Students graduate from Gatton with a high school diploma and an associates degree from WKU, but this does not affect their eligibility to apply for admission or scholarships as a first-time first-year student.

1. Each college and university has its own policies regarding transfer credit, so how your WKU courses transfer will depend on where you plan to attend. Some institutions will accept most or all of your WKU coursework, while others may limit the number of credit hours that can transfer. Institutions decide whether courses apply toward your major or count only as elective credit.
2. If you plan to attend WKU, all of your credits will fully transfer. Other public universities are also typically very transfer-friendly with WKU coursework. However, private colleges may be more selective about which credits they accept or how they apply them.
3. Many colleges maintain a transfer equivalency website where you can enter WKU course names or numbers to see how they might transfer to that particular institution. Keep in mind that these tools only list courses that have previously been evaluated for transfer. If you have a WKU course that isn’t listed, you can usually work with the transfer credit or registrar’s office at your future school to have it reviewed.

During their second semester, students have the opportunity to choose a staff member who they would like to write the counselor letter of recommendation for their college applications. The student and their assigned staff member then meet monthly throughout their senior year. In addition to providing individual support to the student throughout the college application process, these meetings also enable the staff member to write a letter of recommendation that is unique to each student.

It is important to us to help students identify and apply for opportunities to offset the cost of attendance for the college they decide to attend after Gatton. Some Kentucky schools offer automatic scholarships for Gatton graduates, which can cover a significant amount of the cost of attendance. These schools may adjust the specific award amounts and minimum requirements (e.g., GPA, test scores) for these opportunities year to year. Beyond Kentucky, Gatton students make strong candidates for major national scholarships such as Questbridge and the Goldwater Scholarship. Many universities offer their own highly competitive merit-based scholarships, which often cover most or all of tuition and expenses. The bottom line is that while graduation from Gatton is not a guarantee of automatic scholarships, students who take advantage of the opportunities our program provides, such as upper-level classes, research, leadership positions, studying abroad, etc. have a very competitive edge when applying for these awards.

When most students come to us, they are familiar with our in-state schools and a few highly selective universities. Our goal is for each student to find the right “fit” for them based on their unique interests and goals. This means that our students end up all over! See below for a list of schools to which Gatton students have chosen to attend.

• Agnes Scott College
• Alabama A&M University
• Amherst College
• Appalachian State University
• Arizona State University
• Auburn University
• Babson College
• Baylor University
• Bellarmine University
• Belmont University
• Berea College
• Berry College
• Boston University
• Brown University
• California Institute of Technology
• Carleton College
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Cedarville University
• Centre College
• Chapman University
• College of Charleston
• Colorado College
• Colorado State University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Davidson College
• Daytona State College
• DePaul University
• Duke Kunshan University
• Duke University
• Eckerd College
• Emory University
• Faulkner University
• Florida Institute of Technology
• Florida State University
• Franciscan University of Steubenville
• George Washington University
• Georgetown College
• Georgetown University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Gettysburg College
• Grinnell College
• Harvard University
• Hendrix College
• Indiana University Bloomington
• James Madison University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Kenyan College
• Kettering University
• Lindsey Wilson College

• Lipscomb University
• Macalester College
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• McGill University
• Miami University (OH)
• Michigan State University
• Michigan Technological University
• Mississippi University for Women
• Morehead State University
• Mount Holyoke College
• Murray State University
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• New York University
• North Carolina State University
• Northeastern University
• Northwestern University
• Ohio State University
• Oklahoma State University
• Oregon State University
• Pomona College
• Princeton University
• Purdue University
• Rice University
• Richard Bland College
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Royal Veterinary College
• Saint Louis University
• Savannah College of Art & Design
• Sewanee: The University of the South
• Smith College
• Southern Illinois University
• Southern Methodist University
• Stanford University
• Swarthmore College
• Syracuse University
• The Ohio State University
• Thomas More University
• Transylvania University
• Tulane
• Union College
• Union University
• United States Air Force Academy
• United States Military Academy West Point
• United States Naval Academy
• University at Albany
• University of Alabama
• University of Alabama, Birmingham
• University of Alabama in Huntsville
• University of Arizona
• University of California – Berkeley
• University of California – Santa Barbara
• University of Chicago
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• University of Delaware
• University of Evansville
• University of Florida
• University of Illinois
• University of Kentucky
• University of Louisville
• University of Maryland
• University of Massachusetts
• University of Miami
• University of Michigan
• University of Mississippi
• University of Missouri
• University of New Mexico
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pikeville
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Rochester
• University of Southern California
• University of Tennessee
• University of Texas
• University of Vermont
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Vanderbilt University
• Vassar College
• Virginia Tech
• Wake Forest University
• Washington University - St. Louis
• Webster University
• Western Kentucky University
• Western Washington University
• William & Mary
• Williams College
• Yale University