Transfer Checklist and Documents Required for Admission

In addition to the massive number of community college students who transfer to four-year institutions, roughly one-quarter of those who begin at four-year universities will also transfer at some point during their postsecondary career.

Finding accurate information regarding transfer requirements can be a challenge. If you’re looking for a transfer applicant checklist complete with all the main documents that will be required for your application, then look no further. College Transitions provides information on each application item, including: high school transcript, recommendations, college report, mid-semester report, and course descriptions.

*Data collected from institution websites and Common Data Set (CDS) forms.

Table updated July 2020.

Institution	High School Transcipt	Recommendations	College Report	Mid-Semester Report	Course Descriptions
Agnes Scott College	Yes	1	No	No	No
Albion College	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Alfred University	Yes	1	No	No	No
Allegheny College	Yes	1	No	Yes	No
Alma College	Yes		No	No	No
American University	Required for under 24 credits	1 (optional)	Yes	No	No
Amherst College	Not Required	2	Yes	No	No
Appalachian State University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Arizona State University	Required for under 24credits	No	No	No	No
Auburn University	Required for under 30 credits	No	No	No	No
Augustana College (IL)	Required	0-2	No	No	No
Austin College	Required for under 30 credits	1	No	No	No
Babson College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Bard College	Required (without associate's)	2	Yes	No	Yes
Barnard College	Required	1	Yes	No	Yes
Bates College	Required	3	Yes	Yes	Yes
Baylor University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Belmont University	Required for under 24 credits		Yes	No	No
Beloit College	Sometimes Required	1-2	No	No	No
Bennington College	Recommended for freshmen	2	Yes	Yes	No
Bentley College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Berea College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Berry College	Required		No	No	No
Birmingham Southern College	Not Required		No	No	No
Boston College	Required	1	Yes	Recommended	No
Boston University	Required		Yes	No	Yes
Bowdoin College	Required	2	No	No	No
Bradley University	Required for under 24 credits	0-1	No	No	No
Brandeis University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Brigham Young University	Required for under 24 credits	2	No	No	No
Brown University	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Bryant University	Required		No	No	No
Bryn Mawr College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Bucknell University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Butler University	Required for under 20 credits		No	No	No
California Institute of Technology	Required	2	Yes	No	No
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	Not Required		Yes	No	No
Canisius College	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Carleton College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Carnegie Mellon University	Required	1	Yes	No	Yes
Case Western Reserve University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Catholic University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Centre College	Required		Yes	No	No
Champlain College	Required		No	No	No
Chapman University	Required for under 60 credits	1-2	No	No	No
Christopher Newport University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Claremont McKenna College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Clark University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Clarkson University	Required	2	No	No	No
Clemson University	Not Required		Yes	No	No
Colby College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Colgate University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
College of Charleston	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
College of the Atlantic	Required	2	No	No	No
College of the Holy Cross	Required	2	Yes	Yes	Yes
College of the Ozarks	Required for under 24 credits	2	Yes	No	No
College of William and Mary	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Colorado College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Colorado School of Mines	Required		Yes	No	No
Colorado State University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Columbia University	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Connecticut College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Cooper Union	Required	2-3	No	No	No
Cornell College	Required for under 24 credits	1-2	Yes	Yes	No
Cornell University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Creighton University	Required	0-1	Yes	No	No
CUNY, Baruch College	Required		Yes	No	No
CUNY, Brooklyn College	Required for under 30 credits	0-2	No	No	No
CUNY, City College	Required	1	No	No	No
CUNY, Hunter College	Required		No	No	No
Dartmouth College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Davidson College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Denison University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
DePaul University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
DePauw University	Required	1	No	No	No
Dickinson College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Drake University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Drew University	Required	1	No	No	No
Drexel University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Duke University	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Duquesne University	Required for under 24 credits	0-1	Yes	No	No
