Bad GPA 1st Comm College / Great GPA 2nd Comm College

Transfer Students
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<p>Hello all, hopefully some of you can help with this question.</p>

<p>I have attended my first community college back in Fall 2006-Spring 2008, when I was still an International F-1 Student, with the purpose of attending the requirements of Homeland Security to be legal in the country (Attend school full-time). </p>

<p>Classes I’ve taken back then were Music and Economics. My Cumulative GPA: 2.74</p>

<p>Now 4 years later, now as a Permanent Resident, I’m attending a new community college, working on my GED requirements to hopefully transfer to the UC System in a Life Sciences Major (Neuroscience or Molecular Biology). My current GPA is a 3.89.</p>

<p>I would like to know from you if my old GPA will haunt me forever in my academic life or if for transfer purposes only my current GPA will be looked at.</p>

<p>Also my ultimate goal is to be in Medical School. How would that first GPA affect my chances of being admitted, even though the classes I took had nothing to do with this field at all.</p>

<p>Thank you all in advance.</p>

<p>Joe</p>

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<p>Lots of us have old bad transcripts. Yes they do follow us for life, but the good news is that in almost every case the new good transcript is weighted more heavily than an old bad one when our records are evaluated.</p>

<p>For advice specific to the California system, your best advice is probably to be had at your own CC. Stop by the transfer advisor’s office and talk with that person about your situation and your long-term goals.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best!</p>

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<p>For allopathic (MD) med school admissions, ALL college coursework is calculated into your gpa, even if classes were taken in HS and even if the classes were retaken for a higher grade.</p>

<p>For osteopathic (DO) med school admissions, all of your grades are seen, but they use grade replacement for gpa calculation (there may be some schools that are exceptions).</p>