I've finished my junior year in university, and currently have a 3.7, which is higher than my final gpa at community college (before I transferred in). Will this send up red flags? Don't get me wrong, I worked 10x as hard in the past year after I transferred, I simply wasn't motivated at CC and the lower gpa was largely due to 1 bad semester.
If you use LSDAS' policy of counting both grades for gpa calculation when a student repeats a course they failed, my community college gpa would be around a 3.4. On the other hand, both my community college and the university I transferred to have a policy that replaces the old grade with the new one when a student repeats the course, so my actual CC gpa as it appears on the transcript is a 3.6, which is not so different from my current uni gpa.
Will I have to explain this somehow, or will they just assume an upward trend due to greater effort?
