<p>I am enrolled in two universities and taking 12 credits at both. What are the repercussions for doing this? I plan on transferring out of both to another college so if credits transfer back, it doesn’t really matter. Add/Drop deadline is September 15th so I would prefer if this didn’t get moved to a forum with low traffic like the last thread I posted.</p>
<p>Several I can see: (1) flunking everything because you don’t have enough time to devote to anything, (2) the school to which you wish to transfer (UMich?) figuring out what you pulled at your last schools and denying you because they conclude you’re less than a completely honest person, (3) having no life.</p>
<p>You could always take the honest approach and ask them both… just a though.</p>
<p>If you are planning on transferring your credits to a third school, then why is it any problem at all that you are taking classes at two places at once? Students do it all the time. They might take a class or two at a community college while enrolled in a 4 year university. Students might take classes at an institution other than their “home” school during the summer. When you transfer to someplace else, the information from all of the other schools goes on your transcript.</p>
<p>I would be worried about taking a total of 24 credits at once. I can’t imagine anyone being able to carry such a heavy load and succeed.</p>
<p>Four year schools (as opposed to community colleges) are more likely require special permission to enroll simultaneously in another college or university.</p>
<p>At some 4-year colleges, at least, even concurrent enrollment at a CC requires permission. For example, if you were a student at UIUC and wanted to enroll at the same time in a course at the local CC, UIUC requires you to fill out a form that states: " Students are allowed to attend either the University of Illinois while a student at Parkland College or Parkland College while a student at the University of Illinois, provided the stipulations of such concurrent enrollment are certified by the appropriate institutional official," viz., “I certify that __________________________ has completed the published prerequisites, and is eligible to seek enrollment in the course(s) listed, provided that space is available and admission requirements have been met,” and among the requirements are, “1. Consult your academic advisor to discuss the advisability of concurrent enrollment. 2. Request that an assistant dean or associate dean of the college in which you are enrolled, sign this form.”</p>
<p>OP, in order to reduce confusion & help answer your question - are you doing something sneaky / without permission or are you just curious about administrative details from enrolling in two schools at once?</p>
<p>I can’t imagine why on earth you would want to do something like this and I can’t imagine that the third college (if you decide you want to transfer) would look at your transcripts, notice the dates and wonder the same thing. I can’t even imagine how you work your schedule to get 12 credit hours in at two different locations unless one you’re doing at night and one during the day and finally I can’t imagine the additional costs in fees etc. that paying two different colleges is costing you. The whole situation sounds just plain weird so be careful or you might end up zero for three instead of three for three. Best of luck to you whatever you end up doing.</p>
<p>^^ I think when he asking about repercussions, it is the former.</p>
<p>I am doing something “sneaky” and credit load doesn’t really worry me as I did 13 in a half semester over the Summer. What I am worried about is repercussions from the universities I currently am at as I have talked to a Michigan counselor and told her I was supplementing my x education with classes at y. She didn’t seem worried about it but I am wondering if the colleges I am enrolled at have the basis to “expel” me or something. This all came about after I tried to overload at my initial university, was denied and I realized I could enroll at another.</p>
<p>Let’s say I were the University of Michigan, evaluating a student who, contrary to the rules and to what he had agreed to at his college, signed up for courses at another college, for a total of 24 units. I would say to myself, wow, 24 units is a lot. I wonder how he managed to complete all those units. Then I would say to myself, hmm, we already know he is someone who pays no attention to rules he has agreed to follow. Since I have no confidence in his integrity, how do I know he didn’t just cheat to pass all those courses?</p>
<p>It is likely the person from Mich didn’t seem concerned because he or she assumed that you were doing this with the onset of the first university. At most four year schools you need approval before enrolling or taking even summer classes somewhere else. I’m not sure at this point how you “fix” this. Perhaps another poster has some ideas.</p>
<p>At the university where I am employed, students must receive approval to take more than a set # of credit hours per semester. Also, if you aren’t paying for it yourself, you can only receive Financial Aid at one school (NOT BOTH). Those are the main red flags that come up for me.</p>
<p>We do have students take credits at nearby schools at the same time as they take credits at our institution, so it’s fairly common, but not a FT load at each school.</p>
<p>are you an incoming freshman?</p>
<p>there is absolutely no way you can handle 24 credits (7-8 classes?), even if your taking ridiculously easy classes</p>
<p>“credit load doesn’t really worry me as I did 13 in a half semester over the Summer”</p>
<p>did you take these 13 credits in the same session or spread out over multiple sessions? summer classes are significantly easier than those during the regular semester, and you shouldn’t be judging the difficulty of a 24-credit courseload by your summer experience.</p>
<p>i’m fairly certain that being concurrently enrolled in two universities without each one’s permission is not allowed, but it’s obviously unlikely that either of them would find out. even if you were to go through with this, when you apply as a transfer the situation will look very strange and will probably raise a few red flags
most importantly though, you won’t be able to handle 24 credits. you will understand after the first week of classes. just make sure you drop them in time before getting withdraw’s on your transcript</p>
<p>Yes, I am an incoming freshman. For Summer, I took 19 credit hours, 6 in the first 7 week semester and 13 in the second 7 week semester.</p>
<p>run2flyfree you seem determined to “beat” the system. Good luck with that.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t advise taking 24 hours, but I disagree with the posters who state it is impossible. I took 21 hours, while working 50 hours a week, my last semester of college. I earned 5 A’s and 2 B’s. This was a respected LAC without grade inflation and they were all accounting/business classes. Sometimes you do what you gotta do…Having said that, I wouldn’t advise it, even if your other registration problems were ok…after 25 years, I still have nightmares about that semester!</p>
<p>Thank you sryrs for half validating the ability to do this. In response to that, I am most likely going to a much less rigorous school(s) than you are while not working and probably not taking as many classes with proglem sets(1 maybe 2). So the load I believe is quite doable but my problem right now I am wondering about is academic reperecussions.</p>