For Students Transferring From Another College

Students transferring from another college to Virginia Western Community College must submit an Application for Admission to the college. In addition, transfer students should have official transcripts from all colleges previously attended submitted directly to the Admissions Office, Virginia Western Community College, P.O. Box 14007, Roanoke, VA 24038. (See "College Transcripts")

Please note that students who have attended another Virginia community college do not need to submit an offical transcript from the community college when applying to Virginia Western.

Transfer students who are ineligible to return to a college previously attended will generally not be eligible to enroll at Virginia Western until at least one semester has elapsed. Special conditions for the admission of such students, including placement on probation, will be imposed as deemed appropriate by the College.

Transcript Evaluation

Students wishing to have their transcript evaluated for possible transfer credit must complete a "Request for Transcript Evaluation" form in the Admissions, Records, or Counseling offices. Generally, no credit will be given for courses with grades lower than a "C" when students transfer from other colleges. Transfer students may be advised to repeat courses if it is clearly to their advantage to do so in order to make satisfactory progress in their curriculum.

In determining transfer credit, course work applicable to the curriculum at Virginia Western will be accepted if the work completed at an institution is applicable to the student's program at Virginia Western, if the course content/level of instruction is at least equal to the content/level at Virginia Western, and a comparable course is/has been taught within the Virginia Community College system. Courses so credited are not calculated into the student's Virginia Western GPA computation.