Do transfer students get any special Core consideration?
Under special circumstances transfer students with 55 or more accepted credits upon entrance may petition to waive a maximum of six credits of Core requirements. Transfer students with 25 or more accepted credits upon entrance may waive the first-year seminar. Requirements that will not be waived include courses in Division V (PL and RL); D, R, S, and W courses; HS or AH, L, MT, and Laboratory Science. Exceptions to the above and/or questionable cases are handled by the UCC through academic petition. Academic petitions for Core and/or special designation for transfer courses that were not given such designation(s) when you matriculated into JCU have to be submitted by the end of your second semester at JCU for them to be considered. To receive Core credit for a course elsewhere, a student must first complete the Transient Petition form. For divisional Core and/or special designation, you must petition and supply evidence (course description, syllabus, etc.) that a course so qualifies.
