Transferring to Emory: your chances, deadlines and credits

The data report gives one fall 2025 transfer total. Emory says Goizueta Business School takes a small cohort of outside transfers each year, so that school is a smaller door than the total suggests.

Source: Emory Common Data Set, section D, 2025-2026; Emory admission FAQs, undated page

Oxford College does not accept transfer applicants.

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You apply through the Common App. You send an official college report, official transcripts from every college including summer courses, and your high school transcript covering four years and your graduation date. The fee is $75 or a waiver.

Source: Emory transfer applicants, undated page

One faculty recommendation or academic evaluation is required. Employer recommendations are accepted if you have been out of college at least one full year.

Source: Emory transfer applicants, undated page; Emory admission FAQs, undated page

Fall 2027 transfer applicants do not need test scores. The FAQ also mentions fall 2028, so confirm which term the policy covers.

Source: Emory admission FAQs, undated page

If you already hold a bachelor's degree you are not eligible for transfer admission to Emory College.

Source: Emory admission FAQs, undated page

Fall entry only. The application deadline is March 15 and the financial aid deadline is March 17. Decisions come by early May.

Source: Emory transfer applicants, undated page

You must apply for aid at the same time you apply for admission. Late aid applications are not considered.

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Emory requires a 3.0 cumulative GPA and says most admitted students have a 3.5 or better.

Source: Emory transfer applicants, undated page

You need one full-time year at another college, or to be in the second semester of it. You need at least 28 credit hours finished or in progress, and AP, IB and dual-enrollment credit does not count toward the 28.

Source: Emory transfer applicants, undated page

Goizueta encourages sophomore-year entry. Junior-year entry is possible for highly qualified applicants who were not already studying business. Applicants with many business courses elsewhere are poor candidates, because Goizueta wants most business coursework done at Emory.

Source: Emory admission FAQs, undated page

You can ask Emory College to consider you as a second choice if you apply to Goizueta.

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Nursing applicants who have finished the BSN prerequisites by their start term apply to the School of Nursing. Everyone else applies to Emory College.

Source: Emory admission FAQs, undated page

There is no interview for transfers. You must be able to finish four semesters at Emory.

Source: Emory admission FAQs, undated page; Emory transfer applicants, undated page

The Emory transfer pages we read list no Emory essay prompt. You apply through the Common App.

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Emory does not evaluate credit before you are admitted. Staff cannot tell you in advance which courses transfer. Evaluation takes four to five weeks after admission, and the result is tentative until the end of your first semester.

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Up to 62 semester hours transfer. You need 124 total to graduate, 62 of them at Emory, so a student who brings the maximum needs 128 total. Emory gives no credit for distance education courses.

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The data report lists 62 credits as the maximum from a two-year school and 66 from a four-year school. The admissions pages say 62 and do not separate the two.

Source: Emory Common Data Set, section D, 2025-2026; Emory transfer applicants, undated page

Merit aid is not available to transfer students. Need-based aid is not available to international transfers.

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Housing is not promised to transfers. Assignments are first come, first served.

Source: Emory admission FAQs, undated page

Denied applicants may reapply the following fall. Admitted transfers who do not enroll must wait a full academic year and submit a new Common App.

Source: Emory admission FAQs, undated page