<p>In high school I took five classes from a local university... I received 2 D's and one F. I was going through a lot with family/health/etc at the time. I am going into my Sophomore year at a different university, where I have a 3.9 GPA. I haven't transferred the other university's grades over yet... and I'm wondering if I ever have to? I'm worried they'll ruin my chances at a good grad school. Does anyone know what my options are?</p>
<p>If wanted to be sneaky you would even report the grades.</p>
<p>I believe that on applications universities request that you submit a transcript from all post-secondary institutions you’ve received a grade from. And I’ve read that there’s some kind of national database or something that has which institutions you’ve attended, so it’s possible to get caught if you don’t report certain grades. I don’t know if that’s true, though.</p>
<p>In my opinion, it’s best to just be safe and honest about the situation. Provided your GPA stays high like it is, four years of good grades will most certainly prove that those pre-university grades were not indicative of your capability. The schools you apply to will see your transcript, not just your cumulative GPA, so they’ll see what happened and understand. To be sure, it’s probably worth devoting a short sentence or two on your personal statement to explain the circumstances.</p>
<p>For the rest of your life, every single time you apply for admission to a degree or certificate program at an accredited college or university in the US, you will have to supply official transcripts from every single accredited college and university in the US that you have attended. In my case, this now means transcripts from seven (yes 7) different institutions.</p>
<p>If the old coursework isn’t necessary for your current program, you don’t have to try to transfer it to your new school. Usually courses with grades of less than C won’t transfer anyway. And in any case you the old grade normally isn’t recorded, just a note that transfer credit has been awarded.</p>
<p>When you apply to grad school, remember that old bad grades are much less important than new good grades. Don’t obsess about this, just send the transcripts. Any place that can’t tell bad grades earned while you were still in HS from good grades earned when you were a real college student is a place you wouldn’t want to be associated with anyway.</p>
<p>pretend you never went to that school. a friend of mine, one of the smartest people i’ve ever met, messed around his first year of university and flunked out. then took too many drugs and worked on a oil rig (the two go hand in hand) for a few years before enrolling in a small community college. he never told the community college that he had been to a university before, even though they ask for those grades when you apply. after a year, he transferred into one of the top schools in canada and has a perfect GPA.</p>
<p>that guy will be attending any university of his choice as soon as he gets the international drug trafficking charge removed from his record.</p>
<p>i wish i was making that up, but i’m not. anyway, yeah. don’t report the grades from the local university.</p>