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Thinking
of coming to UW-Madison?
Students who
are considering applying to UW-Madison are encouraged to visit the
Office of
Admissions' website. If you have questions about the General
Education Requirements, please feel free to review the materials
on this site to learn more. You may also want to contact the
School or College to which you are applying.
Information
for Students Considering Transfer to UW-Madison
Since transfer
students also have to fulfill the General Education Requirements,
you should review the requirements (both the basic
requirements and any additional requirements
imposed by the schools or colleges they are entering).
- Undergraduate
transfer students transferring should contact the Office
of Admissions, located on campus in the Armory and Gymnasium
building at 716 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706-1481.
Phone: 608/262-3961. (Send email to transfer@admissions.wisc.edu,
or apply online at http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/transfer/apply.php#howToApply).
- The Office
of Admissions' page provides a succinct overview
of application deadlines, admission requirements and transfer
of credit for students who begin their college careers at institutions
other than UW-Madison. Students transferring from the college
parallel program at Madison Area Technical College, Milwaukee
Area Technical College, or Nicolet Area Technical College are
particularly encouraged to consult this overview, since it outlines
the number of credits that may transfer from these programs.
- As recommended
by the Office of Admissions (see http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/transfer/credit.php),
students transferring from other University of Wisconsin System
institutions should refer to the Transfer
Information System to see how specific courses transfer to
UW-Madison. As part of the Transfer Information System,
some advice on transfer to UW-Madison has been prepared.
That information is available at http://www.uwsa.edu/tis/resources/ga/guides.shtml.
- Undergraduate
Transfer Students who already have an idea about the department
they would like to join should consult the Undergraduate Catalog
to look for School or College recommendations about the process.
Undergraduate majors are listed in the Catalog;
some information about transfers for specific Schools or Colleges
is available through the links below.
Information
for Students who have already transferred to UW-Madison
Current transfer
students are probably already aware that each case is evaluated
on an individual basis. To inform yourself about your status,
you should be aware of the following documentation:
- Evaluation
of Transfer Credits. Your matriculation date determines
whether you are subject to the General Education requirements.
If you entered Summer, 1999 or later and your first college matriculation
date was before the implementation of the General Education requirements,
there is an exemption action for General Education indicated on
your credit evaluation. If you entered between May 20, 1996 and
Summer 1999, your first college matriculation date is posted on
your credit evaluation.
- For those
students for whom DARS reports are available, DARS will analyze
any course deficiencies.
- Transfer
students who have satisfied their Communication A requirement
with other courses (or AP credit) should consider accessing the
University Library System's on-line Computerized Library User
Education tutorial, located at http://clue.library.wisc.edu/.
This interactive, multimedia tutorial helps orient students to
the campus library system, MadCat (the campus library catalog)
and other major resources available for library research at UW-Madison.
- Transfer
students who have satisfied their Communication B requirement
may wish to consider whether the course taken provided instruction
in written and oral communication. The strength of the UW-Madison
Comm B requirement is that it teaches students to learn how to
communicate both in writing and orally in the context of a subject
they're studying; students who take Comm B at UW-Madison generally
perform better when they face communication tasks in subsequent
courses. In cases where Comm B credit may be awarded for transfer
courses that did not contain instruction in this essential area,
students are strongly encouraged to take a UW-Madison Comm B course.
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