<p>Quick question – I currently am about to graduate with an AS from community college. From Summer 2014 to Spring 2015 will be used to finish up transferable classes to be accepted to UCSD in Fall 2015 in the impacted major of Computer Science. </p>
<p>What I would like to know is what classes will be used to determine my GPA for possible admittance? I have been to college off and on the last 15 years. My transcript has a bunch of W’s and a few F’s. However, taking into account just the GE courses and my major transfer courses, my GPA is in the 3.7-3.9 range.</p>
<p>I guess I’m just wondering if all the other crap on my transcript will be a problem. From 1997 to 2006, my transcript is maybe 1.83 GPA. I stopped going to school until recently (Fall 2013). From that point forward my GPA has been essentially 3.9.</p>
<p>Long question short… Am I getting into UCSD?</p>
<p>Is Academic Renewal an option for you? It could take care of some of those F’s.
But generally speaking, UC’s factor in all coursework that is UC-transferable (it should say somewhere on your schools catalog or something)</p>
<p>According to my CC, academic Renewal is not an option unless it prevents the student from having the minimum GPA to graduate. For my CC, that is 2.0. After running off 9 classes with 8 A’s and 1 B, I have already raised my GPA past that point.</p>
<p>Can you retake any of the classes you got Ds or Fs at the school where you received the grades? If so, then the higher grade is generally replaced by the new one.</p>
<p>So to give you an idea I have 9 F’s. Of these 8 are for CIS classes… That do NOT transfer. That last F is for PreCalculus… However, later I took two classes that make up that one class: College Algebra and Trig, and passed both with B’s.</p>
<p>If you are wondering my transcript also shows 22 W’s… But to reiterate, all of this was in 2006 and earlier. I took a 7 year break because I knew I wasn’t ready. Since I got back, I’ve been a man possessed: full time student and I work full time, plus I’m married with kids. I guess I’ve just found how to manage now that I’m older.</p>
<p>Any opinions or thoughts are appreciated. I won’t take anything personally, I just want some dialogue on if I can make it to UCSD in Fall 2015. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>UCs don’t care about Ws. You need to retake precalc with a C or better so that the UCs will not factor that F into your gpa. As for your odds, who knows CS is impacted. </p>
<p>As stated before the algebra + trig is the equivalent of that failed PreCalculus class. I guess I can investigate and see if my CC will fix that for me.</p>
<p>Any other opinions? All are welcomed.</p>
<p>Algebra and Trig are both lower tier math classes than pre-calc. </p>
<p>I promise you that how I described it (for my CC at least) is how it is setup. Semantics aside, I’m not worried about that (already scheduled for Calculus I & II for this summer)</p>
<p>If your CC will wipe out your precal F with the math you have taken, great. Otherwise, you will have to retake Precal in order for the F to not be factored into your GPA. Are the F’s you received prior to 2006 from your current community college? If not, you can petition the other colleges directly for academic renewal. You should double-check your current community college’s academic renewal policy in the catalog. Most community colleges offer several ways of renewal: retaking the class for a higher grade, earning a 3.0 or higher after 3 years have passed since sub-par grades, petitioning the academic review committee, etc. Are you attending a community college in the San Diego area? </p>
<p>I have been to 6 different community colleges and have done academic renewals at 3 of them. Each of them had a different process. I also had over 20 W’s and I got into UCSD (in addition to UCI and UCLA). </p>
<p>Yeah, I go to Cuyamaca & Grossmont. In regards to the F’s received, yes they are from my current CC. If they let me, I’d be able do an Academic Renewal, I could remove up to 4 F’s in two different semesters (the maximum I believe you can do are two semesters). I’m just hoping that since CIS doesn’t transfer, those F’s won’t be looked at that closely…</p>
<p>They will count everything unless you retake the class and get a new grade. You should be able to retake it at your current school, as long as it’s obviously the same course. I did that with stats and didn’t have a problem. The W’s aren’t a big deal. Try to retake courses and bring your overall GPA up, but know that they put a lot more weight on recent coursework if your GPA is a little lower than other applicants. It sounds like you’re on the right track, keep getting A’s and you should be able to bring it up. At UCSD’s orientation they told us that the average GPA for accepted transfers was 3.7 this year, just so you know what you should be aiming for. </p>
<p>Yeah, I was afraid you’d say that. Some of those classes that I got F’s in aren’t even offered anymore at my CC, so I’m not too sure what I could do. But considering that I am looking at completing 36 units over the summer, fall, and spring, I literally don’t have any time to go back and take those classes again even if I wanted to. I guess I’m just hoping that they’ll look at those grades as been over 7 years old and not indicative of my current output.</p>
<p>You’ll want to address it in either your personal statement, or the part in the app that asks if there’s anything else you want them to know that’s not covered elsewhere. </p>
<p>I had a similar situation in that I had a few bad grades from 15 yrs ago pull down my GPA. I had 2 Fs- 1 I retook and hit an A and the other one stands. I also had 1 C, which you can’t do anything about. </p>
<p>In that supplemental section I just basically pointed out why my GPA was lowered. I didn’t want to rely on them figuring that out, so I specifically told them. </p>
<p>@kiddsupreme It sounds like you confused Grossmont’s grade forgiveness policy with their academic renewal policy. You qualify to have two semesters of substandard grades removed. Go to admissions and file a petition for academic renewal. It is that easy. 
You can choose which semesters you would like to have removed. Choose the semesters with the most units of sub-standard grades. When you fill out your UCSD application, you will put AR (academic renewal) when reporting the classes instead of the grade you received and it will not be factored into your GPA.</p>
<p>Oh I see. Maybe I have confused the two. Well considering I have to go there tomorrow to pick up the cap and gown for my commencement next week, I guess I can swing by and file an AR as you stated. Thanks for the heads up knhofto, I appreciate it. </p>
<p>So I did a bit more digging, and I spoke with the Admissions office at UCSD. It looks like if a class does not have an equivalent (does not articulate from the CC to UC), that class will not be considered in the calculation of incoming GPA. Considering that a majority of the F’s I received were in CIS courses that aren’t offered at UCSD, I now have a clear path to the semesters to request AR. If I can complete these last 9 classes with an A, I can get my GPA up to a 3.5 overall. Hopefully that will be good enough to be accepted as a transfer. What do you think?</p>
<p>What you have to do is contact the CC back from 2006 and request academic renewal. No one has any idea what their policy is. It goes through them. My hunch (although I could be wrong) is they see your current GPA, you’re talking about 7-8 years ago, all things being equal, they’ll grant you AR. However, only that CC can answer it.</p>
<p>Whether they count the classes or not, an AR is gonna look a whole lot better than 22 Fs. (WaIt! You might not be the person who has 22 Fs. 
) Either way AR just looks better if you can swing it. It’s a simple phone call and a form to fill out.</p>