<p>I graduated high school with a horrible gpa 2.5</p>
<p>I'm about to start semester at the local community college in order to bring my gpa up.</p>
<p>My question is when I apply to schools in the winter for fall 2009 will they look at my new gpa even if it was just one semester or will they look at my old gpa?</p>
<p>Just a weird situation trying to get it figure out if taking a semester to start new, show improvement, and earn a new gpa is worth it.</p>
<p>They will look at both. The stronger your community college average is, the better, because it will show that you’re ready to handle college work.</p>
<p>You should go to the Transfer Students forum and read the sticky thread at the top: Transfer Admissions 101.</p>
<p>Applying for a transfer as an entering sop, your HS record and test scores will be much more important than your college record for the reason you stated–when you apply for a transfer in the spring, AOs will only have one sem/qt of grades to evaluate. If you apply to transfer as a jr, they will have 3 sem/qt to look at and will weight your college accomplishments more than what you did in HS.</p>
<p>Don’t worry too much about your high school grades, honestly. Having known people who have gone through this same situation, you should be fine. If your scores at your community college are excellent, admissions people might not care at all. Hopefully they will think that you have matured and are ready for a university-type environment.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, I second the statement made by entomom. I recommend you apply to transfer as a junior.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>One thing you have to understand, I think, is that when you’re going to community college you are not “getting your GPA up.” You are, in a way, starting over with a new opportunity and new grades. If you get a 4.0 in college, it is not going to get calculated with your high school GPA.. they are separate.</p>
<p>You may understand this, but I wasn’t sure.. so I wanted to point it out.</p>