Will the grades from my old school stick with me? Or start over?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Ok, I have a question that hopefully someone can answer because it has been bugging me for the last couple of days…and I don’t really want to bother admissions with this question because I figured they are already so busy as it is.</p>

<p>I went to Sonoma State University my first freshmen semester and got horrible grades. Then left the school because I hated it and went to community college for 2.5 years and got good grades. Now, I will be attending UCSD in the fall and I was wondering if my GPA starts over there? Or will SSU grades still stick with me?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Once you get to the UC, your GPA starts all over. </p>

<p>However if you plan on going to into Graduate School/Professional School just note that they will take note of all of your grades!</p>

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<p>^ shes right!!!</p>

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<p>Okay, thanks guys!! I’m glad it starts over but I am kind of screwed for grad school :(</p>

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<p>they also look at repeated grades, just a heads up.</p>

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<p>they put more weight on upper division work and if you have a legit reason for doing bad then you have a shot. </p>

<p>A high mcat/gmat/lsat score will mean more than 1st/2nd year g.e classes</p>

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<p>Yikes! Well, grad school is probably the best thing for my future career…but I just don’t know if I will have it in me to do any more school after my bachelors!! lol I am already exhausted! We’ll see though…</p>

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<p>If you plan on getting a job period all of your grades will be looked at! (unless, in some cases actually, they don’t ask for your gpa upon getting interviewed).
But yeah, you didn’t do two years of classes for nothing! Like, if you put on your resume “3.5cumu gpa from XXXX” and that’s only the 1.5/2 years at the finall school you were at, that’d be denying all the work you did before :-&lt;/p>

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<p>yeah but upward trends always look really good to grad school and jobs. It doesn’t make up completely but I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Especially is you are doing well now, just keep it up and enjoy the rest of your college experience.</p>

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<p>So if you want to get valedictorian or something, do they THEN consider your Community College GPA?? OR do they only look at your UC one?</p>

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<p>there is no such thing as “valedictorian” </p>

<p>They won’t consider your C.C gpa for the purposes of honors</p>

<p>[College</a> Policies-Honors](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/collegepolicies/honors.html]College”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/collegepolicies/honors.html)</p>

<p>[UCLA</a> Schedule of Classes: Academic Policies](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/policy.htm]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/policy.htm)</p>

<p>it’s different for every schools for summa cum laude
usually 3.9+ </p>

<p>and requires different units at each schools at uci it’s 72 units so even if you transfer with 105 you still need 180 for graduation so it’s not bad</p>

<p>UCLA requires 90 units to qualify so you need to take more than what you need to graduate</p>

<p>UCB is 54 units only i think so np there. </p>

<p>So if you go into those schools and get a 4.0 you have a easier time getting summa cum laude than those that went to GPA buster classes</p>

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<p>@peter thanks alot for that info!</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/713219-i-messed-up-my-first-year-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/713219-i-messed-up-my-first-year-3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Do CSU school’s also reset your GPA upon transfer?</p>