GPA Effects at University

[mitrieD]

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For those of you who transferred to a university from community college, what effect did it bring to your GPA? Raise? Lower? Same?

 

[slm266]

For those of you who transferred to a university from community college, what effect did it bring to your GPA? Raise? Lower? Same?

It is irrelevant bc the GPA that dental schools look at is not calculated by the University you attend but the accumulation of every college credit you have received. You will submit both transcripts and input every grade you've ever received.

 

[mitrieD]

I was wondering not in terms of how dental schools see it, but just based on the difficulty difference.

 

[slm266]

I was wondering not in terms of how dental schools see it, but just based on the difficulty difference.

Well GPA and course difficulty are 2 very different things. Most likely you will see an increase in difficulty and decrease in GPA if you continue with the same effort necessary to get by at CC.

 

[UFRalo]

^ This is definitely true. I transferred, got between a 2.5 and a 2.9 for a year and then got around 3.8 for 2 more years. It can be done, but don't think you can just walk in and rock all your classes with the effort required for CC. I took ~24 credits a semester at my CC and got a 4.0, then took 18 at my university. Bad idea. Finding that balance in your coursework is key. If you know you have a killer class in the Fall, see if it's offered in the Spring with an easier professor. Take a few easy courses and a few difficult ones. I found adding sophomore level social science courses to be both interesting and a good counter to my upper level bio classes.

 

[John Durian]

It can be done, but don't think you can just walk in and rock all your classes with the effort required for CC.

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[yappy]

I went from CC to University:

GPA: 3.1 CC --> 3.85 University (UC system).

Most my classes at the cc were taught by adjunct-moon-lighting University profs. If you go to a good CC the classes you were in (100-200lv) will most likely be the same difficulty as the university you're transfering into. Maybe harder; in my experience we got the same tests just not the curve.

The large GPA jump was b/c I had only 1 science class in HS - biology my 10th grade year. Therefore, all the science classes were new to me & I didn't know how to study very well. By the time I was at the university I had taken gen chem and gen bio. My work level and study skills had increased and I was able to get a higher GPA.

 

[Blue87Fiero]

I had a 3.5 at my cc and have a 3.9 at the university right now. I study a lot more now then when the cc.

 

[scazi88]

I transferred from a CC to a university and found it much, much harder, and I'm not a slacker, never late to a single class or missed a HW in my entire life but my year at the university killed my gpa...to a very bad point....its not easier, as some might think
Good luck!

 

[mitrieD]

Did you switch to a quarter system? Did you take more units than before?

 

[Blue87Fiero]

I just want to clarify that the university is harder I slacked a ton at the cc. I did a lot of dumb things, I could have gotten a 4.0 if I would have put in half the effort I am now.

 

[scazi88]

Did you switch to a quarter system? Did you take more units than before?

Not sure what you mean by a quarter system, but the first semester, I didn't--I took the usual 4 science classes...and the second semester I took 5 sciences and still didn't do so hot.....it hurt my grades badly.

 

[John Durian]

Not sure what you mean by a quarter system, but the first semester, I didn't--I took the usual 4 science classes...and the second semester I took 5 sciences and still didn't do so hot.....it hurt my grades badly.

Quarter system = 10 weeks of classes. Semester system = 15-16 weeks of classes.