Transfer Credit (for UM or external students)
If the course is listed on the UM equivalency charts as being exactly equivalent to a course at U-M (i.e. Psych 100 at Washtenaw Comm College = Psych 111 at U-M), then it will meet our requirement.
If the course is listed as transferring as departmental credit (PSYCH DEPT), or with an X (Psych 101X), then you must have the course reviewed by sending an email to org.studies@umich.edu with your name, an explanation of which requirement you are hoping to fulfill, and a course description for the external course.
For students taking prereq courses at other institutions, if you wish to elect the course P/F, we request that you verify with the host institution that you will receive an actual letter grade for the course, and that an official document showing that letter grade will be available from that institution to send to UM. If the host institution does not assign letter grades for P/F courses, and/or cannot produce a document showing a letter grade received, it is preferred that you elect the course on a graded basis (not P/F). Please contact the Organizational Studies office with any questions or extenuating circumstances.
If you wish to transfer a prereq course, you must have the host institution send an official transcript to the U-M credit evaluators to have the credit posted on your U-M transcript. OS will review transcripts from all institutions attended during the admissions process.
Transfer Students
If you are a transfer student who has already completed your transfer and are attending UM, you will follow the same application process as all other UM students.
If you are applying as an external transfer student (not yet attending UM in the January you wish to apply to OS), you must contact OS for a special application link and special instructions. Please contact org.studies@umich.edu as early as possible in your planning, as application timing to UM and to OS can be tricky.
Special Note for Statistics transfer courses:
OS does not allow courses that transfer as 100-level (Stats 101X, for example) to fulfill our OS Quantitative Skills requirement.
Courses that transfer as equivalent credit for Stats 250, QMSS 201, or Soc 210 will fulfill our OS Quant Skills requirement with no further action needed.
Courses that are not equivalent to Stats 250, QMSS 201, or Soc 210, but are very similar and transfer at the 200-level (Stats 201X), may be accepted as meeting the Stats requirement, with an additional step to complete.
Students with approved Stats 201X transfer credit will also need to complete a brief, ungraded Statistics Tutorial (created by the Psych dept) in addition to the transfer course before Stats credit will be accepted for the OS major.
Once the OS major is declared, students may send proof of the completion of the Psych Stats tutorial to an OS advisor, who will then approve the Stats 201X transfer credit to fulfill the Quant Skills requirement for OS.
