UC transfers n GRAD SCHOOL

Transfer Students
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<p>will grad schools look down upon the fact that you guys transfered to a UC from a community college?</p>

<p>and also, which gpa will they consider? the CC or UC one?</p>

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<p>grad schools look at all gpas. i think they calculate all of your grades into one gigantic gpa.</p>

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<p>oh i see. thanks.</p>

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<p>Depends on the Grad school. Some grad schools will not accept community college credit.</p>

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<p>Unless they're elitist pricks, typically no. JC to UC is so common these days that they're accustomed to seeing it. Grad/prof. schools are mostly concerned with how well you did at your "degree granting institution." So it follows, don't get straight "A's" in JC then get worked once you're at UC--it'll look really bad.</p>

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<p>I'm not going to risk it so I'm going to maintain a high CC GPA. Once I go to UCI in the fall, I'll be taking a bunch of non-UC transferable online courses from my current CC just to bump my GPA even higher.</p>

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<p>That's why I was led to believe that they would only count classes that transfer--the idea of them counting a Microsoft Word class the same as a UC course in your cumulative gpa is weak.</p>

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<p>Hahaha gabe, point taken. But then again, many of the non-UC transferable courses are transferable to CSUs and many other universities.</p>

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<p>Well hopefully they put much more weight on real classes.</p>

<p>I'm thinking of taking a ton of comm college classes in the summer as opposed to being concurrently enrolled.</p>

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<p>FYI Law Schools give you a 4.33 for A+ , but an F for a grade of No Pass, and they do not include crades of Pass/credit in the calculation.</p>

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<p>This is a pretty interesting article and clears up all myths in general:</p>

<p><a href="http://provost.ucsd.edu/roosevelt/academics/gradGPA.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://provost.ucsd.edu/roosevelt/academics/gradGPA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>"A+ grades do not count for more than 4.0 in GPA calculations for medical and law school applications."</p>

<p>Wrong. A+=4.33. It's in the official LSAC materials. I'm not sure how much we can trust that document considering its patent error there.</p>

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<p>really??? datz awesome....i have like lot of A+'s in my transcripts...swweeettt....</p>

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<p>Nice info, pepsicokevodka.</p>

<p>About repeating courses though...How would grades be averaged if a course was repeated as P to replace an F? I'm not too worried about this since I'm not going to med or law school...But it'd be nice to know.</p>