<p>Do your grades from your initial college ever matter, like when applying for grad school? </p>
<p>I'm guessing at least for med schools, which will need to see a certain number of science courses on your transcript, they might need your grades from your first school, but I'm not sure. Anyone have any information on this for applications for PhD, medical, business, law school, etc.?</p>
<p>What about employers? Do they care? </p>
<p>Can you put overall GPA from your new school and major GPA from your old school?</p>
<p>^that's some crazy stuff. You could do that if you specify- but doing so makes it look strange and artifical (which it is).</p>
<p>Within the boundaries of reasonable honesty, most people do two things
1) leave out their old school entirely and just start using the GPA from your new school (i.e., don't include the old GPA in the calculations)
2) list their old school on their cv with two seperate GPA calculations (one for each school)</p>
<p>Any other way (i.e. combining GPAs and not listing the old school, combining your new school GPA with a selected subset of grades from your old school [very bad]) is less than honest.</p>
<p>The simple rule is- make it easy to understand. Don't combine GPAs without specifying or <em>play around with which subset of grades to include</em> or do fuzzy math roundings, etc. (i.e.- just list what your transcript(s) say/s!)</p>
<p>Good call. I'll just put that I attended another institution. But will include only my university and GPA.</p>
<p>If they want more information, let them ask.</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure they see everywhere you went with degree seekign intent</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>As it goes, you have no say in this. If you apply to law school in particular, they will require transcripts from all colleges attended and will calculate their own overall GPA for you. I don't know much about med school admissions but imagine it is similar.</p>
<p>Grad schools require transcripts of all undergraduate work, from every institution you attended. Period.</p>
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<p>^ That is darned true ^ </p>
<p>Especially if you obtained a grant or loan for your Undergraduate course work. All your fin aid goes on that National Student Loan Database. So, it would be dreadful to fib. </p>
<p>W/R/T employers...Some (not all) employers would like to see proof of your educational background. So, on your resume, you put all of your University schooling and then state that you will provide a copy of your transcript upon request. Where I live that is what folks do. I kinda understand it (at least in terms of where I live) because anyone could claim most anything on a resume. But, I was also told, that you can submit a copy of your diploma as well. So, whatever. </p>
<p>Just do not lie, OP. It is far to easy to get caught.</p>