<p>Hi, quick question about retaking classes you had failed before at a CC.</p>
<p>So the consensus is that when you pass the class, it replaces the F and raises your GPA, but it remains on the transcript.</p>
<p>My question is: how will this affect your transfer to a UC if your GPA is in good standing but the poor history staying on your transcript?</p>
<p>For example, say I failed 5 classes and a couple of W's in my first semester at a CC. Took a year off, came back, re-took them, and passed with all A's. GPA's is in good shape, but obviously the track record stays on the transcript. Will the poor history affect your chances of even being considered for transfer to a UC?</p>
<p>If you have five F’s from your 1st semester but then made them all up, that’s a good sign (many people just quit after something like that happens to them). If you have five F’s over 2-3 semesters, that would be harder to defend. </p>
<p>I have one F from my very 1st semester, which I retook a year later for an A. I hardly even brought it up in my application. I think all I said in the additional comments section was something like, “I received an F in Marine Biology during my first semester of college, but I retook the class and received an A.” Why would they need more info? Your posterior grades do a lot of the speaking for you. Just be sure to mention it in your application.</p>
<p>Of course, I can also think of hypothetical horror stories… I mean if you’re aiming for a 8% admittance major at Berkeley, the last thing they wanna see is that **** happens in your life. They’d prefer a 4.0 from a rich boy who’s going to college b/c his parents say so. Ah well…</p>
<p>The UCs should not hold your track record against you. You also have the option to request “academic renewal” from your CCC, which will replace the Fs with “AR” on the transcript.</p>
<p>I have the exact same question, actually. I failed 3 classes. Retook the first for an A, and I’m retaking the other 2 right now for B’s. Would UC’s still hold that against me or do I still have a chance of getting in somewhere despite retaking the classes?</p>
<p>The UCs are very forgiving about failing grades and withdrawals for CCC students applying for undergraduate transfer. If you have a bad semester you can make it go away through AR as far as the UCs are concerned and there is essentially no penalty for failing or dropping a course as long as you retake it for a satisfactory grade. If you get an F in a course and retake it and get an A, your UC GPA will only count the A.</p>
<p>If your academic ambitions extend beyond a bachelors degree at a UC or CSU than poor grades from any college are often going to be held against you for the rest of your life. Many private universities do not recognize AR and if you apply to medical school and most graduate programs AR will not be recognized and if you fail a course and retake for a passing grade both grades will be counted equally in your GPA. If you are interested, get out a calculator and see how many A grades you need to get in subsequent courses to bring your GPA up to a respectable level after a single F.</p>
<p>Engineering transfer program In Vancouver BC Canada.
I got 4 courses on second semester and failed all of them
do you know if the rules are the same for Canadian students?
I’m going to retake all those failed and will improve them. do I have the chance to transfer to one of the good universities of Canada or I will carie my awful educational history.
is my chances slim or like other transfer applicants?</p>
<p>my last question is very important to me please answer it.</p>
<p>^It depends on the school, the University of California system doesn’t consider failed grades (for GPA) if they have been replaced with a passing grade but not all schools have that policy.</p>
<p>I’m taking classes at a community college and it looks like im going to fail my calculus class. I have straight a’s in my other classes. if i fail this and retake are my chances for medical school gone. This is my first semester in college</p>
<p>@student1757 Welcome! You are new so you don’t know the system and rules that well. Generally people make anew thread instead of dragging up old ones to ask a question. This is because the original posters of the old threads rarely are on CC.</p>
<p>However, I appreciate you bumping it just for the OP’s username XD.</p>
<p>In regards to your calculus dilemma, there are a couple of options. First, utilize every tutoring and office hour opportunity to ask questions and do practice problems. If that doesn’t work, aim for a W-withdraw. W’s don’t affect GPA, but many of them might raise a red flag. Worse case scenario, you get a F, retake for an A, and can write about how the situation challenged you, blah, blah, blah.</p>
ibid on the advice about resurrecting old threads.</p>
<p>But since its here… No, your chances for med school are not gone. The start of college is a learning experience for most kids, the college where you apply to transfer (and, down the road, med school) are going to understand this. Now if you’re still failing classes as a college junior that’s a different story, but lets not let that happen.</p>
<p>Think of this as a valuable opportunity, a chance to figure out where you’re going wrong really early in your college career and to fix it. [ul][<em>]Good students find they spend 6-10 hours per week on each class, especially probable if it is a math/science class. [</em>]Spaced study is better for learning than trying to “cram”. You are much better off studying 90 minutes on each of 5 days then spending the same time on Sunday trying to catch up. [<em>]For many subjects there are workbooks such as the “Calculus Problem Solver”. These are incredible tools and I don’t know why schools don’t pass them out along with the textbook. The chapters have worked problems, hundreds of them. There is no rule that says you can only do the assigned problems from your text. Using these books should be a big part of those hours previously mentioned. [</em>]There are free software tools such as Anki that implement spaced-repetition programs, proven to be the most efficient way to memorize things. [/ul]There are tons of websites you can visit for advice, and your college is likely to have a learning center as well. Two links to get you started are [On</a> Becoming a Math Whiz: My Advice to a New MIT Student](<a href=“http://■■■■■■■.com/3zh9frh]On”>On Becoming a Math Whiz: My Advice to a New MIT Student - Cal Newport) and [How</a> to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses](<a href=“http://■■■■■■■.com/aok5qn]How”>How to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses - Cal Newport) Read thru the story at [Teaching</a> linear algebra](<a href=“http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebra.html]Teaching”>Random Observations: Teaching linear algebra) and see how that prof forced students to rehearse material with great results; the advice earlier focuses on doing that yourself. </p>
<p>The downfall of many students is confusing recognition with recall (won’t be a problem if you follow the advice above). When you do the homework you have the book right there and can thumb back to see how similar problems were solved. After a while the approaches become familiar, and then when you review the book before the test they may seem even more so, but as you’ve discovered once you face a test and can’t refer back you can’t recall what you need. Two academic links discussing this are</p>
