</p>
<p>“What do you mean it’s mainstream in assigning equal value?”</p>
<p>I was responding to this:</p>
<p>“The reason I ask is because Emory is weird in that its credit hour per class seems normalized. For instance, a rigorous calculus I class is worth the same amount of credits as a first-year writing class.”</p>
<p>At the better colleges, the notion is that students woke equally hard in all classes.</p>
<p>That’s not the notion at all…I think the idea is that certain courses inherently require a greater amount of study. I agree, however, that this notion is ridiculous. As someone who works in a writing center, I often see many mathematically-inclined students (who easily breeze through college level math classes) but are forced to spend a great deal of time in order to write a simple 4-page essay for a college writing class. And so in this way, the difficulty of the courses is mostly subjective, and thus should not be ranked arbitrarily.</p>
<p>Let’s say you took a 3-hour microeconomics course. Emory would grant you credit for ECON 101: Principles of Microeconomics–3 Hours. This course carries the HSC GER tag, which you will receive credit for as if you had taken the four-hour course at Emory.</p>
<p>Thus, it is possible that you could satisfy some of the GER requirements with fewer total credits that those who started at Emory. However, the requirements to graduate are the same for all students: 2 years of residency (minimum), completion of at least one major, GPA of 2.0 in major and overall, completion of all GER requirements, and 131 hours of credit. </p>
<p>Thus, you are not being punished for being on a different system (you receive the same number of total credit hours that you already had).</p>
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<p>Number of credit hours is not correlated to the difficulty of a course. Individual departments are free to determine how many credit hours their courses will be worth, in compliance with Accreditation Standards that set minimum contact hours per credit hour. Here, the sociology department teaches an 8-hour summer course.</p>
<p>At most schools, the elementary calculus series (Calc I-III) comprises four-hour courses because they meets more time each week, usually including extra practice or a “lab” component. However, the upper-level math classes at these schools usually carry three hours, even though they are not any less rigorous.</p>
<p>“Thus, it is possible that you could satisfy some of the GER requirements with fewer total credits that those who started at Emory. However, the requirements to graduate are the same for all students: 2 years of residency (minimum).”</p>
<p>That’s exactly my point. I would end up having disequilibrium between actual classes and actual credit hours. It would leave me having to take, at least from my initial calculation, 6-10 additional classes (compared to the traditional Emory student) in order to graduate.</p>
<p>But this would serve as a problem not merely for my GER; it would jeopardize my major. As someone who has already taken many of the core classes for my major, this synthesis would potentially leave me completing my major prior to actually fulfilling the 44 hour credit distribution…</p>
<p>I called Emory Admission, and they told me that this sounded absurd. I’m not trying to be incredulous, but there’s something very aloof in your calculation. Either a 3 credit hour class is not considered sufficient and they disregard it altogether, or it’s replaced equivalently. Anything in between and it’s a logistical nightmare in the long-run.</p>
<p>As a student who transferred in, your illustration does sound absurd. Nevertheless, aigiqinf’s description of the process is accurate. Therefore, I’m pretty sure that (no offense) it is your perception of your situation that is skewed. </p>
<p>You can transfer in up to 64 credits. It doesn’t matter if those credits are for 21ish 3 credit classes, or 16 4 credit classes. In my case I had a lot of 3 credit, and some 5 credit and 6 credit classes from my last institution. Either way, only 64 transferred with me to Emory. I don’t see why it would matter if your old institution had 3 credit or 4 credit classes…it just means you’ll be able to transfer more of them in.</p>
<p>You will have to take the difference between the number of credits you transfer in with and the number of credits needed to graduated (132 credits, 128 academic) at Emory. Emory will only meet one of your writing requirements with transfer credit by policy, but waives a couple of their other requirements for transfer students on a case by case basis (they waived PE requirements for me, for instance). Most Emory transfers do not transfer in as a Junior, as I did, they transfer in as a Sophomore. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what to say about the rest of your concerns other than that I’m not sure you’ve researched and/or thought this out all of the way. How have you done most of your core classes for your major, and what makes you think that Emory’s department for your major is even going to accept them at all? Major requirement transfers are up to the individual department, and I don’t believe that they are super keen on transferring in much credit in that category. Why would they give you an Emory degree in a field where the majority of your education was someplace else? I think a more likely scenario is that Emory won’t accept that credit and you’ll need to take Emory’s classes in your major. This is, though, just speculation.</p>
<p>Your entire post to me honestly reads like someone for whom transfer may not be the best option. Why do you want to transfer? In my case, I completed an associates degree at a 2-year college, so transfer was a perfect (only) option; for many other students, they realize that their old schools do not have programs as solid as Emory’s for the major they would like to declare as Juniors and so they transfer in. You don’t sound like someone who has good reasons to transfer, perhaps you could elaborate on what you’re trying to accomplish?</p>
<p>You would take more classes only insomuch as your current institution differs from Emory. Thus, if you took 16 credit hours, that would probably be 5 three-hour classes and a PE. That’s equivalent, credit-wise, to 4 four-hour class here. You’re not doing anymore work, your courses are just divided into different units than ours.</p>
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<p>Not at all. The college decides whether or not to grant you credit for a class, but whether or not that class can be counted toward the major is entirely at the discretion of the Director of Undergraduate Studies for that major. “Courses taken at another institution, before or after enrolling at Emory, will not count toward the major unless written permission is given by the director of undergraduate studies, even if the College has accepted credit for the courses.”</p>
<p>The major is effectively under the complete control of its department. Further, the major is completed by finishing classes, not through completing a certain number of credit hours. I was granted three hours of transfer credit for ECON 112. Thus, I will complete the ECON/MATH joint major with 55 hours instead of the usual 56. </p>
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<p>Accreditation requirements prohibit Emory University from granting you more credit hours for a class than you earned. Thus, it is simply beyond their power to grant you four hours of credit for a three-hour class taken elsewhere.</p>