<p>So I'm a transfer student with a gpa around 3.4 planning to transfer to a UC and i also plan to maybe go into either law or grad school. I've completed requirements to transfer, but then i noticed that a lot of law schools and grad schools like high gpas. I'm contemplating staying another year at my community college just to raise my gpa? Is this a sensible cause, or should i just transfer already. if i do stay the gpa could go up to 3.75. also i plan to do grad school, if i dont get into law school, in maybe a public health field like epidemiology or healh services</p>
<p>i’d just transfer if i were you. grad schools and law schools will look at which institutions you earned your grades at, not just the overall GPA, and they’ll see that your highest grades came from your community college and not the UC school. if you can have a year or two at the UC school and maintain a high GPA there, then that’s definitely preferable.</p>
<p>you may still be able to raise your GPA in the UC classes. transfer now and work hard and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I assume you are a freshman right now? Feel free to stay another year if you want: it will have very little to no effect on your law school application (assuming you maintain/increase your grades).</p>
<p>you have 3.4 right now… meaning you already have a bad base… will be hard to get back to 3.8 ~ 3.9 (esp. when the classes waiting for you are more difficult courses), also the Bs/Cs stay in your transcript forever.</p>
<p>i could potentially raise it to a 3.75? will this matter, or should i just transfer, because i have the units and i could potentially stay another year</p>
<p>i’m just asking if it makes any sense to stay to get a better gpa, because im guessing the UCs will grade harder meaning that my gpa will be slightly lower or maybe the same</p>
<p>It may not be wise to stay if the extra courses you take will not transfer. You might end p having to retake similar courses at a UC. Also, it would look better to have more time spent at the UC than at the community college. The admissions committee may questions courses that come from a CC but not the ones taken from a UC.</p>
<p>beyopi, two things you should think, if you stay for more classes, will those credits be useful to the UC school? if it’s **solely **for GPA boost I dont think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>secondly, everyone could “potentially” get 4.0, it’s just different story to make it happen. I’m not saying it’s impossible to raise it, I speak it from my own experience. Most kids (good kids with solid grades) build up good base like 3.9 before entering junior/senior year when their GPA start to drop. My point is it’s more and more difficult to ace class as you progress.</p>
<p>those credits will transfer. I don’t know what you mean by useful? as in related to my degree, maybe slightly because my major encompasses nearly everything, and yea it might solely be for a gpa boost from a 3.4 to a 3.7.</p>
<p>and i dont know about the difficulty when i transfer but now i can get classes and i could potentially have another decent year at community college or i could transfer.</p>
<p>all im really asking is that would it matter significantly to grad schools or law schools?</p>
<p>the grad and law schools will see that your highest grades came from your community college years and not your UC years. they will scale your grades down, so the boost in your GPA will be negated. stay there if you want to, but you’d be better off going to the UC now and raising your GPA there. it can be done with some hard work.</p>
<p>For grad schools, they also focus more on the last two years of college and your research experiences (as long as you meet the minimum GPA).</p>