<p>Hi I'm a high school student whos taking community college classes to save money for the future and advance in credits. One of my friends told me that community college classes, especially math, bio, chem or physics will be counted in the GPA calculation for medical school. Is this true?</p>
<p>yeah, I also took community college courses but my grades weren't stellar. I would like to know if we have to submit CC courses that we took in high school to medical school.</p>
<p>YES.</p>
<p>You MUST submit ALL grades earned at post-secondary institutions, even if you were yet to graduate from HS. And they will be factored into your GPA that is assessed by the AAMC (from the AMCAS application).</p>
<p>What happens if you don't submit them? I forgot to withdraw on a D on a summer math coarse at the local JC, but I have no plans on going there again, so while I don't want that shown, I'll submit it, but I don't really understand how another college would even know (where I went previously if I don't tell them.)</p>
<p>Not sure what exactly would happen. But if they found out they might consider that fraud, and even if they dont' consider that fraud, it still doesn't reflect very well on your character, which is under consideration.</p>
<p>The thing is that your transcripts from your undergrad institution will contain any course work that you supply them prior to matriculation there, which you used for credit (even if they don't factor the CC grade in, even if it isn't fulfilling a requirement). For example: I had a 5 hour spanish class I took in HS, and it wasn't for a requirement or a prereq, and the grade didnt' factor into my Nebraska-Lincoln GPA. But instead of having to take 126 hours at UNL to graduate (though I could have taken hours elsewhere), I only had to take 121 hours actually at UNL. Those five hours showed up on my transcripts so that everything matched up the way it was supposed to. I suppose if I hadn't "used" those hours it might have been different.</p>
<p>What would happen if you took the course, but never used it for credit or anything. Also do aps factor into this also? I plan on not sending a transcript from a cc to the one I will attend in fall? Does it matter?</p>
<p>I'm in a similar predicament to some of y'all...my school might not offer AP bio next year, and I was thinking about taking it at the CC, but then I'd have to report it to AMCAS. It'd be wierd to see--at least i think so-- seeing that one year (my senior year of HS) I took a CC biology class, and then took biology the next year in college. </p>
<p>Do y'all think taking CC biology my senior year of HS and then biology in college would look strange?</p>
<p>I am planning on taking several dual enrollment classes year. Will those factor into my college GPA?</p>
<p>Billybob, it won't look strange. More than likely your credit (if it transfers) will put you past the intro bio course you would have taken, so you'd just be in the next couse of the bio sequence. And it likely won't be your last bio course either.</p>
<p>APs and how they will factor in to your GPA is dependent on which schools you go to. My uni used AP as an exemption from that class. You got the credit hours for free, but no grade attached. So AP did not affect my GPA. However, I know my friends at KU who scored a 4 on the Language AP got credit and grades (A in the comp I and B in comp II), and this did affect their GPA. So then it became a question of if they wanted to actually use the credit and if they thought they could get an A in comp II. Some cared, most didn't.</p>
<p>Similar thing with CC classes and the dual enrollment, it will depend on the school you go to for college. My CC credit was not taken for a grade by my university and so no damage to my GPA there - just affected on my AMCAS.</p>
<p>The safest thing you can do is just send everything in and let AMCAS sort it out. It is likely not to play as large as role on your GPA as you expect (unless you were to really bomb it). That way you don't have to worry about what to send in, what not to send in, nor run the risk of committing fraud and placing your acceptance at risk.</p>