<p>I have attended two colleges. College #1 was a community college where I did exceptionally well in (3.9 GPA). My second college was a business college (4-year) that I didn't do quite as well in. I want to major in clinical laboratory science at my local university, so the business college credits are completely useless.</p>
<p>Is it possible for me to contact admissions after I send in both transcripts and request my GPA and credits from the second college not transfer? I do not want to lose upwards of .3 points off my GPA.</p>
<p>This info is pretty critical as I can't decide whether to drop out of my current business program now or wait until I graduate. If they're going to transfer, I am dropping now before my GPA plummets (I just love team-based grades...).</p>
<p>EDIT: I forgot to mention the equivalency tables at the university I attend to not include the courses I took at the business college. However, the university sometimes will allow transfers as an upper/lower division business elective.</p>
<p>You don’t “transfer” GPA. Your GPA at any institution is a reflection of your grades at that particular place. Transfer students get credit (almost like Pass/Fail) for the classes they have taken, but your GPA resets at a new school.</p>
<p>College #3 will decide which courses to give you transfer credit or advanced standing for. You don’t have to help them with this decision.</p>
<p>As Bait&Switch says, the new place will calculate your GPA at that place based on the courses you actually take at that place. Previous GPAs from where ever else you earned them won’t matter.</p>
<p>Whether or not you should complete your current Business program is entirely up to you. Do you want that degree? Or, would you rather just have a bunch of business credits in your academic history, and get on with your life? If you are trying to figure out whether to finish out a semester or not, I’d say finish the semester.</p>
<p>Actually, there are some colleges that WILL factor the previous school’s GPA into the cumulative GPA. The policy is up to the individual school.</p>
<p>My school, for one. Unfortunate, since I have two OK grades and one bombed one on the transcript from the community college where I took a few online courses as a freshman in high school. My university transferred the credits, which resulted in me starting out as a freshman with a sub-3.0 GPA that will take awhile to bring up even with 4.0 semesters here.</p>
<p>I’m going to find out if I can “un-transfer” the credits and start with a clean slate; you wouldn’t think the university would have a problem with that, since it forces me to pay them one more semester’s tuition and fees, but we’ll see. When I find out, I’ll add the results here for future searchers.</p>
<p>If anyone here knows something about usual policies on this sort of thing, please put in your two cents as well.</p>
<p>At my school, I’m loosing credits for the course I’m repeating. (I got a decent grade in that class, but I didn’t think I was ready for the next level at my new school). Of course, my current school saw my original grade when I applied.</p>
<p>By the way, your transcript from your first school never goes away, so it may not matter if your GPA is erased or not at your new school.</p>
<p>I’ve been told that all previous college coursework must be reported, and (apparently) is subsequently transferred, GPA and all. This is just my school – I have no idea if it holds anywhere else. I’d suggest anyone else wondering about this get a school-specific answer.</p>
<p>I know of people who have successfully gone the route of simply not reporting a transcript they didn’t want on record at a new school, but that wasn’t an option for me, since the I took the CC classes for HS credit and had to package the CC transcript with the HS.</p>