I took a community college class last summer, and I did very badly. My GPA is pretty good, but this community college class could seriously pull that down. Do I have to list it on my common app? I don’t need credit from it, I took it because it sounded like a fun class, but it really wasnt.
yes, you must send all transcripts when applying to colleges generated from colleges or high schools. Failure to do so will get your application rejected or acceptance revoked.
How would they find out that I took the course. I didn’t receive credit, and it was only a summer class. Will it really impact my chances?
There is a national clearinghouse. It has a record of all colleges you have attended and the dates. If you fail to provide a transcript, they can and will find out. It doesn’t matter if it is a summer class or that you didn’t receive credit (I’m assuming you’re talking about high school?), you still took the course and generated a transcript.
Whether colleges seeing the grade will impact your chances or not, I don’t know. But the fact remains that you MUST send the transcript. Failure to do so is submitting a fraudulent application.
Thanks. Another question, will this also apply from UK schools?
And to anyone else who can answer this, will getting a C/D in a community college class significantly impact my college admissions. I have good stats otherwise, I would say that of a typical berkeley/georgia tech admit, but this is the one bad ting on my app.
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What course was it?
Just list it on your app; they’ll be impressed that you were motivated enough to take college classes in high school. If your other grades are good, they’ll compensate for the one C/D. And if it was a C/D in a hard course (like a math/science), it will matter even less, since college students themselves tend to struggle with some courses.
You mentioned Berkeley (but also Georgia Tech). If you happen to be in CA (or even if you plan to apply to Berkeley), then you would need to include all community college courses taken for credit on any UC/CSU applications and would need to send all transcripts after admission to a UC if that is what you decide to attend.
A C is very different from a D in the context of the UC system. Which is it?
Its a C. I also want to get into an even better college like Columbia and CMU, and i was pretty on track before i got this insane teacher. I dont need any credit from the class, it was for fun, i now wish i hadnt taken it at all. Also does anybody know how this will affect overseas applications like to UK and canada, maybe i can get in there then. …
By “fun” do you mean it was a non-transferable vocational/technical course?
No, it was a science class, by fun i mean i thought i would learn stuff, it wasnt fun at all.
List it.
The worst case scenario is that you get rejected from your dream school.
If you don’t list it, however, the worst case scenario is that you have just received your degree at your dream school and the college finds out that you didn’t list the course, causing them to revoke your degree that you busted your butt for four years to earn.
I’ll let you decide which one sounds better.
Thanks everyone…i hope i can still get into cmu berkeley with this i my app. the rest of my app is really good. Hopefully the ad officers don’t care too much about one grade.