[Kate*]

Transcripts: Your school will keep your transcripts and they will need to be sent from your school to the college(s) directly. If you're still in school you can ask the guidance office secretary and there will probably be a form to fill out. Once you graduate, you can call the guidance office and ask for them to be sent and to where and there might be a small fee. Mine was 4 or 5 dollars, if you haven't graduated yet they will send them for free.

Core prerequisites, and major courses: This is confusing for some people, no worries. If you go to community college you will likely be taking what most colleges call "core courses" these are classes that every undergraduate student has to take regardless of what they want a degree in and taking them at community college can save you a lot of money.

Major: Your major is the group of specific courses that you have to take in order to get your degree in something so in addition to what everyone needs, you take courses required for your major.

Prerequisites: Some courses, (mostly your major courses) will require prerequisites, these are classes that you have to complete before you can take a different class. So, for example, you would need to take Principles of Psychology (the basic overview of the subject) before you took Psychology of Learning (more specific area within the same subject). It's just to make sure you have a basic overview of something before you take a class that's more detailed so you aren't completely lost.

Transferring: Transferring is a great idea as long as you make sure that what ever school you transfer to will take the classes you have. For undergrads this isn't usually a problem since every school has versions of the core courses. It could become an issue with major courses (the school I transferred to had a weird rule about only accepting transfer credit for a certain amount of your major courses), but most places you would be okay.