<p>When you transfer to a different college, does your GPA transfer as well?
For ex: transferring from a CCC to a UC. Once you are accepted, what happens to your CCC GPA? Does it stand, or do you start over? Thanks guys! I know that this may be a rather stupid question:)</p>
<p>Only the GPA for the TRANSFERRABLE courses will transfer.
The rest will be ignored.</p>
<p>Well.. generally, all courses you take at a CCC are transferrable..</p>
<p>I dunno how the wacky Californians do it, but in most cases, only credit for the classes transfers and your new GPA is seperate from your old. </p>
<p>However, your old GPA will follow you everywhere.</p>
<p>I meant to say UC TRANSFERRABLE ;P</p>
<p>Right. UC transferrable:) AND I am still confused:)</p>
<p>You do know the difference between UC Transferrable and the regular CSU Transferrable courses, right?</p>
<p>Ok, let's say you took 4 courses in a semester.
Let's say three of the courses are UC Transferrable courses, and one is CSU Transferrable but not UC Transferrable.</p>
<p>Whatever grade you get in the three UC Transferrable courses will transfer along when you transfer over to a UC. However, the grade you get for the CSU transferrable course will NOT transfer over because the course itself would not count in the UC system.</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p>I guess what I am trying to figure out is.. what GPA graduate schools consider.. I would assume.. it's the GPA of courses taken at the school you are applying from (in this case a UC). Am I wrong?</p>
<p>That makes sense :)</p>
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<p>Yep. All GPAs earned during college (from however many different schools) matter and from what I hear they are averaged together with respect to how many credits each GPA represents. I know this is true for law school and business school and assume it is true for the rest.</p>
<p>Your GPA does not transfer. The credits do. However, for graduate school, all credits earned will be considered with their respective grades. That means you're going to have a few GPAs.</p>
<p>For example, my record: I started at UCSC (1 year), attended RCC (1 year), and took classes at Foothill (1 semester). I am now going to Cal.</p>
<p>I will have: 1) A UC GPA (UCSC + UCB); 2) A UCB-only GPA; 3) A major GPA (transcript at UCB); 4) An overall GPA (UCSC + Foothill + RCC + UCB; this is the one that only grad schools will see/calculate); 5) The individual GPAs for each school I've sent them a transcript for (1, 2 and 3 appear on the same transcript, which is the one from UCB).</p>
<p>When you apply to grad school, you will send transcripts from every college attended. In my case, they would see that I attended four schools with their respective GPAs. They would have the final GPAs on my Cal transcript (which would be a UC GPA, which includes the grades earned at UCSC in addition to those earned at Cal; a Cal-specific GPA, which includes only those grades I earned at Cal; and quite possibly a major GPA), but they would have to calculate (or have me calculate for them) any other set of combined GPAs they wanted to have, including an "overall GPA."</p>
<p>I'm quite sure your GPA from CCC (or any other school) don't transfer.</p>
<p>I'm quite sure they do. Again, at least for law and business schools, ALL GRADES earned in college are accounted for in some fashion. For law school, you send a transcript from each school you've attended to the LSAC and they come up with your LSAC GPA. </p>
<p>This can be unfortunate for some who may have done the bare minimum at their communtiy college, or fortunate for others who end up getting a taste of reality (and lower grades) at a real university.</p>
<p>If you have a few grades you feel would have a negative impact and enough time has passed, many schools also offer the option of “academic renewal” which essentially discounts any grade below a C. While the classes and grades still show on the transcript, they are annotated to indicate that they should not be counted towards your GPA. This is a good way to indicate on your transcripts that while you may have messed up, you have significantly improved to the point at which the college is willing to reconsider your grade.</p>
<p>The requirements vary, so make sure you check with an advisor before planning o this option.</p>