What the hell? Am I understanding this correctly?

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<p>I was reading assist.org for UCR. For bio majors it says you must have at least a 2.7 in all transferable coursework. <strong><em>??? Since when does this *</em></strong>ing school have such high standards? You get one C+ and all of a sudden you're automatically rejected?</p>

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<p>That’s the average GPA for all transferable classes combined.</p>

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<p>How do you get a C+ at a CC? </p>

<p>And wwlink is right, it’s a 2.7 cumulative GPA, which is super low.</p>

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<p>^it’s possible if we’re talking about hardcore science classes.</p>

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<p>No no, I mean literally how can you get a C+? I’ve never seen a CC that did anything beside straight grading (A, B, C, D, F)</p>

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<p>Maintaining a B average at community college is not asking a lot, damnit.</p>

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<p>If you had a 3.0 GPA over 60 units and got a C in a chem class (5 units at my CC), you’d walk away with a 2.92 GPA. </p>

<p>Do that again, and you’d have a 2.85 GPA. ;)</p>

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<p>why stereotype UCR? There is nothing wrong with UCR. If I could get a guarantee to the UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences, I would go in a heartbeat.</p>

<p>UCR isn’t that bad of a school. If you want to talk bad about a school, talk about UCM.</p>

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<p>UCR stereotypes are there for a reason. Ranked against the rest of the country’s universities, it’s really not bad. Compared to the UCs, it’s either at the bottom or fighting Merced for cellar supremacy. </p>

<p>They graduate something like 68% of their students, which is the worst of all the UCs, it’s in Riverside (which I lived in for a while, and can attest to its crappiness), they accept damn near everyone who applies AND they send out admissions decisions a few months before everyone else does in hopes of wooing you in.</p>

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<p>The way they made it sound was that you couldn’t get anything lower than a B- in any given class. And no just because it’s CC doesn’t mean it’s easy, O-Chem and Physics is hard no matter where you go.</p>

<p>And I wasn’t trying to bash UCR, I was just amazed that they would have this requirement (well I thought it was at the time).</p>