<p>I am about to finish my second year in community college and my gpa is not the greatest. After I retake three classes and finish another year with good grades it will only be in the high 2's. This would be ok if I wanted to get into a state school, but getting into a UC(I live in Southern California btw) would be ideal.</p>
<p>I was thinking I could either do one more year at the community college I'm at right now, and transfer with a crap gpa, or go to Nevada and just start over community college and shoot for a 4.0, and then transfer to a top UC school.</p>
<p>Is doing something like this even possible, or will my first transcript come back to bite me??? The other thing is, for grad school, even the classes I replaced on my first transcript will be factored in to my gpa, which would be horrible, and another reason I want to just start over.</p>
<p>Any help is much appreciated.</p>
<p>Whenever you apply for admission to a degree program at an accredited college or university in the US you will need to provide official copies of all of your transcripts. So no, you can’t just “start over”.</p>
<p>However, every admissions officer on the planet has seen transcripts even worse than yours. They know that some people take longer than others to figure out how to deal with college-level work. Your newest grades will be more important than your older ones.</p>
<p>My undergrad GPA was 2.7. I went back to school in a different field of study and pulled about a 3.9 in the courses needed to apply to grad school. My profs. loved me because I was serious and dedicated and so they wrote dynamite letters of recommendation. I got into all of the grad programs that I applied to. So, I do know that it can be done. Now you do too.</p>
<p>Would two transcripts from different schools be factored together for the overall gpa when transferring?? Even if all the prereq’s were retaken? And if not, will they matter when applying to law schools?</p>
<p>Each college/university/law school sets its own policy about that, so you really do need to ask each of the ones that you would like to apply to. As a community college transfer, usually it is best to complete a program that will guarantee you admission at one of the 4-year colleges/universities that your CC has a formal articulation agreement with. I understand that in California, there is a pretty straight-forward relationship between the CCCs and the universities in the UC and CSU systems. You should make an appointment with the transfer advisor at your CCC, and find out what options you will have if you complete a full associates degree, and what options you will have if you don’t.</p>
<p>@ AllBiz21: Why not apply for academic renewal? If those bad grades were from a while ago, you could get them removed off of your GPA. They’d still be on your transcript, but they’d be off your GPA pending you’ve done well since starting off poorly. I started at my CCC with 3 F’s :p.</p>