<p>Hi,</p>
<p>During my first year and a half of community college, I didn't care about school too much. My only concerns were being eligible for the cross country and track and field team, working, and just passing classes with "C's" so I can still live at home.</p>
<p>I got lots of "C's" in classes including General Chemistry, General Biology, Statistics, and a few others. I was never too serious about education but I've been having a sort of "1/4 life crisis" realizing what school and education has to offer.</p>
<p>My question is simply, "can I retake courses at a different community college and give them all I got?" I really think I can do well and I know my first couple years of not trying and taking the easy way out will not help me transfer to a UC for a science major.</p>
<p>Thanks! I'm sure this has been asked before but I couldn't find a concrete answer in previous searches.</p>
<p>No, you cant retake it for credit for the UCs. You will not get unit credit and only the C wilk be factored into your gpa.</p>
<p>If you have any classes where you received a D or F on your transcript then you can take those classes and your first passing grade will be factor in and not the D/F. Unfortunately though once you’ve passed a class you cannot replace that grade and as Shannon said the UC’s will only factor that first passing grade into your GPA. They will NOT average the two attempts nor will they replace the lower grade with the higher grade.</p>
<p>It’s funny how it’s actually better to fail than barely pass.</p>
<p>^not if you plan on grad school.</p>
<p>So if I get straight C’s I’ll get into grad school over someone who failed in the beginning but later made everything up?</p>
<p>^Not necessarily, there are a lot of variables that go in grad school admissions: GRE scores, grad exam scores, letters of rec, interviews, etc. It’s a much more extensive process than applying for undergrad admission to a UC. That withstanding, most grad schools are more critical of retaking courses than the UC’s are for undergrad admission. The UC’s have a policy of academic forgiveness that disregard a non-passing grade or withdrawal if you take the course over again and pass. Most grad schools don’t have that policy in place, even amongst the UCs.</p>
<p>I was talking about straight gpa calculation. The UCs dont factor in Ds or Fs that you’ve retaken or gotten academic renewal for but grad schools almost universally do. Obviously there are other factors. And if you’re applying to any semi competitive schools, then you wont get in with straight Cs or a ton of retaken Fs.</p>
<p>In other words, I’m screwed with those classes?</p>
<p>So grad schools don’t give you any slack if you underachieved in the beginning?</p>
<p>I received a C in a freshman English class I took at a community college when I was 16 and later retook the equivalent of that class at a different community college 5 years later. I had no idea about the policy regarding repeats of C grades at the time, but after talking to a number of counselors at my school and UC transfer representatives, I was told that my GPA / transcripts would take both grades because at the time I took the original class, retaking C grades was not “illegal” or something like that. There is no way to remove the C grades though unless you can provide documented proof that you were disadvantaged in some way, like official documents from a doctor / hospital / court or something.</p>