<p>I know that the UC's factor your 10th and 11th grades towards the UC gpa. </p>
<p>Would this be the same for transfers? Would your 12th grade year get factored into the UC gpa too? </p>
<p>High school grades are not factored at all. The only grades that are factored in are the 60+ units that you have completed at the college level.</p>
<p>Second what @2016Candles said.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>So basically high school doesn’t matter at all to colleges if you are transfer? Wow, I did not know that. Why do they request for your high school transcript then? </p>
<p>@learner83 </p>
<p>Probably to verify that you graduated from high school. Not all UCs requet high school transcripts, though.</p>
<p>Where the hell did you hear that UCs factor in your 10th and 11th grades towards your UC GPA?</p>
<p>@k4201505 </p>
<p>I mean for getting accepted to a UC for freshmen applicants.</p>
<p>@learner83 Some of the requirements can be filled by highschool classes, like language requirements or American Institutions/History. And of course proof that you’ve graduated. But highschool GPA and coursework won’t affect your admissions at all.</p>
<p>So that means I can slack in high school as long as I pass if I plan on transferring which I am?</p>
<p>Honestly, yes, you could slack. I know it’s not the best thing to say, but that’s actually what many of us on the transfer forum did, including myself. I didn’t do it intentionally with the plan of transferring later, but that’s what ended up happening. I think transferring is easier than being admitted from high school. It’s kind of funny actually, although I wasn’t a good student in high school, I ended up getting into a better school than pretty much everyone in my graduating class. That’s not bragging, I just happen to be from a state with no elite colleges, and I got lucky by deciding to go to community college in California. But yeah, I’m sure people will tell you to try your best in high school, but really as long as you do well enough to graduate and be ready for community college, you will be fine. I will warn you that it might be difficult to all of a sudden have to try after a few years of slacking, but you can certainly do it. I did. Good luck.</p>
<p>@music1990</p>
<p>I don’t really mean like completely slacking. I meant like I won’t be pulling all nighters trying to finish projects and homework and spending my whole weekend studying for tests and SAT.
I would be a normal high school student lol…</p>
<p>Someone told me that getting into Yale is easier by transfer than from high school if you get very good grades in college.</p>
<p>That’s not true about Yale. They only accept about 25 transfers a year and close to 1000 applicants. That’s an admit rate of about 2.5%. Freshman admit rate is 7%. Freshman applicant pool is much larger, but the admit rate is much lower for transfers.</p>
<p>Don’t plan on getting into any elite privates as a transfer.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t plan on going to elite privates like Yale anyways as transfer (maybe graduate school).</p>
<p>Which leads me to another question.</p>
<p>If I transfer after 2 years from a less selective UC or community college to UCLA/UCB, will it be tougher to get into a selective graduate school like Stanford or Cornell? </p>
<p>Grad school is an entirely different animal…Name brand can only go so far. It’ll depend on your type of major, GPA, GRE scores, research/experience, references, etc.</p>