<p>scenarios (i'm sorry if these are stupid questions, i don't know anything about grad schools)...</p>
<p>1) if you transferred to your university from a community college, will you have to send transcripts from the community college to the grad school you're applying to?</p>
<p>2) if you didn't do too well in your first year (3.1-3.2), will that count horribly against you when applying to grad programs?</p>
<p>3) if you have an A.S. or A.A. degree along with the B.A or B.S., does that give you any kind of advantage?</p>
<p>2) But if you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and really improve that GPA, then you'll likely be okay... Grad programs understand that there's a fair amount of adjustment that students have to undergo as college freshmen. I had something like a 2.89 or so my freshman year and ended up at a top engineering program.</p>
<p>I'm at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the graduate structural engineering program... USN&WR says it's ranked number 1 this year, tied with Berkeley.</p>
<p>I got into Berkeley, too. ;)</p>
<p>Just put in the required work. You'll be fine!</p>
<p>The professor whose lab I work in is on the admissions committee for the department grad programs, and he swears up and down that he doesn't even look at GPA of applicants due to the variability between schools.</p>
<p>Of course, that should be taken with a grain of salt because a) he is slightly prone to sweeping statements and b) I'm sure he'd care about GPA if the GPA were ridiculously low (by which I mean a 1.5 or something, not a 3.5 -- some people around here seem to think that a 3.5 is a terrible GPA, which I find both amusing and depressing). </p>
<p>I guess if you give the faculty other sparkly achievements like research and a stupendous statement of purpose, they will be distracted from any GPA/GRE deficiencies.</p>
<p>"the person who posted above you wasn't helpful at all."</p>
<p>Interesting, considering he answered all your questions. But I suppose if someone tells you something that you don't like to hear they aren't very useful. :rolleyes:</p>
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I'm sure he'd care about GPA if the GPA were ridiculously low (by which I mean a 1.5 or something, not a 3.5
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<p>I don't know that that would really be an issue, because if you have 1.5, you probably won't even be graduating with your bachelor's degree (most schools require that you have a 2.0 in order to graduate), and it's a bit difficult to get into graduate school if you don't have a bachelor's degree.</p>
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i agree. and congrats. where did you end up going? thanks for the support...the person who posted above you wasn't helpful at all.
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<p>You asked the questions, I gave you the answers. What more do you want? Look, the undeniable truth is your low community college grades are going to hurt you. I don't think it does anybody any favors to pretend this isn't true.</p>
<p>I wouldn't think that they would hurt you that much because in CC's you mostly just take distribution reqs (math, science, english, for lang, etc). I've read that grad schools don't just look at the overall GPA but instead the classes and the corresponding grades. A 'B' in intro course wouldn't be great, but could easily be made up with an 'A' in adv course. Like sakky said, low first year grades could hurt you, but with hard work and adjustment, they could overlook it.</p>
<p>I haven't agreed with Sakky on things in the past -- but there's no need for name calling. While I personally don't think that weaker grades in 1st year will hurt terribly (though they wont help), the truth is grad school app results are in my experience very unpredictable and what they regard as important varies immensely from school to school, department to department and year to year.</p>