<p>Hey, does anyone know the effects dropping a class has on your image when applying for jobs and gradschool and all? I'm wondering if I should drop English and take it over in the summer at a cc near my house and transfer it over to the university I'm going to, but I don't know if that is a good idea or if it will have any negative effects on my image. </p>
<p>By the way, because the drop deadline hasn't passed yet, I won't get a W, and we haven't had enough classes to affect my grade much yet. I'm just trying to consider ways to keep my GPA up. Most likely I'll stick it out for the semester though, just wondering what everyone on here thinks.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>edit: If this thread is in the wrong subforum, go ahead and move it to the correct place.</p>
<p>First of all when you take a class at another university, and you transfer it back to your school you only transfer the credit, not the GPA so the grade that you got at the community college does not factor into the GPA at your home school.</p>
<p>Depending on what you decide to go to school for taking a class at a community college instead of your host school may demonstrate your fear of taking academically rigerous courses and could come back to bite you or keep you out of competitive programs.</p>
<p>makes sense, no dropping English then! Thanks sybbie.</p>
<p>At my school, my transfer credits were transferred AS WELL as the grades from each class, which affected my GPA at the new school. So you might want to check with whatever school you're transferring the credit to to see if they take the grades as well.</p>
<p>Well... at my school (and most all of the schools I looked into) didn't transfer grades for the courses I took. I went to college while I was in high school and got quite a few of my core classes out of the way. For the courses I didn't take, I got AP credit so when I came into college I had over 30 credits towards core classes and a few others that didn't count. Good? Yes, but now I have all my core "easy" classes out of the way and no A's or GPA credit. Because I started in harder courses, the 4.0 padding that those core classes are supposed to give in your GPA aren't there. I kind of regret doing it but whatever.</p>