A small number of Dartmouth departments will consider granting placement and/or credit for college courses taken before matriculation at accredited four-year colleges and universities (consult individual departmental entries in Your First Year publication). Courses taken at community or junior colleges are not eligible for transfer credit. College transcripts for courses taken before coming to Dartmouth are placed in your student file in your dean's office. However it is your responsibility to pick up an Application for Pre-matriculation Exemption and/or Credit from the dean's office and present relevant transcripts, examinations, papers, catalogue descriptions and syllabi to the departments before the conclusion of the first fall term. Such "transfer credits" will count towards the maximum of four courses from other colleges or universities that may be applied to the Dartmouth degree.
Note: Students often change their minds about courses and majors during their college career. Therefore, while you may see no purpose in arranging for prematriculation credit now, we highly recommend that you do so before the deadline since later requests normally are not considered.
