<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I will most likely be attending a community college for the first 2 years and my goals are to get in UCLA biz/econ or USC marshal. I just have a few questions regarding community college GPA.</p>
<p>I took Principles of Microeconomics during the summer of my junior yr in HS and i got a B-. A community college representative told me that this will count for my UC gpa. Is this really true? I thought that you get to start over again when you go to community college. Kinda sucks starting with a 2.8 gpa, and its also part of my major prereq.</p>
<p>and what exactly factors into your transfer gpa. I'm guessing its all of the IGETC classes and the ones you take for your major prereq. What if you use classes in HS/AP credits to fulfill the IGETC requirements, will the HS grades be used in GPA. </p>
<p>thanks for your help</p>
<p>you don't get letter grades for ap scores.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, you are stuck with that grade of a B-, which I think is ridiculous as it was in high school, but that is the way the CCC bureaucracy operate; I would, however, recommend you explain it in your application that it was taken in high school (perhaps before your interest in the major took root, etc).</p>
<p>Any transferable course you take at any community college will be factored into your GPA; it does not matter if the course is not being used to fulfill your major prereqs or IGETC, if it transfers to a UC it will be counted regardless.</p>
<p>I've never heard of econ in high school being counted towards CC O_o
??</p>
<p>He took it at a community college, kmzizzle.</p>
<p>o no wonder</p>
<p>damn I did get an A in HS econ though!</p>
<p>B- in CC still counts as 3.0 (right?)
so you'll start with a 3.0 rather than a 2.8.</p>
<p>Since your major gpa will be looked at, especially for an impacted major like Econ, just do well in your other major prereq classes (as well as all the others). If you want to get into UCLA, think about doing the TAP program. And like the previous poster suggested, you can explain the B in the Microeconomics class.</p>
<p>"What if you use classes in HS/AP credits to fulfill the IGETC requirements, will the HS grades be used in GPA."</p>
<p>You can't use HS grades unless they were taken at a CC during your high school years. You only use AP credit if it benefits you, but yeah, you can use them to fulfill the IGETC requirements.</p>
<p>If the grade was earned at a CCC that operates under a plus/minus system his GPA will, in fact, be a 2.8. It doesn't matter if the CCC he/she attends now is plus/minus or a flat grading system, the 2.8 will stand.</p>
<p>If you do well in CCC over the next 2 years that B- won't be that bad since it is one class and probably worth no more than 3 or 4 units.</p>
<p>The only problem is that it was a major prereq.</p>
<p>ok thanks guys. It's actually a 2.7 but its just 1 class(4 units) and I won't let it bother me too much. Yeah its a major prereq but I figure if i do well in the other prereqs ill still end up with a relatively high gpa(3.8ish).</p>