<p>I took some classes at a local community college and Berkeley is asking me to send them a transcript from the CC. Will these grades from the community college affect my Berkeley GPA? What difference do these grades make?</p>
<p>They will not affect your GPA at UCB, but they will be taken into consideration by grad school adcoms.</p>
<p>Do these grad school adcoms look very seriously upon these community college grades?</p>
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Do these grad school adcoms look very seriously upon these community college grades?
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<p>No, but it might be factored into your overall GPA, which they might look at as without evaluating how that number is derived. An adcom might see 3.71 GPA, and not look at the individual courses and grades that make up that number.</p>
<p>kenf: overall GPA as in the overall GPA in my undergrad at Berkeley or overall GPA for grad school?</p>
<p>overall GPA for grad school. A grad school (like a law school, for instance) might calculate a GPA for you taking into account your community college and your UC classes. Your UC GPA on your UC transcript will not include community college grades, the transcript will only reflect the units transferred.</p>
<p>I see. How would a grad school even know you've taken one or two classes in the community college unless you tell them? is it wrong to not tell them that i've taken classes at a CC?</p>
<p>"I see. How would a grad school even know you've taken one or two classes in the community college unless you tell them? is it wrong to not tell them that i've taken classes at a CC?"</p>
<p>You send in transcripts from all the schools you have attended. Failure to do so is considered an act of dishonesty. The school can rescind your admission if it finds out you did not report all your courses and grades.</p>
<p>Also the CC classes will be listed on your UC transcript so they will know of their existence.</p>
<p>dang...what incentive is there then for high school students to challenge themselves at a community college if there is a risk of affecting their chances for grad school because of it</p>
<p>Earning college units early?</p>
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dang...what incentive is there then for high school students to challenge themselves at a community college if there is a risk of affecting their chances for grad school because of it
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<p>Life is full of risk. If you get good grades it looks good when you apply to college. You can also take the classes C/NC which might be a good idea for a lot of students.</p>
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You can also take the classes C/NC which might be a good idea for a lot of students.
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<p>If taken CR/NC, those classes are, many times, looked at as C's by grad-school adcoms.</p>
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If taken CR/NC, those classes are, many times, looked at as C's by grad-school adcoms.
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<p>That is incredibly misleading. Maybe if you are applying to medical school, and you take one of the med school prereqs (organic chemistry or whatever) C/NC, it might be as you describe. But in almost any other situation, that is simply false.</p>
<p>Also, there's no reason (as far as I know) you can't take a course C/NC at community college in high school and repeat that course at a UC in college, and have that grade count for med school.</p>
<p>@kenf1234,</p>
<p>Hmm, I am more inclined to believe that all UG grades are taken into consideration when applying to highly competitive grad school programs, which I would extend so far as MA and law schools; say at HYPS(whatever else has been lumped into this acronym), if a course is seen to have been taken CR/NC at a CCC during one's UG education, by an adcom, would they simply pass off the grade as simply credit?</p>
<p>Though, I don't think either of us have an absolute answer, as I, admittedly, am just regurgitating what I have heard echoed on these forums time after time; but, if you are willing to post the source of your information I am always open to reconsideration.</p>
<p>Why would they assume that a course taken CR/NC is equivalent to a C? That makes no sense. If I take Intro to Art at my local community college in 11th grade, why in the world would a law school count that as a C grade? It makes no sense.</p>
<p>Those units need to integrated into one's GPA somehow; and if, in fact, the course is taken CR/NC why would they have any reason to believe that the true grade would be anything higher than a C?</p>
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<p>No, they don't. Not unless they are for a specific prerequisite, like organic chemistry for med school.</p>
<p>Now, NC very well may be converted into an F for grad schools, that is a separate issue.</p>
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No, they don't. Not unless they are for a specific prerequisite
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As I said before, do you have anything to credit this? I am not asking to be contrarian, I am genuinely curious.</p>
<p>LSAC</a> Search Results</p>
<p>Unconverted Credit Hours
Although passing grades for courses
with only one or two passing grades are
not converted to the 4.0 scale, credit is
given for them in the LSDAS summary
(see “Grades Excluded From Conversion,”
page 25, for examples). These courses,
and any course for which the transcript
shows credit but no grade, appear in the
Unconverted Credit Hours section of the
LSDAS Law School Report.</p>