Not declaring previous community college

Transfer Students
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<p>Do you know what happens if you had a transcript from a different school but you don't declare it when you transfer?
Lets say I just graduated highschool, then I had 1 semester at LA community college, since it was really bad I moved to Cerritos College as a new freshman, and didn't tell them that I studied at cerritos before, and I just gave them my high school transcripts.</p>

<p>Will I get in trouble with that?</p>

<p>And will the UC I will be transferring to know that I had studied at LA community college? </p>

<p>I'm getting hysterical about transferring now....</p>

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<p>If you dont want to transfer your units from LACC to Cerritos then you don’t have to do it. However, when you apply to a 4 year university you have to turn in every single transcript from every school that you’ve attended.</p>

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<p>colleges can check your academic history through the National Clearinghouse. im not sure how common it is for students to be checked through this database</p>

<p>to quote another poster on this site:

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<p>i think you know that this is an unethical thing to do</p>

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<p>If you applied to this new school as a first-year, that was a lie. You should have applied as a transfer. </p>

<p>Perfect^ pretty much summed it up.</p>

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<p>What if I came from a foreign school? Will the national clearhousing know about that?</p>

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<p>Many CCs in California don’t require prior transcripts of any kind (other CCs or 4year colleges). This is not a problem.</p>

<p>However, almost every 4year college does require all prior transcripts. Simply send all of them when you apply for transfer. It may pull down your GPA, but colleges see this all of the time. You will do well at colleges that do “holistic” reviews and take your entire academic journey (and LORs and your essays and ECs) into account. UCs are only slightly holistic. The CSUs are entirely gpa numbers only. Privates and OOS publics tend to be more holistic in comparison to the UCs.</p>