Hello. Welcome to the University of Delaware transfer presentation. My name is Sarah lining her. I am the Associate Director for recruitment and selection in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. I'm pleased to present to you today. Throughout this presentation, we will cover a brief overview of the University of Delaware, followed by a review of our transfer admissions process, as well as our transfer credit evaluation process. We hope that whatever you are, prospective student or an admitted student, this information will be helpful to you while we are unable to take you and a part of this presentation, please do connect with us as we are more than happy to answer your individual questions. So let's begin. The University of Delaware is nicely positioned in the mid-Atlantic, about 2.5 hours from Washington DC and about 2.5 hours from New York City. What is nice for our students is that they have an amtrak station right on campus in New ARC, Delaware. So students are looking to get between these cities. It's very easy to do and we are also nicely positioned in between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Even more access. Students take advantage of these cities, not only as part of their learning outside the classroom, but also for internships and even weekend trips. We also do have a nice little downtown of New York where there are shops and restaurants for students to engage in outside of school. Speaking of academics are transfer students engage in many of our smaller classes on campus, and our student to faculty ratio is 12 to one. Pictured here are students working with an art conservation faculty member on a project we partnered with to ski university. They are working on artifacts that fell into disarray. And if you know anything about art conservation, it is a very tedious process, but one that has great benefits. These artifacts are hopefully going to be portrayed in museums and the future. And we're very excited to be part of this project. In terms of majors, I mentioned our conservation and the University of Delaware has nine colleges spanning a 150 majors and with over a 100 miners. So we hope that we offer something that you're excited about and to check out our majors, you can visit our major finder website. You'll see here that they're listed in alphabetical order. But you can also search by each school and college individually. When you click on the major, you will see an overview of that program as well as a symbol for your course schedule at the very bottom. You'll also notice at the bottom of the website is a direct link to our Atkins page. Our outcomes page will show you how students have fared within that major, within the school and college and across the university at large. You can look at just prior year or all the way back a few years. What's also helpful is that you will see what percentage go to graduate school where students are employed. And what their average salaries are. So we hope that while these two statistics show our success, you will also check it out for the program that you are interested in. One thing that a lot of transfer students do not realize is that they do have the opportunity to study abroad. The University of Delaware is structured in a semester system, so a the fall term and a spring term. But we also have an optional winter term. And that is how a lot of our students, especially a majors that typically would not allow for study abroad, have that opportunity. So whether you are an engineer, a business student, or even someone interested in international studies, you can consider this option. We have over a 100 program spanning 40 countries. So please do keep it up on your potential to-do lists as an as an option. Here you can see our transfer website. At the very bottom, there are three buttons. The first is you are Apply button. Please note that the University of Delaware has its own application for transfer students. So you will want to access a here. The accept your offer button will link you to your mind blue pen home portal, which I will reference in a few slides, and is where you can track your admissions process. Lastly, the emissions requirements fine, will be a direct link to what I'll reference soon. We do have specific requirements based on the major to which you are applying to. Here you can see R2 *** bytes that being made first for a student looking to start in the fall and November first for students looking to start in the spring. Keep in mind, these are priority deadlines. So while we do encourage students to apply by these dates, you may have five after this date as wow, we just want to make sure that you're getting everything you need in to be reviewed and how the decision and an agate. We just want to make sure that you get everything in a timely fashion and have enough time to make your decision. You will notice as well with art, music, and fashion design that additional information may be necessary. So please do visit our website for that information. And lastly, before I move on, we do want to highlight that we have our transfer credit matrix available at all times. So whether or not you are a prospective student or an admitted student, you can visit our transfer credit matrix to see how your credits may transfer. I will go more thoroughly into this in a minute, but we just want to reference that is available to any student at any time. Here you will see a sample of our website of the requirements by major. So as reference previously, you can get to this directly from the emissions page for transfer students by hitting the requirements button. Here, you will see that we break our majors down into three different sections. The one highlighted here is our minimum of Web 2 GPA required. Keep in mind that while the minimum is two pi, now, we will do a holistic review of your application and I will discuss what that means in a minute. The other areas that you will find, our majors that are requiring more than a 2 GPA and those that are not available for transfers. For. I'm requiring more than a 2 GPA. They fall into a variety of categories. I will show you some samples