Do all universities include grades in concurrent community college classes when calculating an applicant’s GPA? I know that UCs and CSUs do this (CC courses typically count as an honors course), but what about other schools?
You need to ask each place that you apply to what their policy is.
If you are asking whether GPA transfers, usually it does not. Only credits transfer.
You do have to ask your specific school. None of my kids’ grades that transferred over to their graduating schools were reported by those final colleges, nor were their GPAs at those colleges calculated using grades from anything except from those schools.
When applying to Graduate programs , or anything requesting a GPA, my kids had to calculate those other school courses. In some instances, transcripts are requested and then have to be ordered from those community colleges or other schools that contributed To college education.
Are you asking in which context?
- You are currently enrolled at a college, and are asking whether transfer credit grades count toward your GPA at that college for the purpose of determining honors or academic probation. Probably not, but check the policy of your college.
- You are in college and applying to graduate or professional school. Generally yes, you will recalculate your college GPA over all colleges. Similar applies if you are applying to transfer (although UCs and CSUs may limit that to transferable courses).
- You are in high school taking college courses as well as high school courses and are applying to college. Generally yes, although how colleges consider a mix of high school and college courses and grades depends on the college.
It varies by school - you would need to contact them.
It’s very unlikely that “all” college in the US do anything the same way.
Curious - what difference does it make? What will you do differently based on the answer?
In every case I have heard of (and yes there may be an exception) the college GPA only includes courses taken at that particular institution.
Other courses transferred to a student’s home college (such as from a CC, a prior college, summer courses taken at another college, etc. ) typically (again there certainly could be an exception I don’t know about) come in as a Pass/Fail and only the course name and credit show up on the transcript.
If applying to grad school you will need to send all of your transcripts and the grad schools will likely recalculate your GPA.