Transferring CA Credits to Nevada

[derlow]

Hello. My wife is currently taking nursing prereqs at a California Community College.

We are thinking of moving to the Las Vegas area in the next six months. She would finish the remainder of prereqs in Nevada and then apply to Nevada schools. Our concern is whether she will have any issues with transferring her CA prereq credits over. Also, is there any documentation she should have from her current school that will help to make the credit transfer process easier (besides sending transcripts and having the course descriptions)?

[christina731]

It depends on the policies of both schools. Some will accept all credits and some won't. Your best bet would be to get in contact with admissions at the NV school to see what their rules are regarding transfer from that particular CA school.

[Belli3]

If their initial evaluation doesn't give her credit for the courses she thinks she should get, then copy of course syllabus and/or course description in course catalog from the year she took the course at the transferring school can be very helpful in challenging the evaluation. I believe she would need to have the type of documentation that would leave no doubt that course content matches between transferring course and course at new school. As long as she can prove that, there should be no reason they would not give her credit. Sometimes, the initial evaluation can take up to 10 weeks. So, the sooner she can get that process started...the better! That way, she still has time to challenge/appeal any courses that didn't initially get the credit she feels in accurate.