Transfer wants to change major

bernie12
Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:52:05 +0000

Wow, really? I don’t know why an external transfer would need a 3.7. Normally the math and econ. classes are significantly harder (and yet Emory won’t accept the credit) at other institutions. Yes, even less selective publics. We need not even talk about more selective public schools. We have some very stuck up policies in terms of accepting credit and admissions for transfers that make no sense. Some of it just seems to be Emory pretending to be more rigorous or better than other places by implying that “our course doesn’t fall in line w/your course’s syllabus”. This may work for the sciences, but doesn’t really work for anything else.
They already screwed over one of my friends who was a transfer from Georgia Southern this way as they did not accept her intro. econ. credit. I assured her, it provided an adequate background to go on to the B-school, and to enjoy wasting her time retaking the course at Emory (probably easier than HS econ.).