1. When do I get my "Final" Transfer Credit Evaluation? No evaluation can be "final" until you have met with your advisor, usually at Orientation. Up through and beyond that time, until your evaluation is comprehensive, the Transfer Credit Center will be working with departmental advisors to assign CORE (the University of Maryland's general education program) or elective credit to your classes. Major credit will be determined by your major advisor. If any course evaluations for your major are outstanding, you may wish to bring a syllabus for each to Orientation.
2. Do I need to bring a printout of my Online Preliminary Transfer Credit Evaluation with me to orientation? No. Academic advisors you meet at Orientation will have the most updated version of your transfer record available to them on their computers. You may certainly print and bring it with you if you choose.
3. Should I be concerned if some of my transfer courses have been awarded credit but nothing appears next to them on my Online Evaluation? No. Although some of your courses may appear "blank", they have already been preliminarily reviewed as transferrable with the credits indicated. Rest assured that a more detailed evaluation of such courses is already underway to determine applicability toward CORE or other requirements. On occasion, some credit may be deemed "not acceptable" after a more detailed review. Courses that are pre-collegiate, remedial, vocational/professional/technical (including internships) or religious in nature may be denied credit. Other restrictions may apply.
4. It looks like my most recent semester was left off of the evaluation. Make sure that you have sent your most recent transcripts of ALL college work to U of M. If you have done this and you see that the most recent semester seems to be missing, contact csrecm@umail.umd.edu to have them investigate and correct it.
5. It looks like they skipped over adding some of my courses in my evaluation. This is probably just a transcription error. Contact csrecm@umail.umd.edu to have them investigate and correct the matter.
6. It says "Needs Syllabus" next to some of my courses on my Evaluation. Why? An advisor who reviewed the course description could not determine an equivalency based on the information given. A syllabus will help the advisor evaluate the class. Click here for how to submit a syllabus.
7. There are some notes I don't understand underneath a few of my courses. What do they mean? A key to the abbreviated notes you see on your Preliminary Credit Evaluation can be found at http://www.tce.umd.edu/footnotes.html.

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Since a preliminary evaluation will already have been done by the time you access your records online three weeks after admission (at http://www.tce.umd.edu/tceval.html), any "blank" courses you still see there are normal and should simply be read as acceptable credit. Rest assured that the evaluation will continue even after you arrive for orientation.

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Speak to your College advisor. He or she may ask for some documentation to forward to the Center. We will work with your advisor to correct the problem as quickly as possible.
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Credit is posted to the University of Maryland record only from official transcripts sent from the institution at which the credit was completed. A separate transcript MUST be sent from each school attended. If you have earned credit through Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), or the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), you must have your scores sent directly from the testing board, even if they are already posted on a transcript from another institution (Office of Undergraduate Admission, Mitchell Building, College Park, Md. 20742).

Transfer courses may be denied credit at University of Maryland for several reasons. Technical and vocational courses do not transfer nor do courses that are dissimilar in content or scope to work offered at UM; neither do continuing education units. In general, credit from academic courses taken at institutions of higher education accredited by a regional accrediting association will transfer; provided that the course is completed with at least a grade of C (2.0).
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1. emailed to us here at tccinfo@deans.umd.edu.
2. faxed (please include your name and SSN so that we can match to your file) to (301) 314-7915,
3. or dropped off at the front counter of the Registrar's Office, located on the 1st floor of Mitchell Building. (Be sure to fill out the short request slip at the front counter, which will tell us what kind of re-evaluation you are seeking for the course(s).

Once received, we will then forward your request on to the proper academic faculty for a decision. Please bear in mind in this process that the Transfer Credit Center is only the record-keepr for the faculty's evaluations of your work. We are not the deciding authority.

Be sure to retain a copy of everything you submit for evaluation before you turn it in. The TCC cannot retain materials for you when the evaluation is finished.

Most evaluations will come back from departments within 3-4 weeks of TCC sending it to them. In cases of extreme emergency, if your advisor needs to know about a specific course faster, (e.g. in order to know if you've met a certain prerequisite for registration), your advisor may send you directly to the evaluating department to request an expedited evaluation. To do this:

1. Your advisor will need to contact the evaluating department to notify them you're coming. Expedited evaluations will be done only under the referral of an academic advisor.
2. Put your name, SID, your referring advisor's name, and "Time Sensitive" directly on a photocopy of the descriptive material you're handing in.
3. Take that material directly to the evaluating department.
4. You may check the status of any courses you've requested evaluation on online at http://www.testudo.umd.edu/apps/uotrans or by calling your academic advising office's front desk.

If you are interested in appealing a freshman composition class evaluation, and you notice that your course has a "PF" footnote beside it on your Preliminary Transfer Credit Evaluation, contact the Freshman Writing Office for instructions on how to submit a portfolio for portfolio review/exemption from this requirement.