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Among the top are Wharton, UMich, NYU and Purdue.

No they don't mean your SPM certificate. In Malaysia we don't have a secondary school transcript. So the solution is just to create one yourself. When you design it, make it clean and simple. Include your grade from your mid and final year exams. If you don't have a the final year exam marks, just use your the real or percubaan PMR and SPM marks. Add in important details like your position in class and your CGPA (calculate it yourself). Discuss this with your school counselor or headmasters, explain it to them and get them to sign it. I just got my counselor to sign it, it works. My counselor even helped my by adding in the school's logo and official header, so it looked pretty neat in the end.

I mean include your mid and final year exam from F1 - F5, but some schools, like mine, don't have final year exams in F3 and F5, so you can substitute it with your PMR and SP results. Of course, you need your school's approval first.

There is no such thing as a freshman year. The term freshman, sophomore, junior and senior is only used to measure your progress towards your graduation.

The university couldn't be bothered what you do actually. In fact they couldn't be bothered what the lecturer does mostt of the time. The lecturer prepared his class and sets a time for it and you sign up what you wanna take. There are only semesters. And it's up to you to make your timetable for the semester.

In US, one academic year means the fall and winter semester. Students are expected to do an average of 15 credits a semester and thus 1 academic year equals 30 credits.

Year here does not refer to the time taken to get those credits. It hardly matter if you took 3 years to accumulate 20 credits.

You basically get admitted and then you're free to do whatever you like as long as you abide by your visa rules. The university doesn't structure anything for you.

There aren't really such things as sophomore level classes. There are just classes people normally take in a certain "year". Some people like to concentrate on their major first and may end up doing classes people normally do in their junior "year" during their freshman year and then complete the non-major subjects later. Some go to college for intellectual discussion and decide to do classes with graduate students. As long as the professor for the class OKs it, you're fine.

In the university I was in and I'm going to again, the only difference between freshman sophomore etc is the higher the level, the earlier I get to choose my classes. There are also things like sophomore club, jobs for sophomore only, housing for freshman only and such things. Those are actually just a rather rough groupings and again, nothing's really rigid over there.

Could you give the specific scenario you're thinking of? I don't really understand what you're trying to ask.

You can transfer credits from multiple universities as long as the university you are transferring to recognizes the courses.

If the SUNY college you intend to transfer to accepts credits from Taylors and UIU, then you will be able to transfer credits from both Taylors and UIU.

However, the SUNY college or any other college will normally have a limit on the number of credits you can transfer. Normally the transfer limit is two years worth of credits. The specific number differs from college to college. It's usually within 55-66 credits.

So you've already transferred 60 credits to UIU from Taylors. then at UIU you gained another 15 credits. Then you want to transfer over to SUNY, but SUNY's limit is also 60 credits. So you will have to leave out 15 credits.

There are policies which require you to transfer the basic courses first. For example, you must transfer Biology Level 1 before you can transfer Biology Level 2.

Besides that minimum number of credits you have to take at the college. So even if you transferred alot of credits, you still be required to take at least 60 credits in the final university you're graduating from.

There are colleges that accept more than 60 credits. I've heard of those that accept up to 90 credits. I don't know the specific transfer policies of UIU or SUNY either. If and when you plan to do such a transfer, it's best to read up their transfer guidelines on their website and also email their admission office with your case.

ps: This is probably not what you had in mind, but it's pretty common for students in higher ranked and more expansive universities to take classes in community colleges during the summer to save on their tuition fees. It's also common from students to take classes in high ranking universities ans transfer them over to their 'home' university. For example someone in UIU might want to take a few classes in Stanford, Yale, Harvard etc but can't get admitted into all those universities. He still can take a few classes in each of those universities and transfer them over to UIU. In fact, there are specific summer programs so that's it's easy for these "summer student" to sign up for classes.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Jul 22 2010, 01:20 AM

1. You will know the results by May I think.

2. Yes