Earlham College	Required for under 30 credits	1	Yes	Optional	No
East Carolina University	Required under 24 credits		No	No	No
Eckerd College	Required for under 27 credits		Yes	No	No
Elizabethtown College	Required		Yes	No	No
Elon University	Required		Yes	No	No
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Required for under 30 credits	2	Yes	Yes	No
Emerson College	Required	1	No	No	No
Emory University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Evergreen State College	Required for under 40 credits		Yes	No	No
Fairfield University	Required		Yes	Yes	Yes
Florida Atlantic University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Florida Gulf Coast University	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
Florida Institute of Technology	Required	1	No	No	No
Florida International University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Florida Southern College	Required for under 25 credits		Yes	No	No
Florida State University	Required		No	No	No
Fordham University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Franklin & Marshall College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	Yes
Furman University	Required for under 32 credits	1	Yes	No	No
George Mason University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
George Washington University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Georgetown College	Required		No	No	No
Georgetown University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Georgia College	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
Georgia Institute of Technology	Not Required		No	No	No
Georgia State University	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
Gettysburg College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Gonzaga University	Required for under 30 credits	1	Yes	No	No
Goucher College	Required for under 30 credits	1	No	No	No
Grinnell College	Required	2	No	No	No
Gustavus Adolphus College	Required		Yes	No	No
Hamilton College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Harvard University	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Harvey Mudd College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	Yes
Haverford College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Hendrix College	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
High Point University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Hiram College	Required for under 12 credits		No	No	No
Hobart and William Smith Colleges	Required	1	No	No	No
Hofstra University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Hollins University	Required		Yes	No	No
Hood College	Required for under 24 credits	2	No	No	No
Hope College	Required		Yes	No	No
Howard University	Not Required	1	No	No	No
Illinois Institute of Technology	Required for under 30 credits	0-1	No	No	No
Illinois Wesleyan University	Required	1	No	No	No
Indiana University	Required		No	No	No
Ithaca College	Required	1	No	No	No
James Madison University	Required		Yes	No	No
Johns Hopkins University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Juniata College	Required for under 24 credits		Yes	No	No
Kalamazoo College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Kenyon College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Kettering University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Knox College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Lafayette College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Lake Forest College	Required	1	No	No	No
Lawrence University	Required	1	No	No	No
Lehigh University	Required		Yes	No	Yes
Lewis & Clark College	Required	1	No	No	No
Louisiana State University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Loyola Marymount University	Required for under 30 credits	0-2	No	No	No
Loyola University Chicago	Required for under 12 credits		No	No	No
Loyola University Maryland	Required		Yes	No	No
Macalester College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Marietta College	Required		Yes	No	No
Marist College	Required	1	No	No	No
Marquette University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Required	3	No	No	No
McDaniel College	Required	1	No	No	No
Messiah College	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Miami University	Required for under 20 credits	1	Yes	Yes	No
Michigan State University	Required for under 28 credits		No	No	No
Middlebury College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	Yes
Millsaps College	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Milwaukee School of Engineering	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Mississippi State University	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
Morehouse College	Not Required	1	Yes	No	No
Mount Holyoke College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Muhlenberg College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
New College of Florida	Required	1	No	No	No
New Jersey Institute of Technology	Not Required		No	No	No
New York University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
North Carolina State University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Northeastern University	Required	1	Yes	Recommended	No
Northwestern University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Oberlin College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Occidental College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Oglethorpe University	Required for under 24 credits	0-1	No	No	No
Ohio State University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Ohio University	Required for under 20 credits	0-2	No	No	Yes
