Examples of Transfer Credit Policies

[Sebastian (a lady)]

Because the topic of transferring credit and credit for AP or CLEP comes up frequently, I thought I'd share a couple explanations I found at one college.  Not because this is a gold standard for all colleges, but because it might help people think through options and questions they need to ask.  

 

This is for Purdue.  In my mind, they seem pretty generous in allowing transfer credit.  There isn't a cap on transfer, but there is a minimum number of credits that must be done at Purdue.  

 

Transferring Credit at Purdue  This page includes their AP and CLEP policies, Dual Enrollment, testing out, and more.

 

Transfer Credit Guidelines  This page has great details, such as the fact that credit transfers, but grades do not (so the transfer credit doesn't help or hurt the gpa).

 

If other people have links to the policies at other schools, it might help to flesh out the "it depends" quality of what will and won't transfer.

 

FWIW, our approach has been that AP and DE credit that is acceptable to the college and degree program is great, but that the main benefits of the AP and DE experiences has been to gain the knowledge and to give admissions a basis for evaluating applications.  It will be great if it opens up space in ds's college schedule, but he may be better served by repeating some fundamental courses (like calculus), even though he got a B in what he thinks was a solid course.

[Luckymama]

American University, a medium-sized (7000ish undergrad) university in DC, with more than a quarter of students in the School of International Service:

 

Transfer credit guidelines http://www.american.edu/admissions/transfer/creditguidelines.cfm

 

Credit by exam (AP/IB/A level/CLEP) http://www.american.edu/admissions/examcredit.cfm

Edited March 30, 2016 by Luckymama

[Luckymama]

George Washington University, also medium-sized and in DC, very popular for politics and international study:

 

Undergraduate transfer credit policies https://registrar.gwu.edu/transfer-credit

 

AP and IB credits https://undergraduate.admissions.gwu.edu/bring-credits-gw

Edited March 30, 2016 by Luckymama

[Luckymama]

Georgetown University, ditto the above:

 

Transfer credit https://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying-georgetown/transfer/credit

 

AP/IB/etc http://bulletin.georgetown.edu/admissions

Edited March 30, 2016 by Luckymama

[chiguirre]

UT Austin's transfer equivalency engine: http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/

 

Their credit by exam page: http://learningsciences.utexas.edu/studenttesting/exams