<p>Does anyone know if my GPA from a college I am in right now will count towards my GPA if I, say, transfer to Dartmouth/Upenn?</p>
<p>I've never heard of it happening.</p>
<p>im pretty sure it does. it seems unlikely that theyd just throw away 2 years of grades</p>
<p>Your new school doesn't include your gpa in your record there, though if you apply to graduate school you will have to submit transcripts from all of your previous colleges.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that your GDP does NOT transfer. Your credits may transfer, but not your grade, canyonbrad is correct, this is why you need to submit all your previous college transcripts when you apply to graduate school.</p>
<p>No your G.P.A. does not transfer, so with that said I believe that you have a clean slate.</p>
<p>Damn this question is asked ever 3 months on the transfer forum. lol</p>
<p>GPA doesnt trasnfer to the skoo and it starts all over. Although, for graduate school they count ur cumulative GPA (community college GPA+ the current University GPA.)</p>
<p>Well it depends as well for graduate school. If one applies to law school then yes, the community college GPA is also factored in. But if one applies to an engineering program then it's usually only upper division courses and some of the core science courses that are looked at.</p>
<p>"I am pretty sure that your GDP does NOT transfer."</p>
<p>Your GDP doesn't transfer?! Astonishing.</p>
<p>actually it depends on the school guys...usc it transfers</p>
<p>overall, gpa doesn't transfer</p>
<p>ummm... i know for SJSU UNDERGRAD, your community college gpa and units gets transferred over after like your second semester there. my sister's sjsu overall gpa significantly got a boost because she had a high gpa in CCC.</p>
<p>Your GPA wont transfer, so if you had a 3.0 at your first school, you'll still start at a 4.0 at your new school. However, you will still have that GPA from your first school for the rest of your life, so when future employers/schools/grad schools/programs/ect ask about your college GPA, you have to report both GPAs/both transcripts.</p>
<p>My prof told me that if you have say a 3.7 G.P.A in a CC, to put that in terms of a four year university you would have to deduct a whole point which would eventually knock it down to 2.7. I don't believe this. How many of you agree? I think a .3 or .4 deduction off your CC G.P.A. is more fitting.</p>
<p>Your professor is on crack. If colleges didn't think students at CCs would be able to hold a B average or so at their school, I doubt they'd admit them. Transfers also tend to be among the better performing students at their new schools.</p>
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My prof told me that if you have say a 3.7 G.P.A in a CC, to put that in terms of a four year university you would have to deduct a whole point which would eventually knock it down to 2.7. I don't believe this. How many of you agree? I think a .3 or .4 deduction off your CC G.P.A. is more fitting.
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<p>That is complete bull ****.</p>
<p>And it is true what brand_182 said about transfers tending to be among the better performing students at their new schools, GPA wise. But I wonder if it's because transfers skip most weeder classes that this tends to happen.</p>
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<p>Haha. Um...I am positive that this is a benefit for us. But transfers must still hold their own in the upper-level classes, which are difficult in their own way.</p>
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Haha. Um...I am positive that this is a benefit for us. But transfers must still hold their own in the upper-level classes, which are difficult in their own way.
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<p>Yeah, to emphasize this, the students who've done the lower-level courses come out of them knowing what the professors deem an A, B, C, and so forth. When you transfer, you almost immediately start the upper-levels, and you're "flying blind" until at least after the first semester.</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way, if I had continued to write the way I did during my first year, I would probably be earning Bs. Put roughly, A papers in community college/lower level universities are definitely not A papers at top schools. The professors demand much more from their students.</p>
<p>I had to learn the hard way the virtues of concision, precision, pithyness, and so forth. I have style guides memorized for a reason: it was the only way to survive and keep myself on pace with or ahead of the competition.</p>