here. So the Lerner College of Business and Economics requires that students have the completion of calculus prior to enrolling at the university. There are some majors thought within our Lerner College of Business and Economics that are OK, taking a precalculus class. So we do encourage you to visit the section of the website to learn about the requirements specific to the programs that you are interested in. The College of Engineering is a little bit more difficult as it requires additional courses and additional grades in those courses. But you will see our flexible the School of Education requires a 2.75. Exercise science requires a 3 overall with a C or better in general chemistry in general biology. And marine environmental science requires a C or better in college calculus without it being evaluated. So when you see that the Lerner College of Business and Economics requires a B or better in math 221. That does mean that that course needs to be evaluated prior to us offering you admission. Again, the matrix will show you that as a prospective student. But the opposite, Michigan's will also reach out if, and it's very. Lastly, there's one more applied nutrition and nutritional sciences, requires a C or better in college chemistry. We have a few majors that unfortunately are not accessible to transfers. That is our business undeclared major engineering, undeclared occupational therapy, traditional nursing, the BSN, and our university studies program. If you have over 29 credits coming in as a transfer student. These majors are unavailable to transfer students only because we want to make sure that you graduate in a timely fashion. And I'm on track with Hadoop reprogram the. So what do we consider in your application? We're going to look at the application itself, which has a required essay asking you why you're interested in transferring to the University of Delaware. We hope that whether or not you have a story to share or are just simply to continue your education, you will write something that you are proud of. We also require all college transcripts and for reading purposes, that being for us to read your application and provide you with a decision, we will gladly take an unofficial copy. Just keep in mind that if you are someone who wants to make sure that all of your classes have been evaluated and you know exactly how they're going to transfer. We do need an official copy for but if you just want an admissions decision as quickly as possible, please feel free to send us an unofficial copy. And then for students with less than 30 credit hours completed when they apply. We also need additional academic information that shows in the high school transcript and standardized test scores. We do know that with the pandemic testing, maybe difficult to come by. So please let us know if you are requesting an exception from that requirement. Other factors, of course, are your major selection which we just covered, your grade trend, Townsend involvements, if you share them in the application and letters of recommendation, which are completely optional. But we will review if provided. For transfer students, we do have scholarships as well. What's nice to know is that whether or not you are a resident or non-resident, there's something for you. So for both populations, the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship is available. For this, you need to have at least 30 credit hours completed with a 3.5 GPA and provide a copy of your Phi Beta Kappa certificate. For non residents. We also have an additional scholarship available with the same criteria, 30 credit hours or more with a 3.5 GPA. And all of these awards will be awarded after we see your most recent semester grades. In terms of deadlines, we show here both spring 2021 and fall 2021. We will start reviewing students for the spring semester early each October to November, and get decisions out on a rolling basis. So those will begin really sing in November and continue through the start of the term. So again, pleased to meet our deadline of November first for your application so that we can get a decision to sooner than later. You will notice that our classes began in February, and that is because of the optional winter term for students starting in the fall term, we will begin the review of applications as soon as possible, but will most likely start releasing those decisions can January. Students will have until May first to let us know if they plan to enroll all the way through those that get admitted in April. At that point, we transitioned to a three week timeframe because we want to make sure that you are following through with new student orientation and getting ready for this semester to start. So you'll notice all the dates here. Even for students starting in spring, there is a new student orientation prior to the start of the semester. So what does it look like when you're applying? After we receive your application, you will gain access to your my blue pen home. This is what it looks like as an applicant, you will see the date that your application completed, the majors you selected on your application. Your checklist showing you all the required documents and if they've been received. You will also notice below that an upload material section, and we do allow you again to submit an unofficial copy, and so you can do that. They're on the right hand side. You will see an arrow pointing to our transfer credit information, which will link you to our matrix. All the other helpful information on how to transfer courses. And then of course, you will see Natasha. She is our Assistant Director for transfer enrollment. And your point of contact for any individual questions you have with the admissions office. Once you have a decision, and then if you are admitted, congratulations. You will see that status update with the yellow box with your decision letter. You will also now instead of seeing your checklist C2 buttons, one where you can submit a deposit, enroll, and the other where you can learn about your financial aid or the financial aid offerings at the university. On the right hand side, you will