Using credits from one undergrad degree to apply to another undergrad

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Some schools don't bother to check, but some do. Like I said, it's not a difficult process. Do you really want to take the chance that your school might not be one that checks? It sounds like COSC does check.

Below said 95 percent of all college attendance records are documented in the National Student Clearinghouse, a centralized database in the U.S. If a student applies at Southeast who did not just graduate from high school, Southeast has access to the National Student Clearinghouse system, called Student Tracker, which allows Southeast to view other colleges and universities that a student attended.

"On a college side we want to know everywhere they have attended," Below said. "I don't think all universities go to that extent and check the National Student Clearinghouse the same way, but we do because we know it's common for students to not disclose all the universities that they have attended. However, on an international landscape, obviously there is not a centralized database that tells us if a student has attended somewhere else."

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If your institution participates in our free DegreeVerify and EnrollmentVerify services and reports additional data elements, you will receive StudentTracker at no cost. - See more at: StudentTracker | National Student Clearinghouse

I haven't used the service before, but tracking a student could possibly be as easy as entering a name, date of birth, and social security number. Other parts of the admissions process take much longer than that.