Nontrad - how to report credit hours on application

[sat0ri]

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I'm in the nontrad category. I went to community college for 3.5-4years before transferring to a university, which I completed in ~2.5 years.

Would I report my freshman through senior year as years 1-4 in CC and all my university work will be lumped in as "5th year"; or would my two years in university as still be considered junior and senior year--which, if so, how do I put in my CC credit hours.

Thanks for any help. @gonnif I think you might be particularly suited to help.

 

[libertyyne]

I'm in the nontrad category. I went to community college for 3.5-4years before transferring to a university, which I completed in ~2.5 years.

Would I report my freshman through senior year as years 1-4 in CC and all my university work will be lumped in as "5th year"; or would my two years in university as still be considered junior and senior year--which, if so, how do I put in my CC credit hours.

Thanks for any help. @gonnif I think you might be particularly suited to help.

They autoassign after a certain number of credits and then lump the rest into senior. If you look for the official amcas guide it has more guidance in there.

 

[LizzyM]

They autoassign after a certain number of credits and then lump the rest into senior. If you look for the official amcas guide it has more guidance in there.

More or less the first 30 hours of college work are classified as freshman year, next 30 are sophomore year, next 30 are junior year and anything over 90 is senior year.

 

[sat0ri]

They autoassign after a certain number of credits and then lump the rest into senior. If you look for the official amcas guide it has more guidance in there.

More or less the first 30 hours of college work are classified as freshman year, next 30 are sophomore year, next 30 are junior year and anything over 90 is senior year.

Ok, it looks like for me that will mean everything I did in university will be conisidered senior year.

Junior/Community College courses (e.g., associate degree coursework) should usually be listed as FR or SO if you took them before you attended a four-year institution. For attendance longer than two years at the same school, refer back to the Year in School section.

However, this section is only 1 paragraph long and states (sim. to LizzyM comment):

• Freshman (FR) 0-35 semester hours
• Sophomore (SO) 36-65 semester hours
• Junior (JR) 66-95 semester hours
• Senior (SR) 96+ semester hours

It just seems a bit weird to me that my university credits will only appear in senior year but my CC work will be more granular (split between three years), but I guess I'll do that and hope there are no major verification dealys. Luckily I did much better in Uni than CC so the contrast will be highlighted.

 

[sat0ri]

How many credits do you have at CC? How many at Uni?

I would split CC in two for freshman and sophomore, as CC dont have junior/senior status. to do otherwise would seem strange to AMCAS and the schools.
Then I would do the same for Uni (spilt junior senior),or follow credits

So I have about 100+ at CC (started exploring as a literature major and won awards in that). The CC transitioned to a 4 year college after I graduated, if that changes anything
I have about 100+ at Uni (double major and minor; ~20 cred hrs/semester).

Would you still suggest using Freshman/Sophmore for all of CC and Junior/Senior for all of Uni?

That makes more sense to me and the guidebook is equivocal on what to do (perhaps because most students have more sense than to take that many classes for a ugrad degree). The guidelines in one section say to group by CC and Uni (first quote above) and contradict itself in another section by saying organize by overall credit hours (0-35 hs = freshman, etc).