<p>Not saying I didn't report all my colleges...Just curious as to how the process works.</p>
<p>More than likely they will not know unless you applied for financial aid. But if they do decide to check there is a national clearing house that has records of your attendance. You can login the site and check yourself. The best bet if you have a poor academic past is to go back and do an academic renewal and continue an upward trend.</p>
<p>[National</a> Student Clearinghouse: Degree verification & enrollment verification](<a href=“http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/]National”>http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/)</p>
<p>Applied for financial aid at your old school or the UC?</p>
<p>Old school</p>
<p>What if you attended a school that isn’t even listed in the Student Clearinghouse?</p>
<p>^^Then they won’t know. Unless you signed up for Financial Aid for that school that is not on the Student Clearinghouse list–then they would know.</p>
<p>Lets say hypothetically, I forgot to drop a class at a CC and got an F. That’s the only class I took there, no credits transferable, and I received no financial aid. Should I even bother reporting this CC to UC’s?</p>
<p>You should report it, unless you want to risk being denied access to the UC system for life.</p>
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<p>That school can be listed later. You never know. Don’t plant a timebomb on yourself.</p>
<p>what if it was an online school such as chamberlin real estate school?</p>
<p>@seanoh, yes you have to report that. In that case, it is a CC. Every unit you have ever taken has to be reported. Even if it isn’t transferable.</p>
<p>they know everything about you.</p>
<p>@seanoh: You should still report it to the schools that you applying for and send in the transcript. Just take responsibility for it on your personal statement and acknowledge that you’ve learned to manage the administrative side of your education better since then. It’s not as big a deal as you might think.</p>
<p>Years ago, I dropped 3 courses from a cc which the admins didn’t complete and I received F’s for all courses. (Note: this was back when dropping meant getting a form signed by the professor and then taking it to the registrar’s office to have THEM actually do the dropping - pre-internet). That was the only semester I attended that cc (for the one week that I was there). I transferred to another cc and was told, since I didn’t complete any units at the first institution, that I didn’t need to give the new cc my transcripts. It wasn’t until I was planning on transferring to a 4-year that I discovered the F’s. I tried to get them removed, but was unsuccessful (as it had been many years since I had received the grades).</p>
<p>On my personal statement I didn’t blame the admins for not following through with the drops. I just took responsibility. I ended up getting into multiple UC’s and a number of privates.</p>
<p>It’s better not to hide anything from the admissions office.</p>
<p>thanks for the help guys. i will report the F to the UCs</p>
<p>You should report it.</p>
<p>UC’s don’t use that clearing house to verify all schools attended when looking through applications. They only use it for others to verify enrollment at UC’s.</p>
<p>I’ve heard UC’s find out if you took out loans from a previous schools. Something about the government requiring a minimum GPA (2.0 I think) in order to take out more loans. Financial aid officers can see if you’ve taken out loans at other schools. They’re required to calculate your GPA based on all schools that you’ve attended. So if a loan pops up for a CC which they do not have transcripts they will contact you and ask why you didn’t report and require the transcripts be sent in.</p>
<p>What if it was a licensed vocational nursing school not listed on that site which I did take a loan for?</p>