<p>hi,
i noticed many people have 3.9 or 4.0 in CC… i am wondering, after tranferring to 4 year uni, how much did your GPA drop?</p>
<p>if you look individually grades from new uni</p>
<p>for ex.
you had 10 courses in CC, got 3.9
and then in college u have new 10 courses so i want to know how much is your GPA of new ones. </p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>Can’t tell my experience as I haven’t transferred but a person I know went from a community college to UW-Madison, GPA went from a 4.0 to 3.4, he said it is very tough.</p>
<p>yeah. i thought so 
thanks for reply
hope some other people will reply too</p>
<p>I transfered to a ‘top 100’
Most of the classes I took were no harder… (ONE was harder).
My gpa went up after transferring and I crushed all the classes.</p>
<p>I transfered again to michigan engineering and GPA dropped quite a bit.</p>
<p>My GPA was a 3.8 my first year of cc but by the time I graduated I had a 3.2. When I transferred I maintained a 3.0 as a overall gpa. My 4 year college gpa was a 2.6 at best? Yes those classes where hard.</p>
<p>What universities did you all transfer to?</p>
<p>Way to necro the thread.</p>
<p>I don’t buy the assumption that your grades have to drop because 4 year schools are hard and cc’s are easy. A more likely explanation is that many students may not have pushed themselves in cc before transferring to the real program. At least with engineering, I am constantly amazed people transfer with only precalc and maybe a physics course under their belt. Then they get surprised that diffeq and junior level engineering classes are hard.</p>
<p>I digress, I went to a top CC for engineering, graduated with 70 credits, or 23 classes, with a 4.0. Now I go to a top ten aerospace program and have completed 32 credits, or 12 classes, with a 4.0.</p>
<p>I have 48 credits, or 16 classes to go and I expect to average better than a 3.6. I would say 4.0 no problem, but I’m taking more difficult classes than even my standard curriculum offers. If my cc could have offered comparable electives outside the normal courses I’m sure I wouldn’t have finished with straight A’s there either.</p>
<p>I don’t buy the assumption that CCs are easy. </p>
<p>After the first two years you start majoring. The Major classes might be a bit tougher be it CC or a university. In other words I don’t think it’s the University. It’s the classes</p>
<p>That’s exactly it. There are tons of university students that finish their first couple years with a 4.0…and then they get to the real stuff. When you hit upper level classes, it’s going to get a whole lot harder. Transfer students are typically coming in after completing these same lower level courses, which is why their GPA drops after transferring. </p>
<p>I’m inclined to think that CCs are sometimes better than universities in some respects for the lower level classes. I’m in an introductory differential equations course, and physics II right now. If I was at a big university taking these classes, I’d be in a giant lecture hall with 100+ students. My classes at my CC have about 13 students in each. There’s a whole lot more 1 on 1 contact with the professors, who are very qualified to be teaching the material. </p>
<p>My physics professor has a bachelors from Northwestern, a PhD from the University of Chicago, and he’s got numerous published papers on black holes and quantum cosmology…he’s taught at several 4 year universities, and he only came back here because he’s from the area and he missed the small town life. He’s no less qualified than most professors at big universities. </p>
<p>It all depends on the individual professor.</p>
<p>Across the United States there are 1,655 community colleges. Of these, 1,047 are public institutions and 415 private. (Digest of Education Statistics, 2001,
And there are approx 2400 4 year degree granting colleges.</p>
<p>In CC, we are mostly concentrate on about 1-200 more recognizable 4 year institutions, which will have better instructors in general than any garden variety Community Colleges. Again, the chances to get a more difficult class in those 1-200 better 4 year institutions are greater.</p>