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Old 02-16-2012, 03:30 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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I am a junior college student attempting to transfer to a university. I was researching the university admission requirements and have found I am either 1 or 2 classes short, which I can easily complete before the application deadline.

The university awards quarter credits while the junior college awards semester credits. I know that conversion of quarter units to semester credits is accomplished by dividing the number of quarter units by 1.5. 5 quarter credits are equal to 3.3 semester credits.

Will one 3 credit course(semester) translate into 5 quarter credits. Would I have to take two 3 credit courses which would give me 6.6 quarter credits? I can't be the only one confused by this!
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Old 02-16-2012, 04:24 AM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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Think about it. If 5 quarter credits are worth 3.3 semester credits, how the heck could 3 semester credits be worth 5 quarter credits? Your math is crazy.

If to convert quarter credits to semester credits you divide the number of quarter credits by 1.5, to turn semester credits into quarter credits you would multiply the number of semester credits by 1.5. Therefore, a 3 semester credit course would be worth 4.5 quarter credits. Two 3 semester credit courses would be worth 6 semester credits, which would be the equivalent of 9 quarter credits. In short, for every 3 quarter credits, you're earning 2 semester credits and vice versa.

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Old 02-16-2012, 10:25 AM
 
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A lot of it will also be determined by what the coursework is that is transfering as it compares to the corresponding coursework

I took some college classes in HS that I transferred in to my university which used a quarter system - some of them transferred credit to credit - basically you took class X which looks like our class Y - both were 3 credit classes so that is what I ended up with ...... my community college class X replaced my university class Y on my plan

I took two semesters (6 credits) worth of english/writing/humanities with the community college - when discussing the transfer of those credits we found that the coursework coincided with 3 distinct classes - so in that case I was able to use those 2 classes to replace 3 other 3 credit classes ........ so 6 became 9 on the transfer

Best bet is to work it out with the advisors and negotiate a little bit with them ... course descriptions are going to be very helpful
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Old 02-16-2012, 12:12 PM
 
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I'm not sure why you are trying to work this out - it's going to be the decision of your new college as to what classes they will accept. Just e-mail the registrar.
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Old 01-18-2015, 02:49 PM
 
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From the UC Standpoint (one of the few institutions that offers both semesters and quarters under the same umbrella via the different campuses)-

1 Semester Class is Generally 3 Credits
1 Quarter Class is Generally 5 Units.

Full timers will graduate in 4 years if they take a full courseload-
5 Classes per Semester, 10 Classes Per Year (30 Credits)
3 Classes per Quarter, 9 Classes Per Year (45 Units). (One less!)

While there are mathematical equations to calculate this. You are transferring courses to gain equivalence more likely than credit- so a 5 credit quarter class will directly waive a 3 credit semester class.

The Quarter System gets away with less classes.
If the workload is roughly the same, the student would graduate with 4 classes less than their semester peers.
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Old 01-18-2015, 03:05 PM
 
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There are classes in the quarter system that are 3 credits and even 2 credits. In a quarter system, students can have any number of credits per quarter from 12 to 16 (5+5+3+3) or more, if they want course overloads. It's not as simple as you outlined.
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