<p>I'm taking classes at a community college this summer. When I transfer the classes back to my main university, does it usually affect the GPA at the university?</p>
<p>umm, yeah can anyone please respond?...</p>
<p>We don't know what your main college is, so it's harder to help. Just to see what turned up for my own university, I used their search function and typed in "transfer credit". In the academic policies part of some page it told me that transfer credits are granted on a pass/fail basis and are not part of my GPA. Try asking your main university(or searching),</p>
<p>According to this, I believe that transfer work may be accounted for in the GPA:</p>
<p>Grade Point Average (GPA) Requirement</p>
<p>In order to receive a degree from the College of Engineering, a student must present a minimum grade point average of 2.00/4.00 in all work in the major. In addition, the student must satisfy the University requirement of a 2.00/4.00 grade point average in two categories: (1) all work taken at UIC; (2) all work taken at UIC and all other two- and four-year institutions combined.</p>
<p>I think usually it goes into your overall gpa but not your specific-college gpa.</p>
<p>The work taken at other universities than my university also has to pass the 2.0/4.0 requirement, but they still only show it on the transcript as credit on my transcript with no grade, like an AP class credit.</p>
<p>But based on this (Student</a> Records and Transcripts) it looks like they factor transfer credit grades. Seems strange to me, and I'd just send them an e-mail (the registrar would know immediately, and for sure), but I'd say that take grades with transfer credit.</p>
<p>Well in my school, i will need to check the course equivilency if it matches i have to pass it with a C and above to have credit for it. Once the gredit is transfer it will only say u have gain the credit and will not effect your gpa in your transcript.</p>
<p>At UIUC your UIUC gpa and transfer gpa are seperate. However your cummulative gpa is combined. Also, your transfer grades are on your transcripts so i wouldn't blow the classes off.</p>
<p>“(1) Undergraduate credit earned at another accredited University or college and accepted by the University of Illinois is recorded in semester hours. Grades earned are not indicated.”</p>
<p>[Student</a> Code: Section 3-703](<a href=“http://admin.illinois.edu/policy/code/article_3/a3_3-704.html]Student”>http://admin.illinois.edu/policy/code/article_3/a3_3-704.html)</p>
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<p>No it doesn’t and especially not at Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>If community college grades counted the same as university grades, everyone would take a bunch of B.S. courses at a community college and transfer in the 4.0.</p>
<p>What pretty much every school I know does it that they accept the transfer credit either as Pass/Fail or with a special designation on the transcript (a “T” at Georgia Tech). The class does not factor into the GPA calculation. The exception is that some schools with multiple campuses will transfer in classes from their other campuses. But they won’t transfer in community college grades.</p>
<p>In addition, some people feel the need to create their own GPA’s - “I was at Armstrong Atlantic State for 2 years and had a 4.0, and at Georgia Tech for 2 years and had a 2.0, so my overall GPA is a 3.0”. That was the most common way to get blackballed from my Fortune 100 company for lying on your resume.</p>
<p>Well said G.P. Burdell. Thats exactly how community college credit works over here in Texas :).</p>
<p>Wow. This is interesting. I always thought your GPA transfers and that would mean that community college students have an advantage in Medical School admissions, job acceptences, and grad school admissions. It is interesting that it doesn’t (and really shouldn’t) work that way.</p>
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<p>That’s exactly why it doesn’t work that way. A student with a 4.0 in 3 years at a community college + a 2.0 in 2 years at a university (roughly 3.2 average) is not a better student than a 3.0 in 4 years at that university. That’s exactly why grades don’t transfer, just credit.</p>
<p>In that situation, it’s common for students to report all GPAs (e.g. a university GPA of 2.0 and a CC GPA of 4.0), but you can’t combine them, average them, or do anything like that.</p>
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<p>Well, if you’re applying to law school they do actually smear together all of your GPAs to get your LSDAS GPA, which is what they focus on. I don’t know if medical schools do the same thing.</p>
<p>When you transfer to another college or university the course credits transfer from the prior school, but your GPA doesn’t. However, if you ever want to attend graduate, medical, or law school they will acquire about all your past colleges and universities transcripts.
I am in a similar situation. Most of my grades earned are (B’s); however, I earned 2 (C’s) and 1 (D) at my community college. My plan is to do well at my current 4 year university, and after I graduate get a job, and while working retake the courses I earned (C’s) or below at my local community college prior to pursing graduate or law school………. </p>
<p>By the way, I am from Philadelphia, PA…</p>
<p>Most schools won’t transfer in the grades from your old classes. Just list both GPAs on your resume and you’ll be fine.</p>