community college grades matter?

Bigredmed
Sun, 14 May 2006 12:13:40 +0000

Billybob, it won’t look strange. More than likely your credit (if it transfers) will put you past the intro bio course you would have taken, so you’d just be in the next couse of the bio sequence. And it likely won’t be your last bio course either.

APs and how they will factor in to your GPA is dependent on which schools you go to. My uni used AP as an exemption from that class. You got the credit hours for free, but no grade attached. So AP did not affect my GPA. However, I know my friends at KU who scored a 4 on the Language AP got credit and grades (A in the comp I and B in comp II), and this did affect their GPA. So then it became a question of if they wanted to actually use the credit and if they thought they could get an A in comp II. Some cared, most didn’t.

Similar thing with CC classes and the dual enrollment, it will depend on the school you go to for college. My CC credit was not taken for a grade by my university and so no damage to my GPA there - just affected on my AMCAS.

The safest thing you can do is just send everything in and let AMCAS sort it out. It is likely not to play as large as role on your GPA as you expect (unless you were to really bomb it). That way you don’t have to worry about what to send in, what not to send in, nor run the risk of committing fraud and placing your acceptance at risk.