<p>Hey guys I am new to this site and had a question that has been bothering me for a while. I attended my first year of college at an engineering school in florida called embry-riddle. my first semester I took 4 courses got a 3.2 gpa. The next semester I went through some family problems and ended up failing 2 out of my 4 classes (physics II and Computer Programming) and got Bs in my other 2 classes. I then decided to transfer to SBCC with intentions to transfer to UCSB as a mechanical engineer. my first semester at SBCC i was taking 3 courses, the physics II course I failed at my last university, Calc II, and the 2nd required english course. I ended up hating CC and failed all 3 of my classes. I decided that winter that I no longer wanted to be an engineer and was more interested in accounting. I took up a full load of courses (17 units) including, macroecon and statistics, and ended up getting a 3.82 gpa. It is now summer session and im am doing both the english course and Calc II courses I failed my first semester at SBCC and am doing quite well. in the upcoming fall semester I plan on doing the Physics course I failed once at CC and once at my prior university as well as the computer programming course I failed at my prior university. My main concern which has been stressing me out for the past month is will UC admissions take the physics and programming courses in place of the ones I failed in my prior university? Any input would be helpful, as this greatly affects my chanced of getting into UCSB as a bus econ major.</p>
<p>I would guess “yes” but it shouldn’t be that big of an issue either way. UCSB has a very close relationship with SBCC, ie: you’re basically guaranteed admission. (I knew someone who failed every single class his last semester at SBCC and still went onto UC)</p>
<p>talk to your counselor nonetheless. They’re very helpful.</p>
<p>They won’t take them in place of what you failed. Basically, the F’s are still going to be calculated into your gpa. This is what happened to me. I failed a bio class at a csu and thought I could just make it up at my community college but a counselor told me that the only school that could change that F was the csu where I received it. So basically I would have to retake the class at the csu to “make the F go away” or have it replaced. Just try taking a lot of classes to try to bump up your gpa.</p>
<p>Good job on the 3.8 GPA in accounting! Colleges like to see an upward trend in GPA. Agree with other poster to check in with the counseling office at your CC. You can’t undo courses from Embry with courses at CC. Your transcript from Embry will stand.
For courses taken at CC, the CC repeats will show up on your CC transcript as a Repeat along with the original grades, and they calculate only the repeat grade in for your GPA. Some CC’s have a GPA renewal action you can petition for and it works something like this: Say you have an F in a course (physics) and you don’t plan to repeat the class because you won’t need it for your Econ major. After you have completed a couple of semesters of CC with no grades lower than a C, with the petition, they will recalc your overall SBCC GPA without including the F. The F will show on the transcript but your transfer GPA will be improved. One thing you can do when you apply to UCSB is to explain your difficulties in the personal statement. A suggestion, you might be better off taking a course that will transfer to UCSB as a core major prerequisite rather than repeating the physics class, but again, run it by your counselor. Good luck, you are not alone in this situation!</p>
<p>Just wondering if you have any suggestions if my past university does not offer academic renewal. The two Fs on my transcript do alot of damage to my gpa and makes it close to impossible to reach the 3.2 minimum gpa requirment.</p>
<p>Sorry, but your counselor was incorrect. Grades received at CSU’s can be replaced by the UC’s when determining your GPA. I’m not sure how they handle out of state schools though. Call the admissions office of the UC you plan to apply to, do not take your CC’s counsleor’s word as the truth. Sucks I have to say that, but I’ve learned they really.don’t know how grade replacement works outside of their CC.</p>
<p>Just to make my previous post more clear. The grade replacement is only done by the UC’s for determining your GPA. Your bad grade will remain on your transcripts and GPA at the school where you received the grade.</p>
<p>thanks for all the advice guys. I tried getting some answers from my CC but they painted me a pretty bleek picture. hopefull UCSB will give me some answers when I contact their admissions office</p>
<p>UChopeful, how do you know that for sure? Did something similar happen to you? I failed a bio course but feel like two of the bio courses taken at my community college can make up for that one class…</p>
<p>Yes, I retook two classes I had failed at CSU Fresno at my CC. And although my counselors at CC told me the same thing as yours told you, I contacted admissions for the UC’s I applied to, and was told that if they were equivalent they will replace the grades when determining GPA.</p>
<p>Did they transfer over exactly? For example, if you failed a poli sci 1 class at your csu, on assist was the course listed as transferable from the cc to the csu? I guess my class is different. There isn’t ONE class at my cc that would equal the class I took at the csu. But I think that if I took the first and second in a three course series it would qualify as the class I failed at my csu.</p>
<p>thanks that gives me some hope. But my main concern is that there is no one who will tell me in UC admissions if the courses match until after I apply which is useless to me so it’s a pretty frustrating situation.</p>
<p>I actually found UCSB to be most helpful of all the UC’s I applied to, when I was trying to figure all this stuff out, so definitely give them a call.</p>