Undergraduate to Graduate: School change?

Alpine

How easy is it to take an undergrad program at one university (Carleton, in Ottawa for example, in International Business) and move to a grad program at another (Law at Western University)?

I assume that transferability of credits are likely not a problem as both are respected schools, but I would obviously check as soon as possible.

Grades are obviously another factor.

I'm going to University next year and this is a big factor.

_J_

Alpine wrote:

How easy is it to take an undergrad program at one university (Carleton, in Ottawa for example, in International Business) to a grad program at another (Law at Western University)?

Depends on the colleges.

Call someone in the graduate program's admission department.

Al_wat

I thought it was pretty common to change schools from undergraduate to graduate studies?

Just talk to the admissions department at whatever school you want to go to.

jclast

It's common to change. Most grad requirements are things like "has a relevant bachelor's degree (may need to be certified by someone like ABET for engineering programs) and either a good GPA or a good GRE. They'll also ask for references from your undergrad professors.

blanknogo

When you go from your undergrad to law you won't transfer any credits or courses over. They will look at your GPA (based on the rules of the law school) and your LSAT score to determine whether you get in or not. Western may have additional requirements, of which I'm not particularly sure of.

Nowhere is it expected that you do your undergrad at your desired law school. In fact, I would guess that most people do their undergrad one place and then go off to law somewhere else. At least that is my experience in that area.

If it is at all relevant, I'm in Canada as well doing my undergraduate in Accounting at the University of Alberta.

kaliyama

If you want law in canada, my advice is UToronto.

Andrew_Jay

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DiscGrace

It's not very hard, and actually in most fields it's looked upon much better if you do in fact switch schools between undergrad and graduate. It means you've been exposed to a broader range of ideas/expertise/techniques, and that you're not afraid of change. :^:

Credits used toward your undergrad degree will probably not be able to be used toward your grad degree - no twofers, unfortunately.