<p>I am just curious, what’s average GPA at community colleges? its inflated?</p>
<p>i am from europe, medical school, i think GPA of my school is something like 2.6, is that very low?</p>
<p>Do you know what US community colleges are? They are 2 year programs, meant to help people eventually transfer to 4 year Bachelor programs. Many people attend to take classes without the intent of a degree. Many people also drop out. It’s vastly different than medical school.</p>
<p>Yes, I Know what they are, but I dont know what’s average GPA there. I was just wanting to get a feeling of how low/high does my GPA of 3.6 sounds comparring to CC’s students.</p>
<p>There’s no use in comparing. Many people who attend CC have barely completed high school, attend classes and then drop out. I once took a class as a pre-requisite for Grad school. Class started with 35. Ended with 7 or 8. Very few people even attain the 2 year certification. Therefore GPA averages are irrelevant when 2/3 of attendees never graduate, don’t you think?</p>
<p>hm yeah but i noticed a pattern among transfer students; many get 3.9 on community college and then transfer to top schools, okay, not top top but again some top…
so is hard to have 3.9 gpa in community college, to formulate my question differently?</p>
<p>is my 3.6 in med school less than 3.9 in cc?</p>
<p>I disagree with T26E4. I had GREAT high school grades (accepted to Univ of FL, FSU, UCF & UNF) but expenses helped make my decision to go to CC and then transfer (it was half the cost, plus I could live at home). I did great in CC, I got a 3.7 and then decided to transfer to UCF (LOVED the campus), where I also did great (graduated with a 3.9). Now I am going to graduate school at NYU on a scholarship. Not everyone at community college goes because they never graduate high school. That statement is very ignorant. Many students choose CC as a lower cost option or an option to raise their grades and get into a better school later.</p>
<p>OP, there is no average GPA for CC though. It all depends what school you want to transfer to. I had a 3.7 and was accepted (again) to all state schools in FL but chose UCF because it offered my major. Anything over 3.2 and you should get into a state school.</p>
<p>hm i dont know how there isnt GPA of CC; if you say you had 3.7 and i see many people say “i had 3.9 gpa at CC” so that was my question, do most people have there 3.9?</p>
<p>it seems pretty unrealistic that SOOOO many people have 3.9 GPA… so it means that it must be easier to get high grades there than at some top school. at least it’s easier than in Europe i guess.</p>
<p>SallyNYU: I don’t mean to have so widely disparaged CC graduates. In fact CCs serve a great purpose and help many, many people attain eventual Bachelors. However I stand by my statement that fully 2/3rds of CC students never transfer to a 4 year pgm, much less get their Bachelors.</p>
<p>OP: most people at CC don’t have 3.9GPA. Like Sally, the ones who are successful probably have solid GPAs. These are the ones who transfer to the types of colleges you may be considering. But these are the best of the best. My earlier statements about CC students as a whole is that they are extremely varied – with many not finding scholarly success.</p>
<p>will anyone answer… is it hard to have 3.9 gpa at CC? by hard i mean, are those the same people who had >> 3.8 GPA in HS or?</p>
<p>example: I had 3.84 in very hard HS; hardest in my country, I have 3.6 (at best) in college. Its veeeeeeeeerry rare thing to have 4.0 or 3.9 on college. 2.6± is average.</p>
<p>@ T26E4,</p>
<p>I would LOVE to know where you get your rediculous statistics… 2/3, really. Not to mention, not all people just go to CC to eventally get their Bachelors. Some people go into a CC for a degree that only requres an AA or AS… such as IT or Nursing. You need to do some research on CC before you knock them down. CC provides eduation to hundreds of thousands of students every year. Not every student is accepted or wants to go to Yale right out of high school.</p>
<p>@ silliness,</p>
<p>I dont think you understand. No, a 3.9 is not average. As I stated above… most students with a GPA over 3.0-3.2 will be able to transfer to a state school. Whatever school you want to transfer too will have the average GPA of a transfer student posted on their website, so do some research.</p>
<p>Sally: I’m not trying to be combative. The 2/3 stat was something that stuck out to me on a newsjournal show. It discussed how many CCs in the country are succeeding or not to meet their educational goals. Given the wide audience that CC serves, I can understand the number. The number was from some CC national association. Did I go back and check its veracity? No. But I’m not just throwing that number out to be needlessly provocative.</p>
