<p>I am going to transfer, more than likely, to a Community College in the Spring of 2007. There is a long story behind this which I do not want to go into detail about.
I am going to go to this Community College in my city and earn an Associate of Science Degree in Liberal Studies (maybe Professional Studies) and then transfer to a four year school.
This Community College accepts any class taken as long as you earned a grade of C or better and then they use that for your GPA. They have a different set of rules for your transfer credits, but the GPA rule remains the same.
At my one school, I had a 3.7 GPA and at my other school I only had a 3.0 GPA. How do I do the math in order to find out what my GPA will be at this Community College?
I am sorry for not knowing the math for this. But, I would love to know my GPA so I can start working hard at applying for any scholarships for Community College that I can find ASAP.</p>
<p>I thank you all very much:)</p>
<p>Your GPA at the community college will be made up of grade points you earn at the community college, unless they have a printed policy elsewhere.</p>
<p>In my experience, that's generally true: if you go to a new school, you get a new GPA. That's not to say there aren't exceptions (for example, if you attend more than one UC campus, you have a UC GPA that is cumulative of all UC courses as well as a campus GPA) or that those previous GPAs disappear (they don't go anywhere, they're just not calculated into the current GPA).</p>
<p>Now how do you reflect those GPAs to the world at large, on resumes and the like? That's a good question. ^^ Your best bet is to add up credit hours and GPA points like you would if they all came from one place -- which could get extremely complex very quickly, particularly if you have semester and quarter units -- but don't expect that number to actually ever be reflected anywhere except as a self-reported GPA.</p>
<p>My GPA at Community College, according to their Handbook, will be my GPA from where I went to school before. And, then things will be added on to that as I progress in my studies. Now, that is according to their Handbook.</p>
<p>Therefore, how can I figure out my starting GPA? 3.7 at one school 3.0 at another?</p>
<p>It's purely a math thing, then. Your GPA is not important as itself unless you have the exact same number of units at both colleges, in which case you can just average them together.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you need to find grade points: multiply the number of units each class is worth by its grade (4 unit class x 4.0 if you get an A = 16 grade points), then add all the grade points together and divide by the total number of credit units to get your combined GPA. This only works, obviously, if they're all in the same system -- that is, all semester units or all quarter units. If they're not, you first have to convert them all to the same system.</p>