C in a dual enrollment Calc 2 class that isn't on my HS transcript. do i have to report it on UC and common app?
Took Calc 2 at the community college this past summer through dual enrollment and got a C (the prof was brutal but whatever, that's on me). It is NOT on my high school transcript, I checked with the registrar.
I'm applying to the UCs plus like 8 Common App schools. Both apps have a section for college classes. If I just leave it off, would anyone know? The CC would have to send its own transcript right? I really don't want a C sitting next to a 4.0.
For context I'm applying as a math major so this is literally the one class that matters most for my major. Which is why I'm panicking.
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Report it. This is one of the clearest rules in the whole process.
The UC application requires you to list all college courses you have taken, and the Common App asks for every college where you took a course for credit. Leaving one off is not "not mentioning" something optional. It is an incomplete answer to a required question.
How it would surface:
- Admitted students are generally required to send official transcripts from every college they attended. The community college record exists whether or not your high school shows it.
- When you enroll, the class shows up in credit evaluations, and later in transfer or graduate applications that ask for every institution.
- UC states that leaving out required information can lead to an admission being withdrawn, including after you have started.So the realistic choice is not "C vs no C." It is "a C they see now with context" vs "a C they find later attached to an omission."
What actually helps:
1. List it exactly as graded.
2. If there was context (first college class, a job, a family situation that summer), give it two or three plain sentences in Additional Comments on the UC app or Additional Information on the Common App.
3. Show the upward line: strong grades in your senior math, a good AP Calc score if you have one.A C in Calc 2 taken as a high schooler, in a class most of your classmates never attempted, is a footnote. Hiding it turns it into the headline.
On the UC side: UC-transferable college courses do count in the UC GPA calculation, so it will move that number a little. A little is all it is.