How does a college look at 2 different school GPA's?

Transfer Students
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I am looking to transfers to a new school in Spring but how do schools look at GPA’s from 2 different schools.
My scenario…high honors HS student,accepted to many engineering schools…Attended UMD freshman year and only had about 2.0 GPA because of engineering classes that I failed but all other classes received A’s. Transferred to my CC to figure what major to focus on. Now have 4.0 at current school with interest in Accounting, History, Criminal Justice with possible Law School. My problem is I am not sure how these schools look at me now. Some of the schools that I was accepted to as an engineering major may now look at me differently because of my low GPA at Maryland. Will they consider that those low grades where from my computer programming classes?

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Each place will have its own wayof dealing with your transcripts. Since you aren’t applying as an engineering major, it is most likely that those bad grades won’t be as important as your new good ones related to your new major.

Go sit down with the Transfer Advisor at your CC, and get help with planning your application list.

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So after sitting down with CC who said all schools are different on determining GPA’s and. at one of the colleges I visited they talked about the more classes I take at CC the better it looks for me…So what does that mean? I am going to finish my Associates degree at CC and after recent semester I am still at 4.0. One of the reasons I am asking is that I failed Calculus at UMD twice but at my CC I am doing pretty well so if I go back to Maryland I am hoping it will replace my grade there so it will bring up my GPA but if I go to another school can I just transfer my Calculus grade from my CC so they won’t consider the F’s I received at UMD? Also, because when you fill out your college applications and it asks for your GPA I don’t want it to look as bad and I don’t think is place to explain my case.

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bump

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Check the school policies. Colleges accept credit from other schools, but I don’t think a grade from one college will be replaced by a grade from another.