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Incoming Transfer Students

The Registrar’s Office welcomes you to the Dartmouth community.  

This page will guide you through essential information about transfer credit policies and the credit evaluation process for incoming transfer students. 

To evaluate your courses for transfer credit, submit the materials listed below no later than July 7, 2025.  

Process

Matriculating Transfer Student Course Evaluation Process

Incoming Transfer Student Course Evaluation Process

1. Complete the acceptance process with admissions

2. Submit Materials - no later than July 7, 2025

• Send official final transcripts to Submit@Dartmouth.edu
• Upload a detailed syllabus for each of your courses using the transfer credit button below (Do not submit course descriptions)

 

 

• Local Placement Exams:
  • Take any appropriate local placement exams
  • Students intending to transfer language courses may wish to take local placement exams, as some departments/programs may not award transfer credit
  • Non-Dartmouth languages: students may contact Language.Exemption@dartmouth.edu about assessment
• Pre-matriculation test scores:
  • Request the College Board send your official AP test scores to Dartmouth College
  • Request International Baccalaureate (IB) score reports be made available to Dartmouth College
  • Forward Official British A-Level certificates to registrar@dartmouth.edu  

3. Credits are Evaluated

Transfer Credit is credit earned for successful performance in a course at another institution that meets Dartmouth's transfer credit rules and may be applied toward the Dartmouth degree

• Students transferring to Dartmouth are allowed a maximum of 17 transfer credits
  • No further transfer credits will be allowed after matriculation. This prohibition includes exchange terms and other transfer work

Transfer Credit Policies Summaries: ORC|Catalog

Potentially acceptable programs and requirements for undergraduate courses	Not acceptable programs or courses for transfer credit
Offered at an accredited degree-granting institution	Courses offered by extension programs, or internship programs
Courses are an integral part of an officially defined undergraduate Arts and Sciences curriculum	Students should be aware that some departments and programs have restrictive policies toward transfer credit
Online courses (offered from Spring 2020 through Fall 2021)	Online courses offered prior to Spring 2020 and after Fall 2021
Courses with an awarded grade of C or higher	Courses with an awarded grade of less than C
A minimum of three semester hours or four quarter hours are required to earn one Dartmouth course credit	A pass/fail course is not accepted in the absence of proof that the grade is a minimum C quality. Courses elected under such a grading option do not carry distributive or world culture attributes.

4. Evaluation Reports

• A report with the results of your transfer credit evaluation includes:
  • Transfer credit awarded
    • Grades received in courses transferred from other institutions are not recorded on the Dartmouth transcript or included in the Dartmouth cumulative grade point average
  • Courses that did not receive transfer credit and why
  • Your assigned class year and D-Plan

    • Based on the number of approved transfer credits awarded 

• D-Plan

  • The minimum number of enrolled (On/Resident) terms will be six for all transfer students. A summer On/Resident term will be required of all transfer students. Students transferring after their first year will be On/Resident the summer following their sophomore year. Students transferring after their second year will be encouraged to be On/Resident the summer after their fall matriculation. All transfer students must satisfy the senior residence requirement. 

  • The minimum number of enrolled (On/Resident) terms will be six for all transfer students. International Students with an F-1 status follow a general plan of three terms On/Resident followed by one Off term

 

 

 

• CLASS YEAR

  • Class years are updated once at the end of the re-evaluation period.

• Additional Information

Student Year on Entering	Non-Recording Option (NRO) & Credit/No Credit (CT/NC) Elections	Two- and Four-Course Terms
Enter after First Year	Allowed 2 NR's and a total of 6 CT/NC plus NR's	Allowed a two-course load in any two (2) terms Allowed a four-course load in any three (3) terms
Enter after Second Year	Allowed 1 NR and a total of 4 CT/NC plus NR's	Allowed a maximum of one (1) two-course terms Allowed two (2) four-course loads

• Major Declaration:
  • Students admitted after their first year must declare a major according to the deadline for second-year students
  • Students admitted after their second year must declare a major during their first On/Resident term at Dartmouth
• Degree requirements for transfer students:
  • Are the same as for all other students, with the exception of the First-Year Seminar, first-year residence, and wellness education requirements, which are waived

5. Fall Term Begins - Next Steps

We encourage students to review the ORC/Catalog, in particular the Requirements for the Degree section and the section on Students Matriculating After The First Year. 

For academic advising support, contact the Undergraduate Deans Office 

• Transfer Students | Undergraduate Deans Office

• Credit Evaluation | Undergraduate Deans Office

   

If you have questions email Registrar@Dartmouth.edu