If you're currently a student at Northern Virginia Community College or Lord Fairfax Community College, you may be able to catch us giving transfer information sessions on your campuses next week. For information on the events, please contact your student services or transfer office.
Here's where you can find us. We'll be giving two sessions a day at each of the NVCC campuses to hopefully help with your schedules. See you on the road!
Monday, October 3 - NVCC Annandale - 9AM and 10AM
NVCC Loudoun - 2PM and 4PM
Tuesday, October 4 - NVCC Alexandria - 9AM and 11AM
NVCC Woodbridge - 2PM and 4PM
Wednesday, October 5 - NVCC Manassas - 9AM and 11AM
LFCC Fauquier - 2PM
A blog for undergraduate students interested in transferring to the University of Virginia
Monday, September 26, 2016
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
What documents are required?
Let's recap what's needed in order for the admissions committee to review your transfer application.
1) Your current college transcript- This will give us a record of your previous work and your current courses.
2)Previous college transcript(s)- You are required to list every college you've ever attended. Whether it was last year or many years ago, you need to list it on the common app and you'll need to order your transcripts to come to us. Please don't leave any colleges out of your application. We do have ways to double-check your academic history, but we would prefer to hear it from you.
3) Your high school transcript or GED score report- Yes, we require this as well. If you attended school in a foreign country where the transcript is in another language, you'll need to have this officially translated. If you attended high school for part of your secondary schooling, but then got the GED, we would like to see both the score report and your partial high school transcript.
4) Standardized testing- For those students applying for spring 2017, the SAT or ACT is required if you graduated from high school after October 1, 2011. If you have been in the United States for less than two years and you graduated from a high school where English was not the language of instruction, you must take the TOEFL or the IELTS. We are more concerned with your transcripts over your test scores, but at this stage, they are required for most applicants.
Of course, you can't have any of this reviewed without the application, so make sure you apply through the common application spending time on each and every essay. If you've spent time out of school after high school or at any time in between, please tell us about this time in your life. If there are unexplained gaps, we will reach out to you.
Our address is on the right-side of this blog. Please send have official transcripts sent to that address. You'll also notice guidance on the forms you'll find on the common application.
Good luck!
1) Your current college transcript- This will give us a record of your previous work and your current courses.
2)Previous college transcript(s)- You are required to list every college you've ever attended. Whether it was last year or many years ago, you need to list it on the common app and you'll need to order your transcripts to come to us. Please don't leave any colleges out of your application. We do have ways to double-check your academic history, but we would prefer to hear it from you.
3) Your high school transcript or GED score report- Yes, we require this as well. If you attended school in a foreign country where the transcript is in another language, you'll need to have this officially translated. If you attended high school for part of your secondary schooling, but then got the GED, we would like to see both the score report and your partial high school transcript.
4) Standardized testing- For those students applying for spring 2017, the SAT or ACT is required if you graduated from high school after October 1, 2011. If you have been in the United States for less than two years and you graduated from a high school where English was not the language of instruction, you must take the TOEFL or the IELTS. We are more concerned with your transcripts over your test scores, but at this stage, they are required for most applicants.
Of course, you can't have any of this reviewed without the application, so make sure you apply through the common application spending time on each and every essay. If you've spent time out of school after high school or at any time in between, please tell us about this time in your life. If there are unexplained gaps, we will reach out to you.
Our address is on the right-side of this blog. Please send have official transcripts sent to that address. You'll also notice guidance on the forms you'll find on the common application.
Good luck!
Monday, September 19, 2016
UVA On the Road
This fall, we'll be visiting a few community colleges for information sessions specifically tailored to transfer students. Stay tuned for more visits. For now, if you go to or are close to one of the campuses below, contact your Student Services office for more information.
Thomas Nelson Community College (Triangle Campus) - September 20 at 10a
Thomas Nelson Community College (Hampton Campus) - September 20 at 12:30p
Tidewater Community College (VA Beach Campus) - September 22 at 12:20p
There will be more sessions at NVCC in October and college fairs in Oct/Nov, so again, stay tuned for information in the future.
Thomas Nelson Community College (Triangle Campus) - September 20 at 10a
Thomas Nelson Community College (Hampton Campus) - September 20 at 12:30p
Tidewater Community College (VA Beach Campus) - September 22 at 12:20p
There will be more sessions at NVCC in October and college fairs in Oct/Nov, so again, stay tuned for information in the future.