Transfer Eligibility and Requirements
Due to the competitive nature of Penn's admissions process, it is imperative that we receive these grades or written evaluations.
Students' records must be free of all failure, conditional and incomplete grades. In addition, records from summer school, study-abroad programs or special college programs must be submitted in official transcript form. These records will be considered along with other credentials. If you have taken courses on a PASS/FAIL or CREDIT/NO CREDIT basis, please have grades, or written evaluations of your performance, sent by the professors of these courses. If you attend a school that records only PASS/FAIL on your transcript for your first semester or first year courses, please request that your grades be released on the transcript sent to our office. Students who have been denied admission to Penn are strongly advised not to reapply after only one semester.
The University does not admit freshmen at mid-year. Students who leave college at the end of the first term may apply to the freshman class entering in the subsequent September. The freshman application deadline is January 1. Students who are completing their senior year of high school concurrently with their first year of college should apply as freshmen.
Penn maintains a two-year resident requirement. One-half of the total number of courses required for the degree must be completed here, regardless of the number of transferable credits completed elsewhere.
