<p>So, I'm applying to graduate schools and am slightly confused about this. I took a government course at a community college in the summer of my sophomore year. The grade and credit have been transferred to my current college and show up on my transcript as well. </p>
<p>So, when I'm listing the institutions I attended, do I list the community college in there as well? That seems rather absurd since I don't exactly have a degree or a "GPA" so to speak from the CC.Most schools that I contacted said they don't even need a transcript from the CC but a couple of schools gave me really vague answers such as : "Send transcripts from every institution you list on the application." So, do I list the CC or not? </p>
<p>If anyone's been in a similar situation, I'd like to hear what they did.</p>
<p>Yep, if it says “Send transcripts from every institution you list on the application.” and the application says list all institutions you attended, you should send it.</p>
<p>Nuisance indeed. I’ve got a single community college grade from 7 years ago for which they’re charging $10 per transcript (I looked last year. They charged $3). Not fun. On top of that, it’s a C.</p>
<p>Yep, it’s a pain because I attended three schools for my undergraduate degree (community college, state flagship, then graduated from another state flagship) so it cost me a pretty penny to apply… but ya gotta do it.</p>
<p>I took classes at LSU during one summer, and got a 4.0 (3As, research, comp sci., physics). How do I fold these grades/ GPA into my home institution GPA. I am hesitant to re-calculate my GPA this because my official undergrad transcript (showing date degree conferred) has one GPA; and I fear that if I put something not on my official transcript from my home institution, it will be viewed as being dishonesty or falsifying my transcript. This will only lead to my application getting thrown into the trash. How should I proceed?</p>
<p>^On most applications there are spaces to enter multiple academic records and upload a copy of the each final transcript. That’s where you’ll list your home institution and LSU so there’s no confusion.</p>
<p>If the system only has space for one cumulative GPA, I would go ahead and add your 4.0 from LSU into your home GPA (using units to calculate of course), but still uploading all transcripts as I described above. It’s just a self-report GPA that they use for preliminary review. If you get an interview, at that point you can explain why there’s a discrepancy in what you reported. But I highly doubt it’ll even come that; if they are paying close enough attention to realize your self-report GPA and home GPA doesn’t match, they should also be able to catch that you also took classes at an additional school (LSU) - assuming you send them your LSU transcript. You should be okay.</p>
<p>As for them throwing your application in the trash, do they really do that?? I thought they use the self-reported GPA to just determine if they want to interview you, and don’t closely check your official transcripts until they are close to giving you an offer. That’s what I’ve gathered after talking with a few different admins.</p>
<p>Generally they only ask for your GPA from the degree awarding institution. I really don’t think they want people averaging out their GPAs from multiple schools. They’ll have each of those transcripts, and most schools ask for a separate GPA from each institution on their forms anyway.</p>
<p>I looked into this for the opposite reason: was worried the aforementioned C should be included in my overall GPA before realizing that they really only ask on a school-by-school basis. Still, like I said, they’ll have all the transcripts. I know it’s probably tempting in your case, as the average across institutions will give you a nice boost, but just follow the directions on your applications and you should be fine. </p>
<p>If you’re curious more for the sake of your CV, I’m not sure. Like you said, throwing a GPA on there that at first glance looks significantly different from your transcript GPA might not be a good idea. Explicitly stating that this is a GPA from multiple schools sounds like you’re stretching that number as high as you can because, again, they’ll have access to the transcripts themselves.</p>
<p>edit: That’s funny, denizen, as I think I literally said they’ll have your transcripts three times as well. :)</p>
<p>The community college might show up on your current college’s transcript, actually. I also took a summer course at a community college, so on my university’s transcript it indicated where I took it. Then again I went to a state school for undergrad and the grade was transferred over to them automatically, so that might not be your case.</p>
<p>For me, the school I graduated from just puts the # of credits from other schools on the transcript, no details or grades. Even if it had those details, you should send all of your transcripts because things don’t always transfer cleanly or completely.</p>
<p>It apparently depends on the school. I contacted all the schools and about half of them said they only need the transcript from my current school (since it includes the CC grade anyway) and the other half said they want me to send the CC transcript. It’s really great how much grad school admissions vary from school to school…</p>