Quarter hour credits

[Mitchmcc]

Hi all

Hope I'm not wearing out too many electrons - or my welcome - here. I'm just getting started with this and my excitement is matched only by my ignorance. Hence a lot of stupid questions I can't wait to ask! hilarious

Does anybody know how the big three - specifically EC - handles quarter hour credits? I took 10 classes at Northeastern University many years ago and earned 30 q.h. credits. Are these simply worth three-fourths of a regular credit?

Thanks
Mitch

[sddorian]

Oddly enough, or at least it seems odd to me, you actually are awarded MORE hours for each quarter-based class. I transferred 13 classes to EC from a school that was on the quarter system and received 3.33 credits for each class. One or two classes don't really make a difference, but a substantial number of classes can really rack up the "extra" hours.

Good luck!

[peace123]

I transferred 13 classes to EC from a school that was on the quarter system and received 3.33 credits for each class.

Good luck!

If you received 3.33 semester hours then your Qtr hour courses had to be worth 5 Qtr hours each.

Excelsior converts the Qtr hours to Semester hours.
EG: I had a 4 qtr hour class and it was converted to 2.67 semester hours.

4/1.5 =2.67 or 4x.66667=2.67

[MaieJaie]

Excelsior, as with many schools, converts quarter hours to semester hours by multiplying the number of credits by two-thirds. Therefore, a a four quarter hours course converts to 2.67 semester hours.

The credits are converted per course, not as a total. Therefore, if you have 3 courses of 4.00 quarter hours each, you have 8.01 (i.e. 2.67 multiplied by 3) semester credits not 8.00 semester credits. Similarly, if you have 3 courses of 5.00 quarter hours each, you have 3.33 semester credits per course, for a total of 9.99 semester credits not 10.00. As such, it is theoretically possible to end up 0.01 credits short of graduation.

[peace123]

MaieJaie,

Thanks for info that Excelsior converts on a per course basis rather then on the total credits transferred in.

Peace123

[nstraub]

MaieJaie wrote:

Similarly, if you have 3 courses of 5.00 quarter hours each, you have 3.33 semester credits per course, for a total of 9.99 semester credits not 10.00. As such, it is theoretically possible to end up 0.01 credits short of graduation.

Mathematically speaking, you wouldn't come up 0.01 credits shy. 3.33 is just a rounded number, but the actual amount of credits is 3 1/3. One third times three is one. I don't know how Excelsior or another college would actually treat them, but if they take the 2/3 formula seriously, my explanation makes sense.