I am applying to some four year colleges as a transfer student after a pretty crappy year at my local community college. I read that colleges will look at your high school grades and you SAT scores if your college work isn’t desirable. So how much will my poor freshman year hurt me if I have a good high school gpa (B average) and high sat test scores? One of my teachers said it would also be a good idea to write an essay about what my life has been like since graduating college and how my new medical problems (I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and a struggle with depression) that made my first year hard but overcome it and learned to live the healthiest life I can.
They’ll look at your high school work if you don’t have much college work to go off of, but they’re not going to overlook bad college grades. They’re admitting you to do college work, not high school. Why can’t you stay at the CC and prove that you can handle college-level work?
It really depends which schools you are applying and how they review transfer applicants. I agree you should stay at your CC and try to bump up your grades before trying to transfer. Colleges will want to see that you can succeed in a college setting more than HS so it is to your benefit to do well at your CC.