<p>I am an international student. I am taking a summer course in UCB right now, which is a spanish intermediate class but it is very intensive, so I expect the best grade I can get is B (I have already set my transcript as letter grade rather than pass and fail and I think it has been too late to change it )In my original school, I have GPA at around 3.85 in my first year and I plan to transfer in my sophomore fall semester.
I am thinking if it will influence my result of my transfer??
Any suggestion will help hugely! Thank you!!</p>
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<p>Every grade you received will influence your transfer admission process, whether positive or negative.</p>
<p>so even though my major is not spanish, a B will influence my application result negatively?</p>
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<p>A ‘B’ isn’t horrible, but it doesn’t really do you any favors. All transferable grades, whether in your major or not, affect the admissions decisions.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say a B is going to “negatively influence” your application. It’s not as good as an A, but it’s important to realize that the extremely vast majority of college students are not 4.00 students. A 3.85 GPA is a very good GPA. Don’t worry so much.</p>
<p>It is not counted in my GPA,so I wonder if the grade of summer school will be as important as my GPA in my own school, since i want to transfer to top 20 school so this is very important to me. thank you very much!</p>
<p>If it’s a college level course, it is indeed part of your GPA. Any college course counts, unless it’s a specifically “non-credit” course, which is rare for an enrolled undergraduate student. </p>
<p>Even if it’s at a different school, it’s still part of your cumulative college record. When you go to transfer, you’ll have transcripts from both of the schools to send to your transfer institution(s).</p>
<p>Summer courses carry the same weight as courses during the regular semesters. </p>
<p>So do you think if I should drop this class? I am still taking it and still able to drop it right now.</p>
<p>I don’t think so. A B isn’t going to kill you. Having an incomplete on your transcript is going to look just as bad, if not worse. Either way I don’t a B is going to compromise your chances of getting into many schools, as long as you’re doing well in everything else. </p>
<p>oh.Thank you! But actually if I drop this class, my school won’t receive any transcript of the summer course, which means the schools I apply for won’t know anything about it. Besides, my 3.88 GPA doesn’t count the grade of this class.(I have a B and all others are A in my own school) So, in this case, what do you suggest?</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that you won’t have to include this as part of your cumulative college transcript. You may want to double check that policy. According to everything I have ever heard or been told…-every- college course you take, regardless of your grade or status as complete or incomplete, is included in your cumulative transcript. Even if your current school doesn’t receive a grade to factor into your GPA, it is still part of your college record. </p>
<p>When you apply for transfer, you have to send them all of the information on every college course you have ever taken. </p>
<p>I know people who started college 15 years ago and failed all of their classes, then returned within the last couple of years and had to face the fact that they had college records from years ago that amounted to something like a .6 GPA. Those records don’t go away. If you’ve taken a college level course for college credit, it is part of your college record. </p>
<p>I double checked and my school doesn’t include it in my cumulative transcript. So…as you say, my original GPA is 3.88 and now count a B in (this class is 10-unit class!!!) I can’t believe it…I might probably drop this 5000-dollar class (((((((((((( </p>
<p>Are you sure? They might have said that they wouldn’t include it in your transcript or GPA for classes take at your school, but that’s entirely different. If you start at one school and finish at a second, your working GPA at the second school often doesn’t include the GPA from the first school. But the cumulative GPA includes grades from every school you’ve attended. </p>
<p>I just find this really hard to believe.</p>
<p>If this was actually a $5000 class, keep in mind that you’re basically flushing that money down the toilet by dropping it. </p>
<p>Yes, I know. That’s why I am so struggling with whether I should drop it. So if that grade would be counted in my cumulative grade, should I recalculate it according to the credit of it? That’s to say, the credit of this class is 10 units (which is equivalent of 2.5 unit in my school), so does it weight more than 1-credit class?
Thank you so much for your patience and suggestion.</p>
<p>Yes, a 10 credit class would factor more heavily into your GPA than a 1 credit class. </p>
<p>Thank you very much…even though I still don’t know what to do…</p>
<p>Sorrrry, Confortablycurt, one more question!! The admissions of schools I applied for said they won’t recalculate GPA but they will consider all transcripts that they received. Then do you think a spanish (a language class that is not my major) will influence largely my chance?? Thank you so much.</p>
<p>Never mind…I dropped it. sigh</p>