Oregon State University	Required for under 16 credits		Yes	No	No
Penn State University	Required for under 12 credits		No	No	No
Pepperdine University	Required	1	No	No	No
Pitzer College	Required for under 32 credits	2	Yes	No	No
Pomona College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Princeton University	Required	2	Yes	Yes	N0
Principia College	Required	3	No	No	No
Providence College	Required	0-1	Yes	Recommended	Yes
Purdue University	Required		No	No	No
Quinnipiac University	Required	1	No	No	No
Ramapo College of New Jersey	Required for under 45 credits	0-1	No	No	No
Reed College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Required for under 60 credits	1	No	No	No
Rhodes College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Rice University	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Ripon College	Required for under 18 credits		Yes	No	No
Roanoke College	Required		No	No	No
Rochester Institute of Technology	Required for under 30 credits	1-2	No	No	No
Rockhurst University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Rollins College	Required		No	No	No
Rutgers University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Saint John's University (MN)	Required for under 28 credits		No	No	No
Saint Joseph's University	Required		Yes	Yes (1st semester)	Yes
Saint Louis University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame	Required	1	No	No	No
Saint Michael's College	Required		Yes	No	No
Samford University	Required for under 24 credits	1	No	No	No
San Diego State University	Recommended		No	No	No
San Francisco State University	Not Required		No	No	No
Santa Clara University	Required	1	No	No	No
Sarah Lawrence College	Required	2	Yes	Recommended	No
Scripps College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Seattle University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Seton Hall University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Sewanee: University of the South	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Siena College	Required	1	No	No	No
Simmons College	Required	1	No	Yes	No
Skidmore College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Smith College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	Yes
Southern Methodist University	Required	1-2	No	No	No
Southwestern University	Required	0-1	Yes	Optional	No
Spelman College	Required for under 30 credits	2	Yes	No	No
St. Edward's University	Required for under 30 credits	0-1	No	No	No
St. John's College, Annapolis	Required	2	No	No	No
St. John's College, Santa Fe	Required	2	No	No	No
St. Lawrence University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
St. Mary's College of Maryland	Required for under 24 credits	1	Yes	No	No
St. Olaf College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Stanford University	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Stevens Institute of Technology	Required	1	Yes	Recommended	Yes
Stonehill College	Required	0-2	Yes	Yes	No
SUNY, Binghamton University	Required for under 24 credits		No	Optional	No
SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry	Required for under 30 credits	1	No	No	No
SUNY, Geneseo	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
SUNY, Maritime College	Required for under 15 credits	2	No	No	No
SUNY, New Paltz	Required for under 45 credits		No	No	No
SUNY, Oneonta	Required	1	No	Yes (under 24 credits)	No
SUNY, Oswego	Required for under 24 credits		No	Yes	No
SUNY, Purchase College	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
SUNY, Stony Brook University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
SUNY, University at Albany	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
SUNY, University at Buffalo	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Susquehanna University	Required		Yes	No	No
Swarthmore College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Syracuse University	Required for under 30 credits	1	Yes	No	No
Temple University	Required	0-1	No	No	No
Texas A&M University	Required		No	No	No
Texas Christian University	Required for under 24 credits	0-2	Yes	No	No
Texas Tech University	Required for under 12 credits	0-3	No	No	No
The College of New Jersey	Required	1-3	Yes	Yes	No
The College of Wooster	Required		No	No	No
Thomas Aquinas College	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Towson University	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
Trinity College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Trinity University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	Yes
Truman State University	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Tufts University	Required	1	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tulane University	Required		Yes	No	No
Union College	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
University of Alabama	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Arizona	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of California, Berkeley	Not Required		No	No	No
University of California, Davis	Required		No	No	No
University of California, Irvine	Required		No	No	No
University of California, Los Angeles	Not Required		No	No	No
University of California, Riverside	Required		No	No	No
University of California, San Diego	Not Required		No	No	No
University of California, Santa Barbara	Required		No	No	No
University of California, Santa Cruz	Required		No	No	No
University of Central Florida	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
University of Chicago	Required	2	Yes	No	No
University of Cincinnati	Required for under 24 credits		Yes	No	No
University of Colorado Boulder	Required	0-2	No	No	No
