I am currently a senior in high school and I take classes at a community college to satisfy both high school credit as well as get an early start on college GEs. My question is are these college classes’ grades going to be a factor in the GPA I send to graduate schools? Or is it only the grades I get at the 4 year university I am starting next year? Thank you!
@cocoonutty - The community college classes will show up as transfer credits on your college transcript. For graduate school you most likely will have to provide transcripts with grades from all colleges attended, including community colleges.
When you apply to grad school, you will be required to have official copies of all college-level transcripts sent. So yes, you will need to have a transcript sent by your CC.
What the grad program makes of all of your courses and grades will be up to them. So don’t slack off now. 
I did the same thing but didn’t have to send community college transcripts to any graduate school I applied to nor did I get asked to do so. The logic being any CC classes I took already appeared on my undergrad transcript because I had sent my CC transcript to my undergrad school. My undergrad specifically didn’t count the CC classes I took in high school towards my undergraduate GPA even if I used them for GE requirements but that isn’t always the case.
@hisllama - When you apply for admission as a degree candidate at a regionally accredited college or university in the US, or for a job that requires all of your academic transcripts, you are obligated to send official transcripts of all undergraduate work. No matter how old. No matter where you studied. It really is that simple. Nationally accredited institutions may have different policies. Many employers only ask for the transcripts related to the degree(s) directly related to the job applied for. So I can understand that there may be some graduate programs that waive the requirement. However, this would be their individual perogative, and applicants must verify carefully. It should never be assumed that it is OK.
When academic institutions go through the regional re-accreditation process, individual student files get pulled for audit. If the auditors determine that something is missing (like an original transcript for a 30 year old 8 semester hour summer class that appears as transfer credits on a 28 year old undergrad transcript) heads can roll. This is more about the colleges and universities playing nice with each other than it is about us as students. My missing transcript was found by my grad program in a pre-re-accreditation audit that they ran themselves. I ordered it. They got it, then lost it. I ordered it again. They got it, and didn’t lose it. Whew. I didn’t get booted from my grad program. Due to their due dilligence, my U’s recorders office passed re-accreditation review with flying colors. Everyone won.
Graduate schools typically require transcripts from all institutions attended to be sent.