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<li><p>Is it true that if I have bad grades in high school, I can go to community college for 2 years and then when I go to apply to a college like Berkley they won't see my high school grades?</p></li>
<li><p>Can I skip senior year and go straight to community college? Do I need a GED? Does age matter?</p></li>
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<p>To be more specific I'm looking at College of San Mateo.</p>
<p>I suppose it did not occur to you to look at the admissions website at the College of San Mateo?</p>
<p>But I didn’t know where to look. I’ll try again.</p>
<p>If you spend two years at a community college, the school you transfer to will most likely ask for high school transcripts to verify you graduated, but they won’t be taken into account. I don’t know about your second question, but don’t get a GED. They are not treated the same as a diploma, because they aren’t.</p>
<p>California publics do not appear to care about high school records for junior-level transfers (they do for sophomore-level transfers, but many of them do not take sophomore-level transfers anyway), but many other schools do care about high school records even for junior-level transfers. High school records may still be relevant for California publics if you use high school course work to satisfy requirements that can be satisfied with high school course work.</p>
<p>Check the admission web sites of your target schools. For California publics, look here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/requirements/minimum-requirements/index.html[/url]”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/requirements/minimum-requirements/index.html</a>
<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU;
<p>For transfer to a California public, you need to take the courses listed for your major and target school on [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) .</p>
<p>If you go to a Calif. CC, work with the school to earn your IGETC which guarantees that you will have the correct classes to transfer. It is not a guarantee that a UC will accept you, but at least you will know you are taking the right classes to transfer as a junior. Also, if you have not done well in high school, be sure to sit back and figure out why you have not done well. A student who has, say, a C average in high school is most likely not going to suddenly start getting mostly A’s and a few B’s at a CC, which is what you would need for Berkeley.</p>
<p>IGETC is for coverage of general education or breadth requirements, so you do not have to try to figure out the coverage of those requirements at every UC and CSU. But you still need to take the lower division courses for your major at your target UCs and CSUs.</p>