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Does community college credit stay with you?

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Epiphany

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I took chem to get my chem credit for high school during the summer at this one community college, 4 years ago. Now I find out I need to have a 3.5 GPA to transfer into Berkeley and I was about to take summer school at the same college where I got that C, but now I have applied to a different community college and intend to enroll there for the next 2 years and later attend CAL as a junior...and the form asked if I had attended any other colleges... I put no. I'm trying to put this C behind me. If that C does somehow find its way back to me, bleh... who woulda known a C in chem taken 4 years ago as a high school freshman could be haunting me. BLEH.

They should be telling high school kids about the adverse effects of taking community college class. GEEZ!
 
Hey, I go to Cal

lol, i got a C in Calc at Comunity college because syringer wouldn't let me borrow his ti-89.

I don't think this helps you at all but yeah.
 
Originally posted by: Gnote
lol, i got a C in Calc at Comunity college because syringer wouldn't let me borrow his ti-89.

I don't think this helps you at all but yeah.
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what did you do, steal his pencil?
 
I'm pretty sure it's going to stick with you. However, if you never attempt to use any credit received at that community college, and if you never report it on any application forms, I'm not sure if your future schools will be able to find out about it.
 
If you have the time and money, cant you retake that class and have your new grade take the place of the old one ? I know we can do that at Arizona State..... but ASU isnt exactly CAL 🙂
 
Were you given the choice on whether or not the class would count? If it counted, then it should've appeared on your high school transcript.
 
I took 2nd year college english as a junior in hs and got a "c". I too am trying to put that behind me. Yes, it sticks with you. As such, I can never take classes in that college district and expect it to transfer.
 
And if they find out that you did in fact attend college but lied about it on your application, you could be seriously screwed. One C should have a neglible effect on your overall GPA.
 
Originally posted by: Shanti
And if they find out that you did in fact attend college but lied about it on your application, you could be seriously screwed. One C should have a neglible effect on your overall GPA.
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How could they ever find that out?
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Shanti
And if they find out that you did in fact attend college but lied about it on your application, you could be seriously screwed. One C should have a neglible effect on your overall GPA.
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How could they ever find that out?
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I don't know if they would. But I wouldn't take the chance just to ignore one C.
He said he's going to spend 2 years at community college anyway.
Which probably means about 24 classes there. One C out of 25 college classes will have very very little effect on his GPA.

I especially wouldn't take the chance if the schools involved are all public. It wouldn't surprise me if they shared attendance information so Cal may see that there is a record of him attending that CC.

If you had 25 four credit classes with all A's, you would have a 4.0 gpa. If you had 24 classes with A's and one class with a C, you would have a 3.96 gpa. So it would be pretty improbable for that C to actually make the difference between being accepted or not.
 
When you transfer credits from a jr college or community college to a bigger university, they usually don't let you keep your old GPA at all. They just look at all the classes you passed, and say "Ok, you have credits for those. Your GPA starts with the first class you take here."
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
When you transfer credits from a jr college or community college to a bigger university, they usually don't let you keep your old GPA at all. They just look at all the classes you passed, and say "Ok, you have credits for those. Your GPA starts with the first class you take here."
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Yes. That's generally true. I think his concern was that the C grade would keep him from being accepted to Cal.
 
Originally posted by: Shanti
Originally posted by: Nebor
When you transfer credits from a jr college or community college to a bigger university, they usually don't let you keep your old GPA at all. They just look at all the classes you passed, and say "Ok, you have credits for those. Your GPA starts with the first class you take here."
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Yes. That's generally true. I think his concern was that the C grade would keep him from being accepted to Cal.
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Ooohhh. No, no way. As long as you do good for the rest of the 2 years, that C won't even matter. But you could almost certainly get away with not telling them you ever went to that school. If it does come up, just tell them it was part of high school for you.
 
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