I’m using the common app because I’m transferring from a community college to a 4 year university. There is a section called colleges & universities under education and it asks you to “Mark all that apply to the courses affiliated with this institution”:
Course taught online
Course taught on college campus
Course taught on secondary/high school campus (excluding AP/IB)
College credit awarded
Degree candidate
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(If yes, please have an official transcript sent as soon as possible.)
So I don’t know if I should check off college credit awarded. When you take courses in college for credit wouldn’t it be college credit earned? Confused here. Please help me out
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Is “college Credit Earned” The Same As “college Credit Awarded”?
Posted on August 11, 2012.
Not everyone who takes a class takes it for credit or for college level credit. Not every class taught in a college has college credit awarded for it. So, the question is asking whether there was credit for the class and if you took it for credit. If so, check yes.
“earned” and “awarded” are also different. For some classes you may have earned credit (ie: you passed the class) but no credit is awarded in your program because it doesn’t apply to the major or the degree level.
For others there is a group of “awarded” credit that you don’t actually take a class to earn. For example: in some schools if you take and pass German III then you are awarded credit for German I and II also. You didn’t “earn” that credit though, only the credit for German III was earned – so the German I and II credits won’t transfer; it will be addressed under the rules of the college/university receiving your German III course credit.
yes
Its the same thing