<p>Im taking those in addition to my other hectic classes. Anyway, will those grades be transfered to my college gpa. I mean I will have about a 3.5 which is not horrible but I was just wondering. Can I decide not to use those grades? Basically, what Im asking is that is my college gpa include 12th grade or only starts when I enter college?</p>
<p>i believe you start out fresh when you enter college</p>
<p>Will it be counted in my gpa if I want to pursue a higher education after college for example any type of graduate school?</p>
<p>You have the option to choose, if your future college allows it, which grades you want on your transcript and which you don't want to transfer at all. Also at some schools (UT for example) it is possible to just transfer the credits and not the grade (which I will do with all my AP 4's and B's from colleges).</p>
<p>It depends on how your high school handles college courses in high school. If the courses get transcripted on your h.s. transcript (and are usually not calculated into GPA) and you are given high school credit then no, you will not recieve college credit at either the grad or undergrad level.</p>
<p>Many schools do not give credit for college courses taken before the student matriculates.</p>
<p>From my friend Marite:</p>
<p>Actually there are different issues involved: admission, credit and placement.</p>
<p>I agree that for highly selective colleges, taking college/AP classes will put the applicant on the same footing as other applicants as far as admission is concerned.</p>
<p>For credit, colleges that offer the Advanced Standing option (not all do) prefer APs, unless they are part of a dual credit system, as are the UCs. Otherwise, college classes do not count toward credit, even those taken at the college the applicant ends up attending (S's personal experience).</p>
<p>For placement, however, having taken college/AP classes does count. This applies only to fields of study that progress in linear fashion, such as math. College classes do count in terms of placement, especially beyond the introductory level. Only Caltech, it seems, requires students who have taken APs to retake introductory classes.</p>
<p>the parents had pretty much the same discussion...</p>
<p>GPA and credit transfer depends completely on the individual colleges. The big question is: are you planning to permanently attend the college where you are currently taking those two classes? </p>
<p>If so, then they will count toward both credit and GPA.</p>
<p>If not, but if you do want to receive college credit for the courses at the next university you will attend, then those classes will probably be subject to the standard credit transfer policies of that university (unless they were taken under university special or non-degree status, in which case they may or may not transfer at all). If they do not accept the transfered credit, then the GPA has no effect on anything. Even if they do accept the credits, the GPA from those two classes will not be factored into the GPA you're beginning at this new university.</p>
<p>This does not mean that that old GPA ceases to exist, however; it only means that your GPAs at various universities will remain separate. When you apply to grad school they will request transcripts "from all institutions attended, even if it was only for one semester and even if you withdrew before grades were issued." </p>
<p>If you are so unhappy with the grades that you want record of the classes to disappear even if it means forfeiting college credit, then you could simply decide not to send that transcript in with your undergraduate application or send it in for admissions purposes but request that the credit not be evaluated for transfer. If you do this, you would have more room to argue at the grad-application level that the grades were part of your highschool record rather than college record, and so do not need to be submitted to grad schools. The grad schools would probably expect you to send such grades anyway, even if you did not use that credit toward your degree, but this way you would have a better explanation as to why you didn't include them.</p>
<p>Don't do that, though; a 3.5 really isn't bad, and those college credits are worth a lot of tuition money if you can get them transfered in.</p>