Summer Classes at Community Colleges

johnalport
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:17:54 +0000

@ VentureMan — Great question. For me, I wouldn’t assume that they’d let me use a community college ‘A’ to overide a MAT 2A ‘D’ unless I had it in writing in advance from the dean of my college or the registrar or somebody high up. Also, my understanding is that retaking a course for a higher grade replaces the old grade with the new grade in your GPA, but the old grade does stay on the transcript. I might be wrong on this.

@Jbourne’s comment about what happens to the CC grade after it gets to Davis, I have a comment/question? He’s right; the units just show as units on my transcript. But the course information must, I hope, be stored somewhere else at Davis. I’m a first year. All my previous CC stuff (and AP scores) were available by name and course number through ‘MyAdmissions’ on a page called “Official Credit and Examination Summary”. I printed it out last November because at the bottom of the page it states “We suggest that you print this credit summary for your personal records as your credit summary will not be available online after December 2, 2011.”
I would hope it’s always available through the registrar because we have to rely upon the names and transferability of the courses — not just for units — but for using the course towards a major and for GE (like writing experience or oral literacy, etc). Somehow the system must work because almost half of graduates transferred from CC’s in the first place, but I’m going to do a little checking.