Question about Weird Transcript Discrepancy

[jj_Sharp2]

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Just remembered that the summer between my senior year high school and freshman year in college I decided to take a 1 month 4-credit chemistry course at a local CC. The reason I did so was b/c I did not take AP Chem in HS and I wanted a primer for the notoriously hard course at my college. I got an A in the course at the CC, but I got A-/B+'s in chem 1 & 2 at college (ivy undergrad) the following year.

I'm wondering if this is going to look weird, especially b/c it'll look like I was taking chemistry twice and the second time I did not get an A (albeit my actual undergrad was much harder than a community college...). Should I mention somewhere on my app why I took this course? For the reasons that I had not taken anything more than sophomore year chemistry and I wanted to make sure I was prepared going in?

Or, am I just overthinking this? I realized this might be a good thing b/c it's 4 credits of a 4.0 that are being factored into my overall GPA. I'm not looking for advice as to what to do since I know I'm required to submit all transcripts; just want to know how this will affect me.

Any and all insight appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Catalystik]

Just remembered that the summer between my senior year high school and freshman year in college I decided to take a 1 month 4-credit chemistry course at a local CC. The reason I did so was b/c I did not take AP Chem in HS and I wanted a primer for the notoriously hard course at my college. I got an A in the course at the CC, but I got A-/B+'s in chem 1 & 2 at college (ivy undergrad) the following year.

I'm wondering if this is going to look weird, especially b/c it'll look like I was taking chemistry twice and the second time I did not get an A (albeit my actual undergrad was much harder than a community college...). Should I mention somewhere on my app why I took this course? For the reasons that I had not taken anything more than sophomore year chemistry and I wanted to make sure I was prepared going in?

Or, am I just overthinking this? I realized this might be a good thing b/c it's 4 credits of a 4.0 that are being factored into my overall GPA. I'm not looking for advice as to what to do since I know I'm required to submit all transcripts; just want to know how this will affect me.

Any and all insight appreciated. Thanks!

There is no reason to bring it up on the application.

 

[jj_Sharp2]

Thanks! @gonnif @Catalystik I tend to do that.

Just to be clear - by no mentioning it you mean not making a note of it, but I still need to submit the grades/transcript, correct?

 

[doc05]

Just remembered that the summer between my senior year high school and freshman year in college I decided to take a 1 month 4-credit chemistry course at a local CC. The reason I did so was b/c I did not take AP Chem in HS and I wanted a primer for the notoriously hard course at my college. I got an A in the course at the CC, but I got A-/B+'s in chem 1 & 2 at college (ivy undergrad) the following year.

I'm wondering if this is going to look weird, especially b/c it'll look like I was taking chemistry twice and the second time I did not get an A (albeit my actual undergrad was much harder than a community college...). Should I mention somewhere on my app why I took this course? For the reasons that I had not taken anything more than sophomore year chemistry and I wanted to make sure I was prepared going in?

Or, am I just overthinking this? I realized this might be a good thing b/c it's 4 credits of a 4.0 that are being factored into my overall GPA. I'm not looking for advice as to what to do since I know I'm required to submit all transcripts; just want to know how this will affect me.

Any and all insight appreciated. Thanks!

Yes, it's going to look weird, but not for the reasons you think. A "primer" for college? Mainly, it will give the impression of a typical ivy-league tool overdoing something, and padding their transcript with an easy A. I'm sure you aren't the only one.

 

[Catalystik]

Thanks! @gonnif @Catalystik Just to be clear - by no mentioning it you mean not making a note of it, but I still need to submit the grades/transcript, correct?

Correct! You'll list both classes on the application transcript and submit both original transcripts. But you won't go out of your way to explain.