<p>I graduated High School this year and I'm planning to study in the US.
Now someone told me that if I study in a community college and then transfer to a 4-year-university I will transfer with ZERO credit. That is, whatever grade I get in my Junior/Senior year will be just that and the grades I got in my Freshman/Sophomore in the community college will have no influence on them. </p>
<p>Is that true?</p>
<p>This is not true, you will transfer with however many credits you took at the community college. They will all count at a 4 year university but only the one’s that apply towards your major will really help all others will be counted as elective credits</p>
<p>As far as credit goes, most credits should transfer.</p>
<p>As far as grading goes, a lot of schools only calculate your GPA at their school with classes taken there, but you will still have the credits.</p>
<p>They may list two GPA’s, your official GPA at that school and your GPA including AP/IB/Transfer classes.</p>
<p>MQ1993,</p>
<p>You should visit the Transfer Forum, and read through the thread titled “Transfer Admissions 101” to get a basic understanding of this topic. Here is the link: [Transfer</a> Students - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/]Transfer”>Transfer Students - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>I think that what this person meant was that some 4-year colleges and universities won’t record the grades from your CC classes on their transcripts, and won’t include those grades in the calculation of your overall GPA. The final transcript from that place will list all of your transferred courses, but it won’t show any grades for them. Instead of a grade, there will be a note indicating that the credit was awarded for a transferred course or an exam - just like the way credit is recorded for an AP, CLEP, or IB exam.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about this. When you apply for a job that asks your overall GPA, you can recalculate it using your CC records, or you can list both GPAs separately on your resume. In the future when/if you apply to grad school, you will need to send copies of both your CC transcript and your 4-year college/university transcript. The grad school will re-calculate your overall GPA using both sets of information.</p>
<p>happymomof1 my father tells me that I SHOULD worry about this since the job will only look at my graduating GPA (being the GPA I obtain in the 4-year-university). I hope this is not true? </p>
<p>I will certainly look at the link you provided happymomof1 - much appreciated.</p>
<p>Different employers ask different things about your GPA. Some will want the CC and 4-year program GPAs separated, others will want them converted to one overall GPA. Some absolutely won’t care at all as long as you have a decent work history related to that professional field.</p>
<p>You also should know that most students do better grade-wise the last two years of college. This is because they are taking classes that are more interesting to them, and because they have learned how to cope with the work-load.</p>
<p>Well that’s something to keep in mind! I’m definitely going to mention that to my father although he was speaking out of his own experience concerning how he did worse the last 2 years. </p>
<p>And this is a little irrelevant but, will my future employers look at me DIFFERENTLY than they would look at a student who did a whole 4 years in, for example University of Texas at Austin (considering that I will spend my first 2 years in a community college THEN transfer to University of Texas at Austin)?</p>
<p>No, employers dont care that you started in CC. In fact, you don’t even have to put it on your resume if you don’t want you can just put where you earned your diploma from.</p>