Want to transfer to a top engineering department, will colleges care if I have math/physics classes & sequences from multiple colleges?

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I am at a out of state 4 year uni, and switched majors. I want to transfer to a top engineering department my junior year, and to get classes done quicker and cheaper, I took Calc 1 at a local state community college and I also planning to take Calc 2 and Phys 1 over the summer at a for free at a California Community college(my home state). I checked and these courses transfer over to most colleges. Will top colleges like Georgia Tech, John Hopkins, Cornell, or USC care if I have 3 colleges on my transcript(80-90% of courses are still from my 4 year University).

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You need to contact their admissions departments at each school. It really shouldn’t make a difference unless they just don’t accept those courses. You need to make sure that you have all your ducks in a row including any DE courses you took at a community college while in high school.

Here’s the thing with top schools, like those you’ve mentioned, they typically don’t take too many transfers because you have to have a seat. You have to hope that a student, in their engineering department, drops out to make a space for you. If their engineering department is impacted, then you will have issues.

You will also need a VERY good reason for transfer. Getting through a program more rapidly isn’t a good reason.

Are you prepared for their costs of attendance? USC alone is at $90K per year. Transfers typically get limited to no financial aid. Can you afford that? Financial aid ain’t happening there if you weren’t admitted as a NMS Presidential winner.

If your major is engineering it doesn’t matter where you go. Prestige is overrated.

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Lots of schools like Columbia and Notre Dame have well established co-op programs where they take transfers from smaller schools that don’t have engineering departments. Some of these are 3-2, but I know Columbia takes kids from schools not signed in to the program. Most have a pretty high GPA requirements.

https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/apply/combinedplan

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The original poster is welcome to ask under their other account. Although really, they’ve asked variations of the question several times already. Regardless, since Terms of Service prohibits multiple accounts, I am closing this thread.

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