<p>I went to school first to community college and then to university
I didn't really try in community college and had a sub 3 gpa, but really studied when I transferred to university and will end with a institution gpa of 3.9 </p>
<p>When you apply to gradschool do they care about your first years?</p>
<p>yes 10char</p>
<p>They will see all your GPAs; however engineering schools more heavily weight your more recent years.</p>
<p>How much a low CC GPA will hurt depends on where you are applying. A school that has a ton of applicants (e.g. a top PhD program) have the ability to reject people for any minor issue. A school with less applicants (most MS programs or lower ranked PhD programs) tend to be a little more fair.</p>
<p>Do grad schools have a tendency to overlook applicants who started at community college?</p>
<p>I don’t think grad schools really care where you start. They mostly seem concerned with a.) your major GPA and b.) your GPA in your junior and senior year, when you should have been taking upper level classes, since those are a better indication of your grad school performance than intro to basketweaving or whatever your first year gen eds were. Oh, they’ll look at your cumulative GPA and your application will never even make it to committee review if it’s below a certain point, but a couple of Cs your freshman year or even a few mediocre early semesters won’t matter much in light of a vastly improved GPA in the relevant stuff.</p>