<p>I've completed about three semesters in a community college.</p>
<p>The first semester, I took it very lightly and dropped out of all classes, two of the professors didn't drop me, so I got F's in those.</p>
<p>The next semester, I did OK, and maintained a 3.0 GPA for that semester in three classes (none of them were repeats of the F's)</p>
<p>Then it was summer school, and I "dropped" both classes but didnt "drop" so received two F's.</p>
<p>Now in the semester I just finished, I finally got serious and got my act together, and I REPEATED all four "F" courses and got A's in all of them.</p>
<p>So now I have a GPA of about 3.2 (with repeated classes) and I am serious in school now and I plan on continuing to get straight A's with occasional B's. I want my GPA to end up somewhere around 3.6-3.7</p>
<p>So my question is, will universities look at my old grades of the repeated courses? Has the damage already been done? No hope?</p>
<p>I am a Econ (or Business Administration, depends) major and I want to apply to such universities as UCLA, UCI, UCR, CSULB, LMU, etc.</p>
<p>I know its a long read, but I need help.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance and thanks for reading! :-)</p>
<p>You certainly still have a chance. I would say not to plan on "straight As and occasionally Bs" but on STRAIGHT As PERIOD. Obviously you can do it if you repeated classes you received Fs in and got all As. </p>
<p>You can take as many credits as you want before transferring to a UC so I would say take a bunch of credits and get As and then you'll raise your GPA.</p>
<p>Firstly, four Fs and a 3.2 gpa doesn't seem right, unless your four A grades replaced them all.</p>
<p>A lot of damage has already been done but I think if you improve your grades and do so consistently, you might have a chance at some schools. But just one more semester won't do it; you'll need two or three semesters with "full-loads" to show that you are really serious.</p>
<p>Yes, the four A's did replace the 4 F's, tahts why my GPA is up.</p>
<p>My counseler told me that when classes are repeated, USC uses the average of both grades, so between an F and a C, that would be a C. So thats why I've completely removed USC form my list. UC schools only count the new grade towards GPA, but does anyone know if they take a look at the previous grades, even after I've retaken them?</p>
<p>And yes, I plan on getting more semesters in than just 1, but what I was trying to say is that I only have one semester to go before I have to apply (you're supposed to apply in Novemeber for the following fall o6 semester, right?)</p>
<p>UCLA is my DREAM school, can anyone tell me what a good healthy GPA should be?</p>
<p>No limit on units? So I can take more than 60?</p>
<p>The average gpa of transfer students accepted to UCLA is 3.5. It also varies based on the major. Go to UCLAs website, click on prospective students, then on undergrad, then on tranfer info. </p>
<p>What major are you interested in at UCLA?</p>
<p>Yes, there are no limits on units for California Community College students. </p>
<p>If you are planning on fall 06 then the last semester that will count before application is obviously this summer and your fall 05 grades will count (you update it), but there's a chance you will be cutoff early. </p>
<p>You self report your entire record and the schools will see the Fs, Ws, whatever. They appreciate upward grade trends though and if you touch on your progress in your personal statement it could work out well.</p>
<p>There arent any limits, technically, but it would be kind of dicey to count on being able to take as many units as you want. I would definitely talk to a counselor at a UC school about this. I know they frown on taking too many units, even if they cant just automatically deny admission to you.</p>
<p>Actually...UCLA is out, see the stats of those Rejected this year and you will see that a lot of Biz Econ/Econ rejects have well over a 3.85, some with TAP completion and extensive EC's. Unless you have extenuating circumstances like....getting over cancer, or a parent dying to which you can justify your earlier poor performance and hence a "low" GPA, then...I'd look for another school.</p>
<p>3.5 is not accurate actually........not for a major that is extremely impacted as Econ. If you don't believe me, like I said.......this year in April especially, you would not believe the impeccable and impressive stats of some of the students on here who were rejected from several impacted majors.</p>
<p>Wow.....yes, there are limits. lol It depends on how you look at it. For instance, there are many schools such as UCSB and UCB for instance which stress that you mustn't get over 80 and that anything over 80 is an automatic disqualification. You have to look at each prospective school's policies.</p>
<p>The ambiguity to the units issue is because of the confusion over university credits versus ca community college credits. FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE ONLY ENROLLED IN CA COMMUNITY COLLEGES THERE IS NO LIMIT. There was a person earlier on this board who spoke of getting accepted to berkeley, ucla and others with I think 138 units completed. </p>
<p>They discourage taking more units than 70 because only 70 units can actually transfer for graduation credit, the rest are good for subject credit. They don't want students to waste money and they don't want the state to have to waste money. FIGURES HAVE SHOWN that an average credit amount at transfer (for ca community college students to UC) is 90 UNITS.</p>
<p>As I mentioned the GPA DOES depend on the major: </p>
<p>I am also however taking my statements directly off of Cal's FAQ's for transfers and UCSB's as well. I'm just saying that as far as the UC's are concerned, some are much pickier than others and if those particular universities interest you than you should take that into consideration and not completely disqualify yourself altogether because you chose to take more classes than you intended.</p>
<p>Personally, I will have around 78 units, since I decided to do the lower div for both English and History to get those out of the way for UCLA, and also to get three AA's, which I thought would be nice to have.</p>
<p>Gabe, brings up a great site. It helps to get a good idea of what is out there in the way of GPA. However, if he wanted to get away from individual samples altogether, he.....wouldn't be on this site. Yes, most of this is anecdotal. Who said it wasn't? lol If I had a nickel for every thread that asked for everyone's "stats", especially in April for those accepted/rejected......</p>
<p>I'd suggest looking at the old threads on Rejects and Admits nonetheless. It's entertaining if anything....</p>