Why bother
An associate degree is a real credential — useful on a résumé while you finish the bachelor's, a fallback if life interrupts the four-year plan, and sometimes a bump in pay for jobs you hold along the way. Reverse transfer awards it retroactively from work you've already done.
The steps
Ask the Porter registrar to flag you for reverse transfer, or contact your old community college directly. You sign a consent form (FERPA), Porter sends the transcript, and the college evaluates. If you're a few credits short, they'll tell you which ones — often satisfiable by courses you're taking at Porter anyway.
In and around Porter Falls
Most families reach campus from the west on US 12 or by regional coach into the Depot District, and the Welcome Center at the Depot is where visits start.
The practical details
Who: Students who transferred to Porter before finishing an associate degree, and are close to its requirements. How: Consent to send your Porter transcript back to the community college, which applies the credits and awards the degree if requirements are met. Cost: Usually free or a small fee; you still finish your bachelor's at Porter. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of Admissions (Welcome Center at the Depot). Call (715) 555–0143 or email admissions@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.