<p>He spend a lot of time getting horrible grades. Truly horrible grades. He's been out of college for a year and a half and he wants to enroll again.</p>
<p>This is where the big problem lies, he's trying to register for classes at his local community college and retake some of the classes he failed but we don't know if it will fix his GPA since he is starting at a different university, and the old transcript will still show his bad grades.</p>
<p>I guess this is my main question, I hope someone can answer:</p>
<p>Will the final university he gets his bachelors (if he ever does) ignore An F on one transcipt if he gets an A in the same class at a different school?</p>
<p>His GPA is a 2.2....so it's not completely hopeless...he does have some good grades, it's just the bad ones are really bad and he's not at that school anymore to retake the, but he can retake them at a different college, but will that change his GPA?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about the transcript as much as I would worry about the reasons that he did not do well in college the first time. I think that he will be able to be admitted to a university if he is able to do well the second time he enrolls. I think the key for him will be identifying what went wrong the first time and making sure that he has a plan to correct it.</p>
<p>As far as whether it will fix his GPA at the current school you should ask someone there.</p>
<p>The GPA does not transfer from one institution to another; only the credits transfer. Generally, courses in which a student has a grade lower than a C are not transferable anyway and the student will receive no credit for them at the next institution. </p>
<p>The only effect that the low grades might have is to make his application less attractive to any other colleges he is applying to as a transfer student. Once he has been accepted at the new institution, however, he starts afresh with a GPA of 0.00 (a blank slate).</p>
<p>Colleges understand that some don’t do well the first time around. Adcoms are not computers who take a bunch of inputs, and spit out admissions decisions. If he does well at CC, he will be able to transfer somewhere. Grades from several years before his transfer will count for almost nothing.</p>
<p>While that’s true regarding the cumulative GPA of your new university, it does not wipe out the failing/mediocre grades from previous institutions as far as some employers and grad schools are concerned. </p>
<p>Most…especially the latter will request transcripts of all undergrad courses taken/attempted and in the case of some grad schools like law…will factor them all into the overall GPA calculation up to the first bachelor’s degree attained. Moreover, in the case of law schools, they will count the failing grade alongside the passed retake grade and average them both for cumulative GPA calculations. </p>
<p>Several friends who applied to law schools ended up getting burned on the GPA front and ended up having LSDAS* GPA far lower than they’d thought due to dual-enrollment community college courses taken in high school, repeating a failed course, and/or courses taken at other/previous colleges. </p>
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<li>Mandated third party clearing house for law school application process information…including the processing of all undergrad transcripts up to first bachelor’s attained. The cumulative GPA calculated by LSDAS is what law schools will count when deciding on a candidate’s admissions.</li>
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<p>^ Actually, at the 23 campuses of the California State University they really do let the computer decide. Grades and test scores are fed into the computer that has been programmed for certain admission parameters and then generates an acceptance or rejection notice and sends it out.</p>
<p>Assuming that you have completed the specified general education and major preparation requirements, if your previous college GPA exceeds a GPA threshold for your major (determined by how popular the major is relative to the space available), you are admitted. Applicants from local colleges who do not meet this GPA requirement but do meet the minimum CSU standards (2.0 GPA for state residents, 2.4 GPA for non-residents) are admitted as undeclared (and have to apply to declare a major after matriculating); others are rejected.</p>
<p>It is not entirely clear how GPA is calculated for transfer applicants when there are repeated courses:
[CSUMentor</a> - Plan for College - Transfer Students - Upper-Division Grade Requirements](<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU)</p>