Anonymous
11/22/2025 19:44
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Your student must pay close attention to the core courses required and fill the. with a certain GOA has by end of year 2. Someone posted yesterday that their kid missed by three courses (poor advising) so they had to wait a year. Don’t discount GMU - it has a terrific engineering program. My DS went there. Each four year university has its own unique agreement with the community colleges. Be sure to study the requirements- you can’t take any course you want
So I am looking at the roadmaps and required as well as recommended courses. Say a student gets all of their required courses done in a year. Can they apply for transfer?
Not under the guaranteed transfer agreement. That specifically “offer(s) a guaranteed route to admission to students completing transferable associate degrees.” You need two years.
An advantage of completing the first 2 years at NOVA is that a student accepted for transfer into VT for Engineering at that point ought to be past most of VT's "weed out" classes in the engineering program.
Anonymous
11/22/2025 19:32
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those CC transfer agreements are honored, but the student must strictly and completely comply with every single thing. No deviations allowed. No missing paperwork. No "I forgot" and no missed deadlines.
So it can and does work to transfer into university, but attention to detail totally matters.
Gotcha! Can you transfer with just the required courses under your belt or do you have to do them all? Here is a roadmap we are looking at: https://www.vt.edu/content/dam/vt_edu/admissions/pr/Transfer-Roadmaps-2025%e2%80%932026/engineering/Civil%20Engineering%20Roadmap.pdf
1. Ask the VT contact - after reading all the other links.
2. My opinion, just an opinion, if it were my kid I would not try to transfer without all required classes, all strongly recommended classes, and sufficiently high grades in each of those classes. Read the transfer agreement information to find out about grades and GPA requirements to transfer.
Anonymous
11/22/2025 19:26
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Your student must pay close attention to the core courses required and fill the. with a certain GOA has by end of year 2. Someone posted yesterday that their kid missed by three courses (poor advising) so they had to wait a year. Don’t discount GMU - it has a terrific engineering program. My DS went there. Each four year university has its own unique agreement with the community colleges. Be sure to study the requirements- you can’t take any course you want
So I am looking at the roadmaps and required as well as recommended courses. Say a student gets all of their required courses done in a year. Can they apply for transfer?
Not under the guaranteed transfer agreement. That specifically “offer(s) a guaranteed route to admission to students completing transferable associate degrees.” You need two years.
Anonymous
11/22/2025 19:14
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Anonymous wrote:Those CC transfer agreements are honored, but the student must strictly and completely comply with every single thing. No deviations allowed. No missing paperwork. No "I forgot" and no missed deadlines.
So it can and does work to transfer into university, but attention to detail totally matters.
Gotcha! Can you transfer with just the required courses under your belt or do you have to do them all? Here is a roadmap we are looking at: https://www.vt.edu/content/dam/vt_edu/admissions/pr/Transfer-Roadmaps-2025%e2%80%932026/engineering/Civil%20Engineering%20Roadmap.pdf
Anonymous
11/22/2025 19:07
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Those CC transfer agreements are honored, but the student must strictly and completely comply with every single thing. No deviations allowed. No missing paperwork. No "I forgot" and no missed deadlines.
So it can and does work to transfer into university, but attention to detail totally matters.
So it can and does work to transfer into university, but attention to detail totally matters.
Anonymous
11/22/2025 18:10
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Anonymous wrote:Your student must pay close attention to the core courses required and fill the. with a certain GOA has by end of year 2. Someone posted yesterday that their kid missed by three courses (poor advising) so they had to wait a year. Don’t discount GMU - it has a terrific engineering program. My DS went there. Each four year university has its own unique agreement with the community colleges. Be sure to study the requirements- you can’t take any course you want
So I am looking at the roadmaps and required as well as recommended courses. Say a student gets all of their required courses done in a year. Can they apply for transfer?
Anonymous
11/22/2025 18:09
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Anonymous wrote:https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/vccs.html
I've seen this roadmap but how does it work in reality? It looks too smooth to be true in reality. Sorry if my Qs sound dumb, no one in our families every dealt with CCs, we all went to 4 year schools straight away. CCs were frowned upon back in my day.
Anonymous
11/22/2025 18:08
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Your student must pay close attention to the core courses required and fill the. with a certain GOA has by end of year 2. Someone posted yesterday that their kid missed by three courses (poor advising) so they had to wait a year. Don’t discount GMU - it has a terrific engineering program. My DS went there. Each four year university has its own unique agreement with the community colleges. Be sure to study the requirements- you can’t take any course you want
Anonymous
Anonymous
11/22/2025 18:00
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
Where out of state? Some places have great scholarships. Louisville has the border benefit. Michigan State does in state for veterans. Lots of options.
Anonymous
11/22/2025 17:57
Subject: NOVA Engineering to VT
DS is looking into NOVA as a way to get into VT. His HS GPA is not high enough (3.25). Has anyone had their students to do that? How difficult was the transfer? Did they get their AS first or did they transfer after 1 year?
He doesn't want to go to GMU. He applied OOS too but he is not our only child, so we have to consider costs.
He doesn't want to go to GMU. He applied OOS too but he is not our only child, so we have to consider costs.