For Students: Transfer Students
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Transfer students enter the Writing Program's courses with a unique set of challenges: they must harmonize their experience in composition classes at other institutions with the writing requirements of their college within Rutgers University. Therefore, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences transfer student Office has created a Web site to address the needs of transfer students, called NewToRU. Please go to this site for an overview of transfer student issues and resources related to the Writing Program and other aspects of academic and student life at Rutgers.

At the beginning of their first semester at Rutgers, each student's college will provide a Transfer Student Evaluation, which will inform them of the results of the their placement test and give directions for registration in the proper writing course. If you are a transfer student and your transcript has been evaluated by your admitting college, then you may have already received credit for a particular writing course. If you are a transfer student who has NOT been given transfer credit for a writing course, you will need to take the Transfer Placement Test. This test presents you with a passage to read and a question that asks you to respond to ideas in that passage. You have two hours to write an essay in response. Booklets are provided at the testing site.

Transfer students who have received credit for Expos 101 who are also required to complete an advanced writing requirement by their college should be aware that English 301 is a course designed specifically for transfer students, and fulfills the advanced writing requirement in most colleges (see Frequently Asked Questions: Requirements for details). English 301 is designed as a transition course to Rutgers where students practice the basic skills of expository writing before moving on to an individual research project in which students produce and 8-10 page final research paper. For more information, please go to 301 Course Homepage.

• If you have questions about the writing requirements of your college or program, please go to Frequently Asked Questions About: Requirements.

• If you have questions about the placement process in general, or about your placement results in particular, please go to Frequently Asked Questions About: Placement.

• For more information about transfer students and the Writing Program, please go to Frequently Asked Questions About: transfer students.

• If you have questions about other aspects of the Writing Program and its courses, please go to the Writing Program's For Students: Frequently Asked Questions homepage.