<p>The 2/3 stat is probably skewed by people whom you cite: those that only want AA or even like me: someone who needed a class as a pre-req for something eles: I didn’t need a degree/cert from the CC. Again, congrats on your great experience through CCs. And I fully support the laudable place that CCs serve. My true lament is that so many kids graduate from HS and really need remediation and aren’t ready for college level work. Many of these filter through to the CC system it seems.</p>
<p>For those others who are fully prepared to draw from the benefits of CC, bravo. I’m glad my tax dollars contribute to that endeavor.</p>
<p>T26E4 -</p>
<p>Probably not the research you heard about on TV, but certainly worth a read by anyone interested in the state of community colleges: [America’s</a> Best Community Colleges by Kevin Carey | Washington Monthly](<a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/americas_best_community_colleg_1.php]America’s”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/americas_best_community_colleg_1.php)</p>
<p>SallyNYU : You didnt understand. Info how much is average GPA of accepted tranfers is IRRELEVANT to me if I dont know what 3.9 GPA from CC means. </p>
<p>If 3.9 in CC is not by far hard to get as 3.6 in medical school, which IS MY BELIEF, than I hope they (admissions commitee) are taking that into consideration!</p>
<p>If your current program is an undergraduate university program (in the US, medical schools are graduate programs that people attend after obtaining an undergraduate degree), and you are looking to transfer to an American undergraduate program, you probably should be comparing yourself to other transfers from four-year universities. Whether a 3.6 in your current program would be sufficient for transfer to the university of your choice really depends on the university.</p>
<p>I would imagine there is a bi-modal distribution of grades in many 2-year (CC) programs. People who are planning to complete two years and then transfer to a 4-year program often are very motivated and capable and do very well. The overall mean GPA for the whole college would really have no meaning or relevance.</p>
<p>but do only people with 3.8 >> GPA from HS are capable of getting 3.9 in CC? (I mean, generally, someone can be very bright and have 3.5 or 3.2 in HS, and then excell in CC, but i am talking in general) to get impression how hard it is</p>
<p>I am currently in GRADUATE program, but we dont have mid-step which is UNDERGRAD, it’s directly grad degree of 6 yrs. So i am on 3rd year, passed all pre-med courses and many med courses like anatomy clinical anatomy, physiology,… all of them are part of medicine grad school in us.</p>
<p>i am comparing myself to people from CC with 3.9 which means i am worse, this is why i am asking is 3.9 easy to get at CC if you try.</p>
<p>bc no matter how much you try 3.9 is veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery hard to get in med school. maybe 2% get 3.9.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/833258-can-i-average-my-overall-gpa-between-different-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/833258-can-i-average-my-overall-gpa-between-different-colleges.html</a></p>
<p>THIS is what I am talking about!! his GPA dropped from 3.9 to 2.4 WTH!!! </p>
<p>everybody from CC who is trying to tranfer seems to have 3.9</p>
<p>I guess I should ask transferred students how much did their gpa drop after transferring.</p>
<p>silliness -</p>
<p>The student in the link in #16 transferred from a community college to a very demanding engineering program. Some of those bad grades were reported as coming from “weed out” courses that normally are failed by students who don’t have the background, study skills, and drive required to survive an engineering program. A 2.4 in the first (or even second) year of engineering is very common. Almost every single engineer I have ever known had to repeat at least one course from the first two years of college because he/she failed it. Unless you are planning to pursue an engineering program, this example is not meaningful for you.</p>
<p>it is because i am in a med school and here average GPA of my SCHOOL is 2,6, so i guess med school is just as difficult as engineering, and CC’s 3.9 seems too overblown if he couldnt keep it up
too overblown comparring with med school and engineering…</p>
<p>silliness,</p>
<p>I dont think anyone knows what the heck you want to know! haha You keeping putting down everyone that attempts to answe your question. This discussion has become very redundant and basic. Let me keep it simple for you… a 3.9 is NOT a normal GPA. GPAs in the US are out of 4.0. Most students with an AA/AS degree from a CC with a GPA of 3.0-3.2 or higher will be able to transfer to a 4 year program. I am not sure why you are comparing yourself to US CC grades if you state you are in a 6 yr medical program. Why do you care what an average US CC GPA is, if your in a program already? I dont get it.</p>
I totally agree with you I have made the same decision as you except after high school I took a full time job as a plumber to pay for school so I can live at home make a good wage and go to school at the same time community college is the best!!!