Question about credit hours on podiatry application

[PrePodDoc]

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Hi everyone,
I am so confuse on the credit hours when inputting my grades. I have taken courses at a Cal State and community colleges and they are recorded as units (mainly 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 units). When converting them to credit hours, do I leave them as is or multiply them by a certain factor. I called the help center and they told me the conversion should be on the back of my official transcript. So I order them and now after 3 weeks they are here. There isn't any conversion number except for "Each regular semester unit represents three hours of university work per week for 16 weeks" on one of my transcripts. Thoughts?
Thanks,
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[SLCpod]

Hi everyone,
I am so confuse on the credit hours when inputting my grades. I have taken courses at a Cal State and community colleges and they are recorded as units (mainly 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 units). When converting them to credit hours, do I leave them as is or multiply them by a certain factor. I called the help center and they told me the conversion should be on the back of my official transcript. So I order them and now after 3 weeks they are here. There isn't any conversion number except for "Each regular semester unit represents three hours of university work per week for 16 weeks" on one of my transcripts. Thoughts?
Thanks,
-PrePodDoc

Call the help center again. It is better to get the instructions from them than us on the forum. You could look through the FAQ's on the AACPMAS.

 

[hughesn2]

You should have called your university and/or community college for some clarification if they would know during those 3 weeks. I have never taken a class that was in Units and not credits, so I won't be much help.

BUT maybe Google did help. I would not exactly take this as the same for yours, but maybe this site should or could help: http://advising.richmond.edu/advisors/units/conversion-chart.html

According to this site, it looks as if 2.0 units=7 cred, 4.0 units=14 cred,
I would advise that if you are currently enrolled or live relatively close to these schools (if already graduated) I would schedule an appointment to see an adviser to see if they could help. Trying my best to help anybody that needs it, but my advice would be to call your school AND AACPM!

 

[PrePodDoc]

Thanks for the help. Looks like I will be calling them next week as I have several essays to do XP