Will my Community College GPA affect my USC GPA?

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<p>I'm a spring admit, so I'm taking classes at a CC right now. Will my CC GPA affect my GPA at USC when I start this spring?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Your GPA will be seperate on your CC and your USC transcripts however all of it still calculates into your cumulative GPA.</p>

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<p>Cumulative GPA as in the one that they look at for me to graduate or the one that’d I’d put on a resume?</p>

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<p>Inquire at the registrar at your new school - it can vary from each college.</p>

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<p>so u know how u got in as a spring admit? did they let u know when u applied for fall or did u just reapply? what did u tell ppl when they asked where ur going after senior year?</p>

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<p>Kulakai’s information is false. As a transfer for myself I can definitively tell you that once you’re admitted to USC and previous grades mean absolutely nothing when calculating your final university GPA (GPA upon graduation). Once you start your first class here at USC you essentially begin a new clean slate. This was especially disappointing for me coming in with a 4.0 GPA.</p>

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<p>^^^ I think it’s not as cut-and-dried as that. Transfer GPA counts toward Latin Honors (summa, magna, and cum laude) IF it lowers your total GPA. Yeah, so bummer on the 4.0 except that hopefully what you learned getting good grades helps with the upper ed classes.</p>

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<p>@Solomonm - By cumulative GPA I meant the combined GPA of all college credits earned at any college. This is the GPA looked at by grad schools (law school/mba admissions etc.) so my bad for not clarifying that.</p>

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<p>Ah, I get where you’re going. It depends on the graduate school as far as what they look at. I know definitively that Law School looks at EVERYTHING including if you took any college courses during high school. As far as less rigid programs, they might only care about your USC University GPA</p>

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<p>Thanks for the posts guys. I’ve had a rough couple of weeks and I feel that my grade in 2 of my classes are going to suffer. I know I can still pass them easily, but I was worried about my USC GPA.</p>

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<p>umm, absolutely not. Just because your STARS report has no GPA, doesn’t mean you’ve started on a clean slate.</p>

<p>As per USC, “Once you are admitted, a transfer GPA will be established for all your transferable course work. This average will be taken into account with your USC GPA to determine your eligibility for graduation with honors.”</p>

<p>Link:
<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0809/USC_TrnsfrBk_08v2.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0809/USC_TrnsfrBk_08v2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>In other words, they will partition your USC and non-USC GPAs to an extent, but both count and there is no clean slate.</p>

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<p>From what I’ve read, it doesn’t help your USC GPA if your transfer GPA was higher but it does hurt if it’s lower.</p>

<p>Here is the link
[urlhttp://<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2004/academic/graduation_requirements_undergrad.html[/url]”>www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2004/academic/graduation_requirements_undergrad.html</a></p>

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<p>Sigh . . . </p>

<p>My USC GPA does not reflect my transfer grades AT ALL. In the sense that if I log onto myusc or oasis and check my GPA my transfer grades are not factored in.</p>

<p>The ONLY time your transfer grades are counted are for final honors upon graduation (summa cum laude etc.)</p>

<p>As far as employers are concerned, they only care about the grades you’ve earned and will most likely NOT care about grades transferred in.</p>

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<p>If I have a current GPA of 3.111, hwat would it take (besides working my tail off) to get a 3.8 gpa before transferring?</p>