<p>does graduate school looks at your UC GPA only or CC GPA only or both?</p>
<p>In addition, the graduate school looks at GPA, GMAT and what other factors?</p>
<p>both! I think GRE too, not too sure what that stands for tho lol</p>
<p>why would they look at CC GPA only? lol</p>
<p>They mostly look at your UC GPA…the fact that you got into a UC means you had a decent GPA at CC (most of the time, especially if you got into UCLA/UCB/UCSD)…So yeah…they might “look” at your CC GPA, but they weight UC GPA wayyy more…Also good GMAT score is crucial to get into a good Business Grad School as is work experience.</p>
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<li><p>sorry… no. that’s a load of crap. </p></li>
<li><p>when applying to grad schools, your GPA is comprised of EVERYTHING for which you’ve ever attempted to earn credit.</p>
<pre><code> + if you’ve ever retaken a class - say an F for an A - both grades will be a part of the average.
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<li><p>W’s don’t count at all toward your GPA (since, having withdrawn, you aren’t considered to have made an attempt to earn credit(s))… though, if you have many, you’ll find yourself inclined to explain them in an addendum. </p></li>
<li><p>grades from CC and grades from UC are not ‘weighted’ differently… they’re not ‘weighted’ at all… they are what they are, and they ALL count. </p></li>
<li><p>pass/fail courses are taken into account differently depending on the institution to which you apply, or even the field in general; i.e., med schools might consider them differently than would law schools… or stanford might consider them differently than would UCSD…</p></li>
<li><p>the dude above was right about two things, though - and if you do your own research, you’ll be even more convinced… </p></li>
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<p>grad schools - specifically law schools (what i’ve researched a loooooooooooot about), care more about your numbers (GPA / LSAT; GPA / MCAT; GPA / GRE) than about ANYTHING else…</p>
<p>pretend like your odds are 45% GPA, 45% entry test score (ets) and 10% everything else (clubs, internships, work experience, working through college, low income, 1st generation college student, essays, upward grade trends, etc)… </p>
<p>what you lack in GPA, you should make up for in your ETS. a lot of what factors into your acceptances will be whether or not your numbers are above school medians – it should come as no surprise that admissions become increasingly competitive as you attempt to climb the ranks… generally, the better the school (the higher ranked it is), the higher the median GPA / ETS of students admitted… if, regarding your scores, one is above and one isn’t, you’ve probably got a shot… if both are above, you’re likely in… if neither is above, you probably shouldn’t get your hopes up… </p>
<p>that is… UNLESS</p>
<p>1) you qualify as an an Under Represented Minority (black, hispanic / latino or american indian – sorry everyone else…)</p>
<pre><code> + if you fall under URM status, do NOT underestimate your advantage. it’s big. like, big, big.
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<p>2) you gain a year or two (or more) of quality work experience after college and before you apply… </p>
<pre><code> +for some schools, WE is more important than it is for others… but if like me, you’ll be trying to put some distance between insufficient grades received a while back, or if you just need to compensate for a lacking GPA, WE in an incredibly viable option to make you more competitive for top schools.
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<p>i can’t believe i just ranted all that off.
your best bet is to do the research yourself… </p>
<p>also, if you’re like sandaboy, and don’t know what you’re talking about, try not to taint the minds of others with your ignorance and just ask… or actually look it up… or - get this - you don’t even have to post at all! and then insomniatic vagabonds like myself won’t have to write novels at 1:45 in the a;lsk morning.</p>
<p>Check your subject and department for grad school, especially for UCs and professional schools they mainly look at your last two year of study, where you attained you bachelors. </p>
<p>“UCLA’s Graduate Division sets a minimum grade-point requirement for admissions of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale), or its equivalent, for the last two years of undergraduate and any post-baccalaureate study”</p>
<p>They will look at your CC grades but it is definitely not weighted absolutely the same with no consideration for upper division courses.</p>
<p>@ pinkerfloyd</p>
<p>After re-reading what I wrote, I must say parts of it could have been rephrased to avoid confusion.</p>
<p>I did not mean “weight” in the literal sense of the word. I just meant grad schools would be more keen on how you did at a UC because that is where you would be taking your upper division classes. It is pretty obvious that they would care more about these than breadth requirements which are predominantly found on CC transcripts. </p>
<p>The whole part I said about the “you probably have a decent GPA” was only my speculation in an effort to ease the OP’s concern. It was my opinion. I did not mean to make it sound like the grad school admissions officers would be thinking this. I apologize if I made it sound this way.</p>
