I was born and grew up there until I was 10 but now I live with my mom in Panama. We still have a few family members there. I want to study economics and political science. Due to my mental health, my family prefers if I stay somewhere relatively close. I studied music (don’t ask why) during this year’s spring semester at MDC so I have 1/3 of year there done. If I went back now for the rest of the year, would I be able to get in-state tuition or would it be obvious that I’m only doing it for the tuition as I don’t plan to stay in Florida afterwards?
It’s whatever appears on your transcript .Usually transcripts only have final grades. Some might show semester grades. It’s rare that they will show quarter grades. It’s really a question for your GC.
I mean, online it usually says college requires 3.8 gpa. Where is this 3.8 gpa coming from?
Some schools will list how they determine their GPA for admission purposes and many do not. You should go by your HS transcript as stated above and use the unweighted GPA unless specifically noted by a college. Do you have an example?
I am most familiar with the California UC’s and Cal States which specifically state they use only 10-11th grades for the a-g course requirements (core courses) when calculating their GPA and each semester of weighted classes (their definition of which classes are weighted) will get an extra honors point.
Again, ask your GC, GPA is usually calculated based upon the final grade in the class, not upon the individual quarters. So if you get a B in the first quarter, but the final grade is an A, usually the B will not be part of the GPA.
I was understanding the question as this: when you are applying, you haven’t received your final senior grades, so is it GPA through 1st semester senior year or is it through grade 11? I am curious too.
“I was understanding the question as this: when you are applying, you haven’t received your final senior grades, so is it GPA through 1st semester senior year or is it through grade 11? I am curious too.”
All the schools DS 19 applied to RD required a midyear report - 1st and 2nd quarter grades (which is basically 1st semester). The midyear report at his HS updates the cumulative weighted and unweighted GPA. Also, it’s not uncommon for ED schools to request 1st quarter grades.
UC and CSU aside, which only considers 10th and 11th, most other colleges for Regular Decision look at through 1st semester senior year and most colleges for ED/EA only see through 11th, although some may ask for Q1 grades. Regardless, most colleges will also require a final transcript. Bottom line - it depends.
Early application and admission to a rolling admission school may also have only through end of 11th grade high school records.
Regardless of what high school records are available for the admissions decision, you will report in-progress and planned 12th grade course work. Admission offers will also be conditional on completing that course work with high enough grades/GPA, so avoid slacking off too much.
Some colleges will also request that you send a final transcript after being admitted. (This generates many questions from students concerned that their acceptances will be rescinded due to senioritis slacking and poor final grades. )
At my kids’ public HS there weren’t any “semester” or “final” grades, just the grades from each quarter. Their transcripts show all of their quarter grades, including pluses and minuses, but no final grades. Their cumulative GPA’s were also shown, both in weighted and unweighted format.
This may be “unusual” or “rare”; I don’t know. What I do know for certain is what @skieurope first wrote, “It’s whatever appears on your transcript.” That’s where you need to look.
If you are on a semester system, the transcript provided to colleges will usually show end of semester grades; if on a quarter system, it will show end of quarter rates, and GPA provided may be weighted or both weighted and unweighted. As to which grades are used for determining admission, it varies. Many colleges, including many public universities, will make decisions based on grades through junior year, others base on grades through first semester senior year. Moreover, many have two phases, early action or early decision and regular admission, with regular admission depending on grades through first semester senior year and early action and early decision depending on grades through junior year because decisions are issued earlier, e.g., by mid-December. As noted, some colleges like the UCs, which use grades through junior year, determine applicable GPA used for admission based on sophomore and junior year grades.
Also, those GPA’s used are not necessarily those provided by the high school. If the high school counted classes like health, word processing, PE, or vocational courses toward the GPA, the GPA will likely be recalculated to exclude those. Moreover, the college may not use the weighting system that the high school used for GPA.
Colleges do use final grades after senior year to determine if an admission decision previously given should be withdrawn.
The GPA’s you find in various places showing the middle 50% ranges or averages for the freshman class are usually not the GPA’s relied on to decide admission. Those GPA’s are typically stated to be the ranges for the freshman who actually enrolled at the college and are based on the final transcripts received after completion of high school. Depending on college, those may be stated as based on the weighted GPÅ’s of the enrolled freshman or unweighted. Those middle 50% ranges you see for enrolled students can be different from the middle 50% GPA’s of those actually admitted, both because the final senior year GPAs may differ from earlier ones actually used to determine admission, and because the college may have admitted many with high GPA’s who decided to attend elsewhere, i.e., the admission middle 50% range can actually be higher than the middle 50% ranges you see published for those who actually enrolled.
Would you like Utah better than Florida? You would need to pay out of state costs the first year, but could probably gain instate status for subsequent years.
But you will need a whole new winter wardrobe.
How much can you pay for college each year?
What do you want to major in? All I get from your post is you want to go to college and you have an AA.
If you lived in Florida and you left, the one year clock starts when you return
You will have to include your transcript for any courses that you took at Miami Dade
@thumper1 I’ll have to ask him. I would like Utah better. @“Erin’s Dad” I don’t really know what to major in but I feel like it should be computer science. @sybbie719 why would the clock reset? AFAIK the requirement is to live in Florida for most of the year so if I go back now then I’d have been there for most of this year. I’m fine including my transcript. I got all As.
Check the criteria for instate establishment. In most states, it’s that you have resided in the state for 12 months prior to your enrollment. If you left Florida…the time you were away would not count in that 12 months.
As a 24 year old, I believe you would be establishing your own residency in Florida for both admissions and financial aid purposes. So YOU would need to reside in FL for 12 months prior to your enrollment there.
It seems to me that you are not a resident of Florida at this time…you are a resident of Panama.
@thumper1 also, at MDC, we were paying about 4k for the term. That’s a lot for me, and in-state there is like 1k per semester. Is there anything comparable in-state anywhere in the country?
You are looking for instate tuition at $2000 a year? Is that what you are asking?
For a four year college…I don’t think that is a realistic expectation.
@thumper1 yes but now I see that’s ridiculous. MDC is a four-year school though; it has some bachelor’s degrees. What I’ll have to do is work for a year to establish residency. I just have to see what state. Utah’s not a bad option.