What is a Transfer Peer Mentor?
A Transfer Peer Mentor is a student DTI employee that works alongside your CCD Transfer Case Managers and UCD Educational Specialists. Their main purpose is to assist you in your academic goals and to help you be successful in college. They accomplish this by helping you with classes or instructors, making sense of assignments or forms, helping you with the registration process or adjusting to campus life, and helping you find resources on campus or in the community.
What is a Learning Community class?
A learning community class is designed to include the same 15-20 students in a certain series of classes. A learning community can also be one particular class with students who share something in common such as being a DTI student.
What is the cost difference between CCD & UCD or UCD & MSCD?
Please visit the following links for tuition comparisons:
UCD Resident Freshman and Sophomore:
Student Billing - Bursar's Office: How Much Does it Cost?
All UCD Non-Resident Undergraduates:
Student Billing - Bursar's Office: How Much Does it Cost?
Metro State Students:
http://www.mscd.edu/prospective/cost.shtml
CCD Students:
http://www.ccd.edu/main.aspx?CID=85
What is the GPA requirement for entering certain UCD colleges?
College of Arts and Media: You must have a minimum 2.4 cumulative GPA to be accepted, but anyone with a GPA of 2.0 may be considered. Transfer and new students are only accepted in the FALL semester.
The Business School: For assured admission, you must have a 3.0 cumulative GPA or a 3.0 in the 24 most recent credits that apply to the degree program. Students with fewer than 80 college credits who apply for business admission but do not meet these admission standards will be automatically considered for the “pre-business” program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences: For assured admission, a full year of college calculus and calculus-based physics I and II or calculus-based physics I and general college chemistry I must be completed with “B” or better grades. Grades of “B” are required in all other math and science courses and the cumulative GPA must be at least 2.75. Students with fewer than 80 college credits who apply for engineering admission but do not meet these admission standards will be automatically considered for the “pre-engineering” program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: A minimum 2.4 cumulative GPA is required, but anyone with at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA may be considered.
College of Public Affairs: A minimum 2.4 cumulative GPA is required, but anyone with at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA may be considered.
What are the requirements to be a DTI candidate?
Currently DTI is only accepting students enrolled in courses at the Community College of Denver, these students must meet one of the two following criteria: Low income and/or Hispanic.
How many college credits do I need to transfer to UCD?A maximum of 60 credits may be accepted from community or junior college. If you have completed 12 or fewer semester credit hours of college-level coursework at the time you apply, you will be considered for admission based upon your high school grade point average (g.p.a.), quality of courses taken, rank in class, ACT or SAT scores, and college g.p.a. Submit official high school and college transcripts along with your ACT or SAT scores at the time you apply.
If you have completed between 13 and 23 semester credit hours of college-level coursework at the time you apply, you will be considered for admission based primarily upon performance in your college courses, but high school transcripts are still required and must be submitted at the time of application. ACT or SAT scores are also required for Business and Engineering consideration.
If you have completed 24 or more semester credit hours of college-level coursework at the time you apply, you are considered for admission based on college coursework alone. High school records and ACT or SAT scores are not required.
What are the guidelines for transfer of Credit?
UCD considers coursework for transfer only from regionally accredited or comparable foreign institutions and if a C- or better grade was earned. Vocational/technical or remedial/developmental courses are not accepted. General education courses are usually accepted, and courses identified as State of Colorado GT Pathways courses are always accepted. Special topics or independent study courses require departmental review for transfer consideration. There is no time limit for acceptance of general credit, but certain majors have time limits on how credit can apply to requirements.
How will I know what credits are accepted?
Following admission, UCD will automatically evaluate your transcripts and will send a copy of the evaluation to you in the mail along with a brochure referring you to your academic advisor. Your advisor will assist you with applying credit to your degree program and provide additional advising assistance. Advising is required before you may register for classes in your first semester.
Do or will elective classes count towards the 60 credits?
Depending on the elective class you take and your major at UCD will determine if the elective class will count. It is best to meet with a case manager, educational specialist or academic advisor to answer this question depending on your circumstance.