i transfered about 39 credits from UBC, majority of them were quick but the ones that were long were the ones I wnated to get transfered into SFU as assigned credit. If you really wnana get ahead and not repeat classes, do your homework and try and get your transfer courses tranfered in as assigned credits i.e. BIO 100 transfers to SFU BIO 101 or something along those lines.
Many courses are transfered in as unassigned credit so like Douglas's BIO 1120 (or hjwoever they have their numbers) might transfer in as SFU's Bio 1XX, which basically means you have a bio credit, but its like an elective since its unassigned. They can't find the SFU equivalent essentially.
BTW transfer credits don't count towards your GPA, so if you did really bad in those courses, you're in luck, you pretty much start fresh at SFU.
There is somewhat of an appeal process. Depending on the course, that councellor basically takes it to the department head or some type of council, and they vote (by looking at the course syllabus) and figure out whether it fits the criteria of the SFU equivalent. Originally I had a UBC Sociology 250A course transfer in as Crim 1XX credits but after much arguing and what not, I got it in as Crim 101. Saved me a course as SFU has pre-reqs to fulfill.
Took quite a long time actually..It was an ongoing process which took a total of about a couple of months.
hmm.... guess it wont be till july when i find out.... that sucks cause i wanna take math 150 and now I will have to get an advisor to manually enrol me instead of having the math 100 transfer make it available to me.
When does registration normally start for the fall term?
Can that be used as MATH 100 if a course requires MATH 100 as a prereq?
I believe an advisor said it could, but that was a while ago and I may have misinterpreted her.
That is unassigned credit and no I don't believe it can be applied.
When it transfers in as the SFU equivalent it will say "MATH 155" <-- assigned credit.
That basically means you WILL have to take MATH 100 @ SFU again since your transfer credit did not transfer in as assigned credit, but rather, unassigned credit.
This is how it worked for me in criminology, I'm 95% positive the other faculties work the same way, I could be wrong though, but you can double check.
Here's an update that might benifit ppl. in my situation:
6 BCIT Math credits = MATH 1XX(4) 100+ BCIT Computer credits = CMPT 212-3, CMPT 128-3, CMPT 2xx(18)
I have submitted a request for re-evaluation so this total may change. I am think I have to jump through more hoops in order to get the credits I want, specifically: MACM 101, CMPT 225, CMPT 150, CMPT 250, CMPT 300, CMPT 307 and CMPT 371
In any case, can anyone tell me the difference between CMPT 128 and 126? and if they count as the same thing?
I think 128 was intro to programming for Engineers, and used C or C++. Supposedly it was more basic and less algorithm-y than 126, which is for CS students and is taught in Java.
The reason I am posting this is so I can help anyone coming from BCIT's CST program the way I did. In some cases it is not possible to automatically get the full block transfer credit into computing at SFU. Also, I managed to wheel and deal an upper division course(CMPT 371), yay me!
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i transfered about 39 credits from UBC, majority of them were quick but the ones that were long were the ones I wnated to get transfered into SFU as assigned credit. If you really wnana get ahead and not repeat classes, do your homework and try and get your transfer courses tranfered in as assigned credits i.e. BIO 100 transfers to SFU BIO 101 or something along those lines.
Many courses are transfered in as unassigned credit so like Douglas's BIO 1120 (or hjwoever they have their numbers) might transfer in as SFU's Bio 1XX, which basically means you have a bio credit, but its like an elective since its unassigned. They can't find the SFU equivalent essentially.
BTW transfer credits don't count towards your GPA, so if you did really bad in those courses, you're in luck, you pretty much start fresh at SFU.
If you did good, well then too bad :)
Do you know if there is an appeals process? Or would that just be pushing it.
EDIT: Do you remember how long it took for them to respond to your request?
Took quite a long time actually..It was an ongoing process which took a total of about a couple of months.
I imagine I wont need t appeal so it probably wont take as long for me.
Luckily, there is a process in place in case I need to.
thanks.
that's why I am still waitng for my phys course.....
hmm.... guess it wont be till july when i find out.... that sucks cause i wanna take math 150 and now I will have to get an advisor to manually enrol me instead of having the math 100 transfer make it available to me.
When does registration normally start for the fall term?
I got credit for MATH 1XX.
Can that be used as MATH 100 if a course requires MATH 100 as a prereq?
I believe an advisor said it could, but that was a while ago and I may have misinterpreted her.
When it transfers in as the SFU equivalent it will say "MATH 155" <-- assigned credit.
That basically means you WILL have to take MATH 100 @ SFU again since your transfer credit did not transfer in as assigned credit, but rather, unassigned credit.
This is how it worked for me in criminology, I'm 95% positive the other faculties work the same way, I could be wrong though, but you can double check.
6 BCIT Math credits = MATH 1XX(4)
100+ BCIT Computer credits = CMPT 212-3, CMPT 128-3, CMPT 2xx(18)
I have submitted a request for re-evaluation so this total may change. I am think I have to jump through more hoops in order to get the credits I want, specifically: MACM 101, CMPT 225, CMPT 150, CMPT 250, CMPT 300, CMPT 307 and CMPT 371
In any case, can anyone tell me the difference between CMPT 128 and 126? and if they count as the same thing?
What's funny is I didn't get any credit for java specific courses(only c++) and I am a java developer, lol.
That is part of my re-evaluation argument.
Thats why I had to submit course outlines. Thanks anyways.
I got re-evaluated and it is almost done, as follows:
MACM 101 (3)
MATH 1xx (3)
CMPT 1xx (6)
CMPT 120 (3)
CMPT 125 (3)
CMPT 225 (3)
CMPT 150 (3)
CMPT 250 (3)
I am still wheeling and dealing for CMPT 371, for which I am more than qualified for. We will see.
In the end it should look similar to this. I have been corresponding with F. Warren Burton. Nice guy and it has been a pleasure dealing with him.
MACM 101 (3)
MATH 1xx (3)
CMPT 1xx (6)
CMPT 120 (3)
CMPT 125 (3)
CMPT 225 (3)
CMPT 150 (3)
CMPT 250 (3)
CMPT 371 (3)
The reason I am posting this is so I can help anyone coming from BCIT's CST program the way I did. In some cases it is not possible to automatically get the full block transfer credit into computing at SFU. Also, I managed to wheel and deal an upper division course(CMPT 371), yay me!