<p>Hi guysssss
i have a question about the last semester gpa.
im an international student, and my major is economics.
im having 4.0 with 63 transferable units so far, but by this winter session, im sure i will get a B and an A.</p>
<p>im taking 5 units of calculcus2 which is a required course for econ major, but im having a low B and it's impossible for me to get an A. (im having a hard time understanding all the concepts.......whoo...)</p>
<p>i thought it would be better to take calculus 2 early, so i chose to take it in winter.
calculus 2 is the last course i have to take for econ major.</p>
<p>and, in spring i will be leaving to my country since i only enrolled 6 units which are on-line classes. </p>
<p>i was wondering if it's okay to get a B in calculus 2 even though it's one of major requirements.</p>
<p>i think i heard that last semester gpa should be average C.
but not sure if applies to major requirements or not.</p>
<p>:(
im so depressed.........
since im an international student and econ major, i feel like i have to do all the work perfectly.</p>
<p>At this point the grades your admission is based on are in, so it doesn't really matter what you get now as long as you pass all of your classes. One B, even in a prereq, is definitely not going to affect your admission.</p>
<p>chibi_loopi, that's actually a bit of misinformation. Your GPA resets once you get into a UC so his B does not matter once he gets accepted. Grad schools will only look at your UC GPA. sstory is right about Winter Session grades not being reviewed in the admission process. They only expect to pass those classes, B's in prereqs won't kill you.</p>
<p>Uhh, no... UCD Admissions has noted this on a thread before. It depends on what graduate school you apply to, but most of them look at every GPA. meaning, yes - your GPA resets once you get into a UC, but your community college GPA still stays. I know when my older brother applied to law school, he had to note his community college GPA and his UCLA gpa. Same with my other brother. He had to report his cc GPA even though he went to CC for 3 classes during the summer.</p>
<p>If you think your community college gpa just disappears when you apply to grad school then you're wrong. Even the classes you took at a CC in highschool will haunt you when it comes time for the LSDAS to compute your gpa. To say that your CCC grades won't affect your grades when applying to med and law school would be absurd considering roughly half of your grade points are from there.</p>
<p>higher the better since you're an econ major and entering the job market during a recession.... keep your grades as high as possible because its already a competitive job market.</p>
<p>@ jetforce: Yes that's true, but those schools are basically the two exceptions as they're professional schools that have nothing to do with your undergrad major. For anyone going on to get a masters in * their respective major* your lower-div coursework doesn't really count much. Nobody is saying it just disappears. I'm just saying they will mainly look at your upper-div work that is typically major-specific.</p>
<p>sstory, that doesn't make sense. think of it this way : </p>
<p>why would 2 out of 4 years of your undergraduate grade not hold any weight? if that were the case, it would be unfair to people who go into 4 year institutions right out of high school. their gpa composes of 4 years while your gpa from a UC would only compose of 2 years. there is no distinctive gpa for upper-division courses after 4 years because it is just encompassed in your undergraduate gpa. </p>
<p>but also you have to note that a small percentage of your lower-division courses consist of your major prereqs which i am sure are just as important if you were to go to graduate school for your respective major. </p>
<p>regardless, there are exams like the LSAT or MCAT that we have to do in order to get into graduate school so im sure they use that to determine who is more qualified as opposed to just GPA alone.</p>
<p>You misunderstood what I was saying, this is not unique to cc students that had their first two years at cc. This is for everyone that goes on to get a masters in their respective major, they really only care about your upper-div work. Take UCLA for example because I know you love it so much:</p>
<p>"A scholastic average of B (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) or better is required—or its equivalent if the letter grade system is not used—for the last 60 semester units or last 90 quarter units of undergraduate study and in any post-baccalaureate study."</p>
<p>I think in the end, we are both right - it just depends on what school you intend on applying to since all of them have different standards. Let's look at UC Berkeley, since I know you want to go there so much.</p>
<p>"I am assuming that you are applying to graduate school? Most schools require that you submit official transcripts of all college-level work including transcripts from every post secondary school that you have attended, including community colleges, summer sessions, and extension programs. Yes, you should include your community college grades in your overall GPA calculation. Some schools place considerable weight on grades in the intended field of study or in related fields instead of the overall grades. If your grades in the intended field of study were much better than the overall grades, the grad school might well tend to overlook the total overall grades. Remember that you will be submitting transcripts of all college-level work, and each graduate school may differ on how they view grades." </p>
<p>So yes- you are right, they do outweigh your overall GPA with your intended study weight if it's much higher. But again, other graduate schools might differ... which is what I'm arguing since I intend to attend a private school / out-of-state school for graduate school and they factor in community college GPAs.</p>
<p>Hopefully they won't consider winter grade.
Since you are an intl student, you may have to have a 4.0 for Berkeley econ. cuz others all have 4.0</p>