<p>I transferred to UC Davis last year after fulfilling my IGETC at a CC. I'm beginning the grad school application process and now I'm wondering if my GPA will be cumulative (CC + UC GPA). It'd be incredibly depressing if grad schools totally disregarded the CC GPA...</p>
<p>Davis will report your GPA as they calculate it. If the application asks you to fill in your cumulative GPA, as most do, then you use both. Graduate programs are mostly concerned with your major GPA and your grades over the last two years in advanced courses.</p>
<p>Make sure you send academic transcripts from all post-secondary schools you attended.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick reply. I emailed a potential SLP Master’s program to ask them this specific question because I’m seriously FREAKING out. I need around a 3.7, while I have a mere 3.2 GPA in my major. I have just one year left, and I don’t think I can raise my cumulative GPA much.</p>
<p>Not to freak you out more . . . but when looking at your transcript, graduate programs will care more about your grades from a four-year university than from a CC since it is assumed, whether rightly or wrongly, that a CC is easier. And that 3.2 in your major will count more than your overall GPA.</p>
<p>Why do you need a 3.7? </p>
<p>Since you should be applying now, nothing you do this year will affect your application. If you think you can get better grades this year, then you might want to wait a year so schools can have a more accurate assessment of your ability. It doesn’t matter much if you raise your GPA in any significant way, just that your transcript looks as though you can handle advanced coursework.</p>
<p>Just to add to the comment above. I’m not sure what program you are applying to/what the deadlines are, but a lot of schools have deadlines around January 15 or so. If they do not have rolling admissions, you can send in your transcript right after the fall semester and it would be fine. If everything else is done, your application would pretty much be complete by Christmas. That is, if you think this last semester would enhance your application in a significant way.</p>
<p>I need a 3.7 because most Speech-Language Pathology programs, being very competitive in California and probably elsewhere, claim this is the average GPA of admitted grad students. The average GRE scores are around 1200, which I think I can accomplish. The sad part is that I don’t have any clinical experience, either, as I only decided I wanted to do SLP in July. That’s why I feel so overwhelmed at this point…</p>
<p>I think a 3.2 major GPA is hardly enough. I’m crossing my fingers for straight As…</p>
<p>My plan is to apply to schools this fall. And yes, all of the schools I’m applying to have a January deadline, and I’m happy to hear my Fall '10 grades won’t be worked for in vain (though I know there’s value in education in and of itself, blah blah). If I don’t get accepted anywhere even as a “conditional” Master’s student (since I’m not an SLP major), I plan to wait a year before I apply again in order to get adequate experience by shadowing a therapist, saving money for school by working, and doing whatever else it takes to get into a program. I know I’ll freak out more/become depressed for a while if I have to wait a year, though.</p>
<p>Also, can’t I just send in my complete transcript after graduating? I won’t be done with my major courseload until graduation, so I assume schools would like to see those completed.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses!</p>