Transfer Students

Required Application Materials

1. Complete Online Bear Application
2. $50 application fee (non-refundable and payable by credit or debit card) OR valid fee waiver.
   • Valid fee waiver codes can be entered into the application and are available publicly during Free Application Days or can be requested through your counselor.
   • Need-based application fee waivers can be requested within the Bear Application.
3. Official college transcripts from every institution attended
4. If you do not submit a transcript showing an awarded associate’s degree at the time of application, you will be required to submit one of the following due to federal financial aid regulations.

• If you have more than 24 college-level semester hours at the time of application
  • Proof of High School Graduation (uploaded photo of your HS diploma) OR Official Final High School Transcript
• If you have less than 24 college-level semester hours at the time of application.
  • Official Final High School Transcript

Additional documents may be requested and will appear on your personalized application checklist as required or optional.

Optional Application Materials:

• Academic Reflection
• Personal Statement/Essay
• Letter(s) of Recommendation
• Standardized Test Scores

How To: Submitting Documents & Materials

When evaluating Transfer Students for Admissions, we always follows the admissions standards set by the State of Colorado’s Department of Higher Education. All transfer students are expected to have been in good academic standing at all previous institutions. For transfer students with fewer than 24 college-level courses completed at the time of application, high school academics can also be taken into consideration.

• Applicants who have completed an Associate of Arts (AA) or Associate of Sciences (AS) degree from a Colorado public two-year institution will be guaranteed admissions at UNC.
  • This incudes students participating in Colorado’s Bridge-to-Bachelors Transfer Program.
• Aims2UNC students transitioning to UNC who are active in the program and in good standing will be automatically admitted to UNC.
• Students with a cumulative 2.4 GPA or higher from all institutions attended will be strong candidates for admission.
• Students with less than a 2.39 cumulative GPA from all previous institutions are encouraged to apply. Holistic factors such as outcomes in the last 30 credits, grade trends over time, academic interests and transferability of coursework, letters of recommendation, and written responses to the academic reflections and personal statement/essay are all considered in the process.

Programs with Additional Admission Requirements:

Admission into UNC does not mean admission into all majors. Students applying to Nursing (B.S.N., R.N. to B.S.N.), America Sign Language – English Interpretation (B.A.), Dietetics (B.S.), Theatre Arts – Education (B.A.), or any Bachelors of Fine Arts (B.F.A), Bachelors of Music (B.M.), or Bachelors of Music Education (B.M.E.) degree programs will be required to meet additional admissions requirements to be fully admitted to their chosen program.

UNC releases undergraduate admissions decisions on rolling admission which means that we review applications and release decisions year-round. Once your application is complete, we work to get you a decision as quickly as possible. Applicants will be notified of their decision by email, receive a postal mail notification (U.S. addresses only), and have a status update to view in your Admissions Portal.

Regardless of your start term, we recommend applying as close to the application open date as possible.

Students should plan to submit and complete their application by the last-chance deadline to be reviewed for admission in time for the start of term. Students will not be admitted after the add deadline for the term/session they applied which can be found on the Office of the Registrar website. For summer term, students will not be admitted after the latest session’s add deadline.

As a military student, you may be applying as a first-year or a transfer student. If you have taken any college credit after your high school graduation (or equivalent), not including military credits, you will apply as a transfer student. Otherwise, you will apply as a first-year student. Note that military credits can still be considered for transferability whether or not your are classified as a transfer student for admissions.

Your DD214 and/or Joint Service Transcript (JST) will give you elective credits, but you should still apply as a first-year student if this is the only credit you have. Attending any other Institutionally Accredited institution post-HS graduation makes you a transfer student.