continue to see the button for your transfer credit information. And as we scroll the page, you will also see additional information that is helpful to you, such as our virtual decision day, where you can learn more about your admitted major and opportunities at the university. In addition to the next steps that new students will need to be taking by, you can wait to start those until you are deposited. This is our deposit page. You will no longer see the big yellow button to submit your deposit, because instead you will see that that has happened. On the right hand side, you'll continue to see all those helpful links, some information. And as you scroll the page, you will see the next steps for new students. Briefly to cover these, all incoming students do need to take a math placement exam. No matter if you're coming in with pre-calculus or three semesters of calculus, the Mass Department does requests this view. The other things you'll need to do, our summit of health form and attend new student orientation, which shown here is a sample of what it looked like for our virtual sessions this past summer. As you scroll beneath that, you will see the student resources section. Key thing here is our preliminary transfer credit evaluation. That is where you'll be able to see exactly how all of your classes are predicted to transfer. And again, that is only completed with official copies of your transcript. So do make sure that we have those on hand so that you can get your transfer credit evaluation. So to get into that process, this is what the transfer credit matrix looks like. You will choose the state in which your school resides, and then hopefully your institution as well. If your institution does not show, all that means is that you are the first. So we will still evaluate your credits. But you just don't have a Rolodex in the transfer credit matrix. On the left hand side, you'll see your current institution and on the right hand side, how those courses have been evaluated to the University of Delaware. So for example, I Delaware Technical Community College, if a student completed Accounting 101 or accounting 112 on their own, each individually, unfortunately, is not equivalent to a class at the University of Delaware. So a student would earn a departmental elective class. However, they took both together. They do equal a class at the University of Delaware. And that as Accounting two 07. You'll also notice below that that you may see a course listed as an expired equivalency. And not as simply because every few years we want to see an updated syllabus. We know the technology changes and textbooks change. And so we just want to make sure that we are giving you the most up-to-date information in the matrix. So we haven't seen a syllabus in awhile. It'll be noted as expired. Keep in mind that at any point in time, you will be able to visit the transfer credit information link, also provided. You're my blue Han home to see how courses are transferred. So if you do want to submit a syllabus for an expired equivalency or course not listed. What does that look like? We will cover the step-by-step directions next. Before I show you the step-by-step though, we just want to highlight there are humans behind this process. So when you're having in course evaluated, it will go to an individual within an academic department and they will evaluate the course. So they're going to look over your syllabus and course description and determine if that is equivalent to something that we teach at the University of Delaware. So here are the steps. First, you'll see your transfer credit evaluation or the transfer credit matrix. You can start at either one depending on where you are on your process. Of course is not in the matrix may be evaluated. Or if they are expired, again, you will want to have them evaluated. So what you're going to want to do is take your syllabus and the course description and provide that to the departmental contacts. They will then review your syllabus and course description and once evaluated, respond to you and copy our Office of the Registrar, I'd transfer credit at UDL.edu and then they will update the matrix accordingly as well. So the matrix is a live document. As we continue to evaluate courses, we will evaluate our matrix as well. Also keep in mind that you will do this for each subject, not necessarily each course. So if you took five Biology courses that all need to be evaluated, you will do that once to the biology department contact. Lastly, if you have any questions throughout this process, Teresa culture thoroughly, who works in the office of the Registrar, is your point of contact for this process. So at any time if you are stuck, don't know who to email or just have general questions about it, please feel free to connect with her. Lastly, hundreds of students transferred to the University of Delaware every single year. And so we do have a thriving community for which u to be a part of. There are a lot of ways that we will help you with this transition to the University of Delaware. Some of it is through New Student Orientation and connecting with brand new students, whether virtual or on campus. And your fall or spring semester start. You will also have the opportunity to select a seminar course that is specifically offered just for transfer students. That is another great way to connect with other incoming students and your faculty and staff within the university. So whether or not you are connecting with us virtually or on campus, we hope that you will stay in touch. You can always email us at admissions at Yale.edu. And as a reminder, this is Teresa's email address. Should you have questions about the transfer credit process? We hope you have found this information helpful and hopefully we'll see you again in person soon. Have a great day.
Transfer Presentation — University of Delaware
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Associate Director of Recruitment and Selection, Sara Leininger, walks through the University of Delaware transfer admissions process in this presentation.
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