University of Connecticut, Storrs	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
University of Dallas	Required for under 24 credits	1	No	No	No
University of Dayton	Required		No	No	No
University of Delaware	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
University of Denver	Required for under 30 credits	0-1	No	No	No
University of Evansville	Required for under 24 credits	0-1	No	No	No
University of Florida	Required		No	No	No
University of Georgia	Not Required		No	No	No
University of Hawaii at Manoa	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Houston	Required for under 15 credits		No	No	No
University of Illinois at Chicago	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign	Required		No	No	No
University of Iowa	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Kansas	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Kentucky	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Louisville	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Maine	Required for under 60 credits	0-2	No	No	No
University of Mary Washington	Required		No	No	No
University of Maryland	Required for under 30 credits	0-1	No	No	No
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Required for under 30 credits	0-1	No	No	No
University of Massachusetts Amherst	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
University of Miami	Required	0-1	Yes	No	No
University of Michigan	Required	Optional	Optional	Optional	No
University of Minnesota	Required for under 26 credits		No	No	No
University of Minnesota, Morris	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
University of Mississippi	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
University of Missouri, Columbia	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Missouri, Kansas City	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Montana	Required for under 12 credits		No	No	No
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Required		No	No	No
University of New Hampshire	Required	1-2	Yes	No	No
University of North Carolina at Asheville	Required		Yes	No	No
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Required	1-2	Yes	No	No
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Required for under 24 credits		Yes	No	No
University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Required for under 24 credits		Yes	No	No
University of North Carolina at Wilmington	Required for under 24 credits		Yes	No	No
University of North Texas	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
University of Notre Dame	Required	1	Yes	No	Yes
University of Oklahoma	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
University of Oregon	Required for under 24 credits		Yes	No	No
University of Pennsylvania	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
University of Pittsburgh	Required	1-2	No	No	No
University of Portland	Required for under 27 credits		No	No	No
University of Puget Sound	Required for under 30 credits	1	Yes	No	No
University of Redlands	Required for under 24 credits	1	No	No	No
University of Rhode Island	Required for under 24 credits	1	Yes	No	No
University of Richmond	Required	1	Yes	No	No
University of Rochester	Required	1	No	No	No
University of San Diego	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
University of San Francisco	Required for under 24 credits	1	Yes	No	No
University of Scranton	Required for under 30 credits	1	Yes	No	No
University of South Carolina	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
University of South Florida	Required		No	No	No
University of Southern California	Required	0-1	No	No	No
University of St. Thomas (MN)	Required	0-2	Yes	No	No
University of Tennessee	Required for under 24 credits	0-2	No	No	No
University of Texas at Austin	Required	0-2	No	No	No
University of Texas at Dallas	Required for under 30 credits	0-3	Yes	No	No
University of Tulsa	Required for under 48 credits		No	No	No
University of Utah	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
University of Vermont	Required for under 21 credits	1	No	No	No
University of Virginia	Required for under 30 credits		Yes	No	No
University of Washington	Required		No	No	No
University of Wisconsin	Required	1	No	No	No
Ursinus College	Required	1	Yes	No	Yes
Vanderbilt University	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Vassar College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Villanova University	Required		Yes	No	Yes
Virginia Tech	Required		No	No	No
Wabash College	Required		Yes	No	No
Wake Forest University	Required		Yes	No	No
Warren Wilson College	Required		Yes	No	No
Washington & Jefferson College	Required		No	No	No
Washington and Lee University	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Washington State University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	No
Washington University	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Wellesley College	Required	2	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wentworth Institute of Technology	Required	1	Yes	Yes (freshmen)	No
Wesleyan University	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
West Chester University of Pennsylvania	Required for under 24 credits		No	No	No
Westmont College	Required	1	No	No	No
Wheaton College (IL)	Required	1	No	No	No
Wheaton College (MA)	Required	1	Yes	Yes	No
Whitman College	Required	1	Yes	No	No
Williams College	Required	2	Yes	No	No
Wittenberg University	Required		Yes	No	No
Wofford College	Required		Yes	No	No
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Xavier University	Required	1	No	No	No
Yale University	Required	2	Yes	Yes	No
Yeshiva University	Required for under 30 credits		No	No	Yes

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