<p>The point I meant to get across was that your performance at the UC level would matter more overall in terms of admission to a grad school–not JUST in the GPA sense. </p>
<p>Just for reference, most people on this similar thread agree with what I am saying:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/graduate-school/836917-what-gpa-will-grad-schools-use-if-i-went-community-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/graduate-school/836917-what-gpa-will-grad-schools-use-if-i-went-community-college.html</a></p>
<p>@ paveth</p>
<p>Yes, Thank You!</p>
<p>touch</p>
<p>It’s easy. Just aim for over a 3.5 GPA at a 4 year, then around a 170 on the LSAT. The lower the GPA, the more that 170 and above matters. The higher the GPA, the more breathing room you have on the LSAT, meaning 160-169 range is acceptable. This is generally speaking. If you want a top ivy school you need 3.7+ with nothing below a 170. Pinkerfloyd, how are you going to act like an expert, you don’t go to law school, or grad school. None of us are experts, we just give the information we’ve heard from counselors, at least I do. Your knowledge is no more privileged than ours, nor are your generalizations any less general.</p>
<p>@ pinkerfloyd</p>
<p>It’s all good bro…I’m hella tired as well, and I totally agree that the GPA in the literal sense is averaged for many grad schools…the weight IS subjective as you say as well in many cases.</p>
<p>@ Vintij</p>
<p>Totally agree when you say “none of us are experts”. Though there might be some secret undercover admissions officers lurking on these forums lol jk (but still…maybe 
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<p>yeah… ‘easy’… the GPA, sure… the LSAT? not so much… for 2010, 170-172 puts you in the 98th percentile… realize that this doesn’t mean that you’ll have to have received a 98% on the test… it means rather that you’ll have to have done better than 98% of ALL people taking the test that year… no small feat, bro.</p>
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<p>yes and maybe. yes to the first part, maybe to the second… “160-169 range is acceptable.” well, sure it is… but ‘acceptable’ to which schools? with a 4.0 / 168 (unless you’re URM / non traditional with crazy work experience) you’re not getting into columbia… georgetown, on the other hand, might well kick you down some money… </p>
<p>with a 4.0 / 160, without some seriously impressive softs, you’re probably not going to break the top 25 -especially not straight out of undergrad… </p>
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<p>first of all, top law schools are not necessarily ‘ivy’. stanford, berkeley and chicago, for example, are considered better schools than UPenn and cornell. for all ranking purposes, just about everyone, everywhere refers to this ([Rankings</a> - Best Law Schools - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/rankings)). to the vast majority of applicants / employers, the top 14 (T14) stand out significantly above the rest. </p>
<p>now, 3.7+ with ‘nothing below a 170’? stop making things up. some schools are more partial to grades just as others favor LSAT scores… chicago’s medians are 3.67 / 171 vs berkeley’s at 3.8 / 166… it’s perfectly feasible to get into a top school with <3.7 or <170; albeit, probably not < both.</p>
<p>in addition to this, certain top schools are even more forgiving about grade / lsat disparities. there exists a fair chunk of applicants who fall into ‘splitter’ range. these are people who’ve got low GPAs matched with excellent LSAT scores. some top schools are particularly partial to splitters and, as such, it’s not unheard of for people with a 3.0-3.3 / 170-171 and a year or two of work experience to end up in the T14 - specifically, Northwestern, Georgetown and Michigan (in about that order)… if you step outside of T14, to 17- 25 (not 15 / 16, because UCLA and UTAustin are GPA whores), you’ve got a great shot not only at entry, but at receiving money as well… </p>
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<p>okay, bro… whatever you say… i’m no expert… but, in addition to talking to counselors who have for the most part proven useless, i have spent hours upon hours looking this **** up… on forums, specialty sites, prep books and other publications… there isn’t a WHOLE lot to this. if you have trouble believing anything i’ve said, no one’s putting a gun to your head… go look it up yourself. at that, i dare you to find one inaccuracy with anything i’ve said, insofar as law schools / law schools admissions are concerned. </p>
<p>for your own edification: </p>
<p>[LSN</a> :: Welcome to LawSchoolNumbers.com](<a href=“Recently Updated J.D. Profiles | Law School Numbers”>http://lawschoolnumbers.com/)</p>
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<p>Rape that shiiiii pinkerfloyd!!! ;d</p>
<p>they look at everything, including repeated courses. They look at individual grades too.</p>
<p>they weight the grades from the last 60/90 units and courses from your intended area of study MUCH more heavily though.</p>
<p>there are a lot of factors in play. Getting a B in an introduction to psychology class when you’re 16 might show you were a bit immature at the time, but if you’ve progressed you can hypothetically get into an Ivy league school with a 3.0 GPA from your CC(for roughly 70 units) and a 4.0 for 50-60units at a UC provided you have a GRE 1.5-2.0 deviations above the mean, solid work/internship experience and overall solid ECs and a killer essay.</p>