<p>They talk about a "permanent college transcript," and I was wondering what that means. Do my dual-enrollment grades factor into my college GPA even if I don't try to transfer the credits? Even if I retake a class because it won't transfer?</p>
<p>Not generally for your undergraduate college purposes, unless you attend the same college that does the dual enrollment courses with your high school, or there is some sort of grade transfer arrangement between the colleges. In most cases, transferred credits just become credit units and/or subject credit; their grades do not factor in the GPA calculated by the receiving college.</p>
<p>However, medical and law schools will include all college courses and grades in calculating GPA for applying to them.</p>
<p>For the rest of your life, whenever you apply for admission to a degree program at an accredited college or university in the US, or for a job where all of your academics are required as part of the application, you will need to provide official copies of the transcripts from the colleges/universities where you took those dual-enrollment courses. So don’t lose the contact information.</p>
<p>You don’t get to choose which credits to transfer or not. The college/university that admits you decides that. If you think some credits should have transferred but didn’t, you can petition to have those credits reconsidered. Also, if multiple courses are eligible for transfer but your are limited to a certain number of transfer credits, you can request that course A be used for transfer credit instead of course B.</p>
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<p>In this case, some schools may just give you subject credit for both A and B, even though the total credit units may not reflect all of the courses transferred. Subject credit means that specific course requirements (English composition, math, specific courses for your major, etc.) are counted as being fulfilled as applicable by transferred courses A and B, even if you do not get credit units for (all of) the transferred courses.</p>
<p>True. If not all of your credits transfer as what you thought they would, ask about it.</p>
<p>So a bad grade in a dual-enrollment class has the same repercussions as a bad grade after I get out of high school? If I retook the course in “real college” and got a better grade, would the bad grade still look just as bad?</p>
<p>(This is all theoretical, at least right now.)</p>
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<p>Yes. Except you might need to rethink your idea of a “bad grade” when comparing HS to college.</p>
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<p>A dual enrollment course is offered by a “real college”… :roll eyes:</p>
<p>btw: some colleges allow grade replacement for bad grades (protecting the transcript). But that only works at the same college in which you earn the ‘bad grade’ in the first place. Your ‘real college’ will not allow grade replacement from another college.</p>
<p>If you take Calculus 1 at Local CC while in high school and got a C, and later matriculate to University of Somewhere that accepts the Local CC course for subject credit, then it is likely that University of Somewhere will simply consider that as a pass, with no GPA implications at University of Somewhere (but check University of Somewhere’s actual policies).</p>
<p>Repeating courses passed elsewhere may be subject to a more lenient policy. So University of Somewhere may not care if you retake Calculus 1 there, although your transferred credit may be deleted if you do (of course, check University of Somewhere’s actual policies).</p>
<p>But if you later apply to medical or law school, the C grade you got in Calculus 1 at Local CC will be included in your medical or law school application GPA, whether or not you retake the course at University of Somewhere.</p>
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<p>Can anyone elaborate on this?</p>
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<p>In a lot of high schools, “A” is for “attendance.” When students take their first college class, many think their life is suddenly over because they have a B in calculus.</p>
<p>Do college transcripts generally include percentages, or just letter grades? (I’ve never seen my transcript, but when I looked up my midterm grades online they were just letters.)
How do grad schools deal with different grading scales (like the fact that some colleges have plus/minus grading scales and some don’t)?</p>
<p>What kind of percentages are you talking about? Letter grades are the norm. What do you mean how do they deal? They just take what is given, but they look at your transcripts, and they look at your major classes more. The reputation of your college department will influence how they view the strength of your application somewhat. But there are other factors in decisions.</p>
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<p>PhD program admissions tend to be holistic.</p>
<p>Medical and law school admissions have their own standardized methods of calculating undergraduate GPA for their purposes.</p>
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