Tricky college credit situation?

Question

I have acquired about 20 college credits at an in-state public university (school A), where I had a sub-par GPA( 2.8 ) and I plan on transferring to a Community College and going for a half year and then enrolling a different in-state public university (school B). The policy of the Community College is to accept credits above a 2.0 average but only count grades acquired at the Community College into GPA. . After that half year (+summer courses) I will enroll in a Biomedical program at School B.

This is where it gets tricky, the only Medical School in state is at school A, so my question is, though through transferring my GPA would be reset and should allow me to be accepted into school A's medical school, would my previous grades at school A have any ill effect on my application, though they should be (at least paper-wise) nullified when it comes to my true overall GPA? It is my understanding medical schools are more separate from the other colleges, but looking for some advice.

Answer 1

There is no way you will be able to weasel out of the fact that you got bad grades.

When you apply to med school they will require you to submit the transcript of ALL undergraduate courses. You will have to send them transcripts from each school you attended. If you only send them a transcript from your last school they will see on it that you transferred credits. So then they will want the original transcript from the school where you originally took the course.

They are going to recalculate your GPA based ont he courses that they consider important. So if you got A+ in basketweaving, they are not going to include that A+, but if you got C at your original school in Chemistry, then that C will be counted.

You true overall GPA is calculated from the original grades for all the relevant courses as you originally took them.

You might have screwed yourself over by transferring. At some schools if you take a course over and do better, the original grade is erased. You might have been able to stay at your original school and upgrade your GPA but after you transferred then you cant do that.

There is no way to get around the med school admissions guys, they have seen it all.

Answer 2

That is tricky. If I understand you correctly, it doesn't matter what credits the CC accepts because you will not be graduating from there. Also once you start attending school B, you will get a clean slate so none of your grades at school A and CC will matter because only the credit will transfer over, not your grades.

However, when you apply to medical schools, it's a different story. I am assuming that school A is a 4-year university. They will probably count those grades, espcially that they have a record of your attendance. But medical schools have their own way of calcuating the overall GPA so you should really ask them to be sure. Since they will have copies of all your transcripts, they will see your performance at school A regardless of what they do with the GPA. But since you only have 20 units from school A, it should not hurt you much at all if you start getting A's in your classes.