Policies and Procedures for Transfer Students

Course Load and Credits

• Students entering UVA's College of Arts & Sciences as second-year transfer students are expected to complete their degrees in six semesters
• Students entering UVA's College of Arts & Sciences as fourth-semester transfer students are expected to complete their degrees in five semesters
• Students entering UVA's College of Arts & Sciences as third-year transfer students are expected to complete their degrees in four semesters

Summer Session

Summer Session is not counted in your allotted full-time semesters. The number of full-time semesters you are allotted will be noted on the advising sheet you receive. Permission to enroll for an additional full-time semester is not automatic. You should not assume that you will have more than the usual number of full-time allotted semesters.

Requirements

In order to graduate on schedule, you must carry an average of 15 credit-hours for each of your semesters here unless you enter with more than 30 credit-hours as a second-year transfer OR enroll in summer school to earn additional credits.

If you think you will need an extra full-time semester, you should meet with Dean Papovich early in the fall. You must always carry at least 12 credits, and, if you attempt more than 17 (recommended only in rare cases and never in the first semester), you must have special permission from Dean Papovich.

You may take up to 18 credit-hours of "non-College" courses. Such courses are noted on your VISTAA evaluation. If you take more than 120 credits for the degree, correspondingly more may be taken outside the College

Good Standing, Academic Warning and Suspension

Policies regarding Academic Standing apply to all students.

Transfer students are advised that

• If they have completed four semesters of work they must be in a major in order to remain in Good Standing.
• To defer declaring a major until the end of their fifth semester, they must obtain written permission by September 30 from Mr. Papovich .

Third-year students must declare a major or defer declaring a major by September 30 to avoid

• a hold being placed on their record by the College;
• Loss of course enrollment priority for the spring term

No student may enroll for a sixth semester without a major.