Hi there, sadly it looks like my son will have to leave due to a medical issue after his 2nd year. He was looking at Univ Col Boulder, since they also have an Aerospace Engineering degree, but apparently they don't take a lot of his classes and he'd have to spend another 3 years there to get his degree. If he changed his major to Business, he could go to Univ Col Denver and graduate in 2 years. Just wondering if anyone knew of a school anywhere that would accept all of his USAFA classes for transfer. thanks.
What is the best university to transfer to that will accept USAFA classes?
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You can generally find this information on the university's website. For example, this is Georgia Tech's website. Note that the final decision of transfer credit is up to the university, but their websites try to give guidelines. I don't know of any specific university which accepts most/all of USAFA's credits (GT was pretty good I believe), but I hope this helps.
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I’m sorry your cadet is experiencing this! Has he considered Embry Riddle? My son attends the AZ campus and has a friend who had to medically separate from the naval academy was an engineering major and matriculated into ERAU well.
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GT has a specific transfer website where you can do a class for class comparison. what type of classes are you thinking will not transfer? i know that none of my sons Naval Science classes would transfer to a regular college degree(maybe a few of the extracurricular credits?)
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I’d suggest that you find several schools that fit your academic and financial needs. Then check with each school to determine which courses transfer.
Also, does major matter? You mentioned Aero Engineering and Business? Is the goal just to get a degree quickly?
Also, does major matter? You mentioned Aero Engineering and Business? Is the goal just to get a degree quickly?
Are you sure Univ Col would not take his credits?
Aren't alot of first and second year courses like Calc 1, 2, 3, physics, Chem and that kind of stuff?
I would think that military type classes would not transfer.
Have your child contact the Admissions counselor
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Did they get evaluated?
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Aren't alot of first and second year courses like Calc 1, 2, 3, physics, Chem and that kind of stuff?
I would think that military type classes would not transfer.
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Well he has a gf at the Academy. And she wants to get married and have babies when she graduates. So he is considering just being a military spouse now since they would be traveling around. He thinks a business degree would be more mobile than an Aero degree moving around every few years.
Well he is supposed to talk to a counselor, but apparently the engineering classses are broken up differently, so they don't transfer 1 for 1.Are you sure Univ Col would not take his credits?
Aren't alot of first and second year courses like Calc 1, 2, 3, physics, Chem and that kind of stuff?
I would think that military type classes would not transfer.
Have your child contact the Admissions counselor
Find Your CU Boulder Admission Counselor
Did they get evaluated?
Transfer Credit Evaluation
Review your transfer credit evaluation and be ready to discuss it with your academic advisor.
You could try San Diego State. CA State Universities' out-of-state tuition isn't outrageous. They have an Aero major. My DS's experience is that the Engineering Departments have been accepting of Major Prep classes taken elsewhere. Their website has a Transfer Planner page; it doesn't always work well, but you could go directly to the Aerospace Major Dept office.
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Sorry to hear about the medical issue!
I previously taught for both ERAU (graduate and undergraduate) and USAFA (Dept of Aeronautics). Having said that, I have no idea what universities require these days; however, I used to think of an engineering major at a civilian school taking four STEM courses and one social science/humanities /etc elective per semester. Any cadet with two years at USAFA should have a lot of courses to transfer to fill both the STEM and social science/humanities type requirements. Most people will not transfer 100% when changing universities. Assuming reasonable course grades at USAFA, your DS should be able to transfer several courses that are not unique to the USAF – like officership100. Also, keep in mind that although course grades can make the difference between transferring credit and having to take the course again, USAFA doesn't do grade inflation. Your son may need to advise the gaining university of that fact to help them fairly evaluate his academic performance.
Until a university has a transcript to evaluate, I doubt that many universities could commit to a reliable estimate. You can probably get a good understanding by simply looking at the course sequence required by a specific university/major and comparing it to the cadet's transcript. Good luck!
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I'll be honest with this PSA warning for SDSU out of state applicants. SDSU was one of my DD's top choices for undergrad -we are e out of state for CA. She's a straight A student, rocked the standardized tests, oodles of APs as as an AP Scholar, athlete, leader... She was admitted swiftly and invited into the Weber honors college. I'll just share exactly what the SDSU regional admissions manager told me - yesterday actually.
1. They give out an awesome scholarship to about 100 people, but nearly all of those went to in-state residents. Notifications already went out.
2. She noted that "because we're out of state" the only aid they might give us was a work-study program, and an unsubsidized loan. So keeping it real, really we won't qualify for FA anyway, but the takeaway message to share is - if you qualify for massive aid elsewhere, you won't at SDSU because they allocate by state residency over need.
3. You have to put in your deposit and THEN you can apply for the rest of their Aztec scholarships (and there are many scholarships and types) which they notify you about over the summer. So you have to commit BEFORE they really tell you what they'll offer you and she reinforced that with my daughter's academic record she'll get something, but again tempered expectations with her most $$ to go to in-state residents.
4. The honors college provides an annual scholarship of between 1000 and 7500 annually, but *you guessed it* .. "since we're out of state, we should only count on the minimum, since most of SDSU's scholarship moneys go to in-state students". *see a theme here?
I wish I had known all that before we paid for the application or wasted time visiting or getting hyped-up about the possibility of attending. Honestly, avoid SDSU as an out of stater unless you're cool with paying full price while your in-state classmates don't. Look my DD is no victim here - she has great offers including merit offers that bring a lot of schools down from the 40s to 20s, and others from the 80s to 30s or 40s *and one full tuition scholarship. But she felt "at home" at SDSU so I would have paid for her to go there - just not more money than an ivy after merit - it's great but we can't justify that.
I in part like the loyalty of SDSU looking out for CA residents from CA schools - I get it, support it - I just didn't realize it was to the dramatic exclusion of the out of staters.