at Everything you need to know about university transfer By Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter any Douglas College students currently attending Douglas here to complete their university degree. Several students are taking their first and second year courses at either campus so that they can save money and benefit from a smaller learning environment. The thing is, after students complete their first and second year courses they have no idea where to go from there and how the whole university transfer process works. This information can be found by doing hours of searching on the internet, or by reading this article. Many students wishing to transfer like to finish their first two years (60 credits) here at Douglas, after 60 credits you will receive your Associates degree. The Associates degree can specialize in various subjects such as literature, performing arts, language, humanities, social sciences, business, sciences, and many more. Each Associates degree requires certain courses to complete. For example, the Associate of Arts degree usually requires six credits of a first year English electives, three credits of a math, statistics or science electives, three credits of a first year lab science, along with six or more credits in social sciences, humanities, and arts. This is not the same for all Associates degrees. In choosing your courses for each semester, it is important to do the research to make sure that the courses agreements have been established by receiving institutions. If you have taken courses outside of BC and want to transfer to a university in the province, you must apply to the university and if the university has accepted the student, you will automatically be evaluated for the transfer credit. Basically, if all of your courses are transfer acceptable by the BC transfer guide, you are on the right path. However, if a transfer credit is denied, this is because: one course was taken when a two course combination was required, you failed the course or did not receive a high enough grade, the course was taken too long ago, you took too many courses, (more than 60 credits so the other credits cannot be used towards your degree) or you took two courses that are equivalent to the same course at a receiving institution, so you will only receive credits for one of those courses. Before you transfer, plan ahead. Once you know the program and universities you are interested in, you should do the research. First you must look through the academic calendar and review the website of the university and find out the requirements. It really helps to speak to an academic advisor in your chosen department so that they can answer any questions you have. Next thing you must do is get admitted to the university, assuming you have all the requirements. Usually transfer students require a minimum GPA of a C (2.00 average) with a minimum of 24 credits of the right courses for your program. university. (This usually costs a small fee) Assuming you have all of the general requirements, you are ready for transfer. There are just a few things to keep in mind after you transfer from a college to a university. First of all, the transition can often be more difficult than you expect. High school and college students discover that classes are exceptionally larger, from 40 students per class to 400. Instructors usually have higher expectations for the students as well because the general atmosphere of university classes is more competitive. This causes nervousness and anxiety in some students, so researchers have some advice for students just starting at a university. You must be prepared to change your strategies. Because the instructors expect more out of you, you must do so in order to be successful. You will most likely have to read more as the tests are usually harder and the papers are marked harder as well. Several students have said that the large classes were too intimidating to ask questions in, so they asked those questions in tutorials after class. Some more helpful advice is to find out what your professor expects out of his/her students right away by asking other students who have taken the class or looking up their classes online. It is also a good idea to talk with the advisors students, so forming a study group is helpful in sharing everyone’s ideas. Also, keep in mind that professors are approachable, and if you have a specific question it is best to meet with them during their posted office hours. If you have a student loan, it is important that once you transfer you must let the government know that you are changing schools. If you do not, it is possible that you could delay the process of your loan application or you could not receive as much money as you were entitled to. To stop this from happening, make sure you complete a loan transfer. The government will then reassess your student aid based on the academic year length, tuitfon, the cost of books, and other various supply costs at the new university. It is common that once you transfer, your grades will go down in the first year due to all of these changes. However, by doing the best you can with study approaches and seeking advice, your grades will be back up in no time as you adjust to the transfer of your choice transfer to your ideal Next, you must arrange to send all of of that particular faculty you are in, process. For additional information on university. This can be done by visiting —_-your official transcripts. Only you can so they can help you with what books university transfer, it is best to check www.bctransferguide.ca and selecting do this as it unfortunately does not or websites you can use for helping out the Douglas website as well as the your course in the course search. happen automatically. In doing this you you understand the material better and desired universities website, or better The BC transfer guide lists all of the have to go to all previous institutions answer any questions you have. A great yet speak to an academic advisor. courses and programs where transfer and ask for your transcript to send to the —_ study approach is to study with other Starbucks logo change creates uproar By Karin Keefe new logo is “more suitable to the 843 comments, and a message from It’s not just the die-hard fans future” and that it gives Starbucks the creative manager had received a who disapprove. On the website tarbucks Coffee has announced “the freedom and flexibility to think further 308. 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