Expecting College Credits?
Follow the steps below to ensure your academic credit comes with you to UConn. Until credits post to your UConn transcript, your Adivsor will not be able to confirm equivalencies. To ensure no duplicate credits are attempted, Advisors always recommend that you do avoid enrolling in anything for which you may already have credit in your first term.
AP (Advanced Placement) Credit
Transfer (Dual Enrollment) Credit
ECE/Non-Degree Credit
IB or A Level Credit
- Double check that your score(s) qualifies for credit. Grades and grade points do not transfer, credits will be reflected with a “T” grade for “transfer” with no impact on GPA.
- If you earned a credit-bearing score, be sure your scores were sent to UConn. When you originally took the AP exam(s) you had the opportunity to send one free score report. If you did not add UConn at that time, you need to contact CollegeBoard and have your scores sent to UConn's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. If you are not sure, contact CollegeBoard.
- If scores are sent in early summer, credits tend to post in early/mid-August to your UConn transcript. Check your UConn transcript in StudentAdmin to confirm they have posted (the credits will be listed on top, under your “Undergraduate Record” but before your registered courses). If sent later in the summer, it may take extra time to post. If they do not post, follow up with UConn Admissions and CollegeBoard until they do.
- Send all official transcript(s) from your previous institution(s) to UConn's Office of Undergraduate Admissions (not your Advisor). If you have sent them already, you may contact Admissions to confirm if they have received them. If not, ask your institution to send them again. If hand-delivering to Admissions, your transcript must be in a sealed, unopened envelope.
- Sometimes a High School assists with this process for dual enrollment programs; other times, students can reach out directly to the credit-granting institution (usually a local college) and request that your official transcript get sent to UConn Admissions. Admissions then receives and evaluates that credit for UConn equivalency, and posts it to your UConn transcript.
- Be aware of deadlines and posting periods (available here). If your official transcript is received before the deadline, your credits will be evaluated and posted within 4-6 weeks after that date. If your transcript is received after that date, your evaluation will take place after the next deadline, and posted in the next posting period. You may contact Admissions to see if your evaluation may be expedited, but it is best to get your transcript to Admissions as soon as possible.
- Transfer courses must have a grade of “C” (2.0 on 4.0 scale) or better to transfer. Note that grades and grade points do not transfer, and credits will be reflected with a “T” for “transfer” with no impact on GPA.
- Keep any syllabi from your previous institution(s), as you will need to submit them if you have any questions regarding re-evaluation of your transfer credits.
- At orientation, your Advisor will help you create a successful schedule for the term with our best guess based on what information you can provide about your transfer credits, but you must take immediate action to avoid enrollment challenges and conflicts. UConn's Office of Undergraduate Admissions ultimately must review and evaluate all transfer coursework. If you took courses at a Connecticut institution, you use the transfer course equivalencies website to see if the courses have already been evaluated and have a UConn equivalent.
- Check your UConn transcript in StudentAdmin to confirm your credits have posted (the credits will be listed on top, under your “Undergraduate Record”). If they are not posted, follow up with UConn Admissions and your prior institutions(s) until they are.
- As long as your ECE (Early College Experience, taken in High School) or UConn Non-Degree (taken at UConn over summers, for instance) credits and grades are showing up on your UConn transcript (at the end, under “Non Degree Programs Record”), no action is needed until the end of your first term at UConn.
- If something looks incorrect, contact your High School and/or the UConn Early College Experience Office.
- In your first term, you will get an email from your Advisor with instructions to submit your decisions through Nexus. You will have until after first term grades post to decide which ECE credits you want to accept or reject.
- ECE credits that are accepted are duplicated on to your “Undergraduate Record” on your transcript, apply to your degree requirements, and will impact your GPA.
- ECE credits that are rejected will stay only on your “Non Degree Programs Record,” will not apply to your degree requirements, and will not impact your GPA.
- If no action is taken by the student, the School of Business pending class policy will be applied by the deadline.
- DECISIONS ARE FINAL and cannot be changed after the deadline. Students have many opportunities over their first term to discuss this decision with an Academic Advisor.
- Double check that your diploma and/or score(s) qualifies for credit. Grades and grade points do not transfer, credits will be reflected with a “T” grade for “transfer” with no impact on GPA.
- If you meet the qualifications, be sure required documentation is sent to UConn Admissions as soon as possible.
- If documentation is sent in early summer, credits tend to post in early/mid-August to your UConn transcript. Check your UConn transcript in StudentAdmin to confirm they have posted (the credits will be listed on top, under your “Undergraduate Record” but before your registered courses). If sent later in the summer, it may take extra time to post. If they do not post, continue to follow up until they do.