<p>I am just curious if the mechanism of covered grades for your 1st semester freshman year make the process of transferring out impossible or improbable after completion of your first year?</p>
<p>-Thanks</p>
<p>No, it is not a problem. You are given actual grades for first semester, it’s just that they are “covered” on the transcript with either a satisfactory or unsatisfactory grade and they don’t figure into your GPA calculation when you graduate. I don’t recall the details of the process, but there are circumstances, I believe such as applying to transfer, where a student can have the grades undercovered. You can check with the Registrars office–I suspect that their website will have more specific information. People can and do transfer (although not many) so obviously it is not an issue.</p>
<p>Much obliged!</p>
<p>nope, i know 3 people who tried transferring to Columbia this past year, and all three got in.</p>
<p>FYI- From the source
A transcript of first semester grades is neither given to the student nor mailed to the parents, and is not released outside the university. Faculty members may not release a student’s first semester grades.*** If a first-year student applies to transfer from the university in the spring term, before spring grades have been recorded, the student’s advising office can approve release of the actual first semester grades directly to the transfer institution. ***Once grades from the spring term or additional semesters have been added to the record, the covered grades will not be released. </p>
<p>[Academic</a> Regulations](<a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/design/oliver/academic_manual/grades.html#freshman]Academic”>http://www.jhu.edu/design/oliver/academic_manual/grades.html#freshman)</p>
<p>Also, there is a notation under your first semester covered grades if you make Dean’s List (3.5 or above), so while they may not know your exact GPA, they will know if you did well.</p>