Credit Transfer

For Spring Entrants

Credit Transfer:

• If you plan to take courses elsewhere during the fall, try to select courses similar to those you would be taking at Mount Holyoke if you were entering in September.  Mount Holyoke accepts credit from any regionally-accredited institution for courses which are part of a standard liberal arts curriculum. 
• Use the online First-Year Curriculum Guide as a guide to the types of courses that will be acceptable for credit transfer. 
• In order for the credit to transfer, your grade must be C- or better and the course cannot be an online course. 
• When your work is completed and grades are recorded, be sure to ask the Registrar at the school you attend to send an official transcript directly to Mount Holyoke’s Registrar.

Credits toward Distribution Requirements:

 You may satisfy some distribution requirements through transfer work in advance of your start at Mount Holyoke. The procedures are as follows:

• If you want advice in advance on whether a course is likely to meet a distribution requirement, please feel free to email the Registrar (registrar@mtholyoke.edu).  It would be helpful to include a copy of the appropriate course description in the Catalogue for her review.  For questions about science distribution, please email Professor Sarah Bacon (sbacon@mtholyoke.edu).
• Your November pre-registration packet will include a form requesting that you indicate college courses you have taken elsewhere.
• The Registrar will review the official transcripts you have submitted through the Admission process or thereafter and will confirm whether credit can be counted toward satisfying distribution requirements. Those decisions will be visible to you when you arrive, by running the degree audit in ISIS to see which distribution requirements have been met through the transfer work accepted for credit.
• If the course you choose at another school has a catalogue description similar to the description of a distribution course at Mount Holyoke, distribution credit will be granted in most cases.  The Registrar may refer you to the appropriate department Chair if she is unsure whether distrbution credit should be awarded; in this case, you will meet with the Chair, share the course description, describe its assignments, etc and receive a final decision from the chair about whether it will be accepted to meet a distribution requirement.