Transferring from one Community College to another

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Q#1
So i pretty much bombed my GPA at Community College 1, my question would be, if i start all over again at Community College 2 and take their assessment and complete my two years, can i transfer to a four year college with just those transcripts from Community college 2 and not 1?

Q#2:
If i transfer to community college number 2, can i chose what credits to transfer?

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You don’t have to transfer any of your classes from your previous CC to your new CC, however when you transfer to a 4-year college you will have to disclosed ALL colleges you attended (i.e. both community colleges) and transcripts of grades received. Colleges can check on previous colleges attended through the National Student Clearinghouse http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/ so don’t omit information (they will find out).

Wouldn’t it just be easier to transfer your CC classes over to the new CC, receive whatever credit you have, and retake classes that you failed?

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Although it may be true that they check the Student Clearinghouse, My community college is not in the list of applicable schools. Could this be a loophole? Could it be possible for me to sumbit my unofficial transcripts to CC #2 without showing the classes i did bad in and only transfer the classes i passed with a C or better?

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Your CC will need an official transcript in order to give you credit and it will show all the classes you took. You cant pick and chose which classes to transfer and there is no such thing as an “unofficial transcript” in which you receive credit for classes taken.

What you are trying to do isn’t going to work.

And when you transfer to your 4-year university you must disclosed all colleges attended and submit a a transcript from each college which will list all classes. The 4-year university will be the one checking the clearinghouse.

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If you do substantially better at the new community college, your grades at the first one won’t even matter much to the four-year school because they will see that although you had a rough start, you turned things around. You would not be the only applicant with that kind of history. Just make sure you show a sustained upward trend.