<p>I'm about to transfer as a Sophomore, and I was just wondering - how do employers/grad schools evaluate your GPA?</p>
<p>I've heard people say "Your gpa starts over" when you transfer or that "You start fresh" or something to that effect. </p>
<p>How is your GPA evaluated by employers or grad schools when you transfer? Is it just your "restarted" GPA at your new school? Or is your GPA from your first institution taken into consideration? </p>
<p>And if it is taken into consideration, is it evaluated just as if it was another year? or is it given less weight than say, a year at the school you graduated from?</p>
<p>It "re-starts" at some schools, yes.
Which may suck for me, lol.</p>
<p>I think it works that way with most UC's.</p>
<p>Sorry, to clarify I meant if my GPA does "restart", how do employers and grad schools evaluate it? Just the restarted GPA? or do they take the GPA that I received at my first school into consideration?</p>
<p>It's done cumulatively. You have the option to also note a GPA from a Community College vs your transferred university or the undergrad vs grad GPA's on your resume.</p>
<p>Kash_Money,</p>
<p>It depends on your employer/grad school. What schools mean by "restarting" is only that you have a clean slate with regards to honors/academic standards/etc. requirements at your new school. It does not mean that your cumulative undergrad GPA resets. Your cumulative undergrad GPA is something entirely different from your school GPA, and obviously encompasses all of the undergraduate work you've done.</p>
<p>The law school application, for instance, requires your cumulative undergrad GPA. Most academic grad school applications only care about your in-major GPA, or your in-major upper division GPA. Your employer may be interested in any of these.</p>
<p>Essentially, no school has the power to reset your GPA except with regards to their own standards. Employers and grad schools have their own standards which may or may not exclusively include work that you do at the school you graduated from.</p>
<p>At least as it applies to law school, the LSDAS data for law schools will include all letter grades earned at any institutions.</p>
<p>does anyone know if you are required to put past schools(i.e. school you transferred from) on job/grad school app's?</p>
<p>on the LSDAS, does it denote to admit comittees where the letter grades came from, or is it just listed as coming from the second school?</p>
<p>Law/Med Schools require that you submit your transcripts from every post high school you have attended. Thus they look at everything. How they interpret that information I suspect may vary from school to school. for example; a medical school might look at your GPA from your current school, then your required courses overall GPA, then perhaps the cumulative GPA.
If your question is can you decide subjectively to not submit something because it might adversely effect your outcome, I would think twice about that if I were you. With so much in electronic form these days it is just a matter of time before all is totally linked together in the academic world.</p>