{"id":51,"date":"2014-10-08T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:04:44","slug":"do-i-need-a-certain-number-of-credits-before-i-can-apply-to-transfer-to-another-college","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/do-i-need-a-certain-number-of-credits-before-i-can-apply-to-transfer-to-another-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need a certain number of credits before I can transfer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is &#8230;\u00a0<strong>NO<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>YES<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NO\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A student may always apply to another college\/university for admission but if that student has too few completed college credits, then\u00a0their application will not be given the same consideration as is given to a\u00a0<em>TRUE<\/em>\u00a0<em>transfer applicant<\/em>. The applicant will be considered with all the other freshman applicants and\u00a0<em>at that competitive level<\/em>, high school grades and SAT scores strongly affect the answer.\u00a0If\u00a0the student is accepted to another college and has earned college credit,\u00a0 those\u00a0completed colleges credits will be\u00a0evaluated by the receiving college\/university for transferability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YES<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0<em>TRUE<\/em>\u00a0<em>transfer applicant<\/em>\u00a0does need to have a minimum number of completed college credits at the time an application is filed. The number of completed\u00a0credits will vary from as few as 12\u00a0to as many as 60 credits. Applying for admission under transfer status affords the student certain additional considerations not offered to freshman applicants. If earning a degree is not your goal, you should plan to attend long enough to complete at least 30 college credits before you apply to transfer. This does not include basic skills coursework.\u00a0 Most four-year colleges will waive the SAT requirements for transfer students who have earned more than 30 college credits. And some\u00a0(though not all) will not require\u00a0high school transcripts either. The admission decision will be on your college work alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is &#8230;\u00a0NO\u00a0and\u00a0YES. NO\u00a0\u2013 A student may always apply to another college\/university for admission but if that student has too few completed college credits, then\u00a0their application will not be given the same consideration as is given to a\u00a0TRUE\u00a0transfer applicant. The applicant will be considered with all the other freshman applicants and\u00a0at that competitive level, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/transfer-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}